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WonderBroad
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Feb 28 2007, 5:19am
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Reporting to Beruthiel
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"She had nine black cats and one white, her slaves, with whom she conversed, or read their memories, setting them to discover all the dark secrets of Gondor."
Unfinished Tales
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This pencil drawing of the infamous Queen Beruthiel appeared on the cover of Mythprint in, if I recall correctly, the same year I drew it--1997.
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diedye
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Feb 28 2007, 7:30pm
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... she looks regally wicked.
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FingonOfPittsburgh
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Feb 28 2007, 9:27pm
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"She had nine black cats and one white, her slaves, with whom she conversed, or read their memories, setting them to discover all the dark secrets of Gondor."
Unfinished Tales
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This pencil drawing of the infamous Queen Beruthiel appeared on the cover of Mythprint in, if I recall correctly, the same year I drew it--1997.
This is great!!!
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter #43, to his son Michael
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linkin-artelf
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Mar 1 2007, 6:30am
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Any symbolism to the earing?
"I walk along the shore and I gaze
At the light that radiates down
Will it travel forth to you
Far across this shimmering sea?"
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WonderBroad
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Mar 1 2007, 12:45pm
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>>Any symbolism to the earing?
Not really. But the sweep of her jawline is strong that I didn't want it to take the viewer's eye right off the page. So I put in a little "stopper" to redirect things and help keep the viewer focused on what I wanted--their faces.
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Kimi
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Mar 2 2007, 6:03am
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Beruthiel has such strong features. She's somewhat androgynous, which seems to fit the character and her story.
And that's such a wonderfully feline cat! It looks enthralled by Beruthiel, and frightened of her at the same time.
I think this is my favourite so far of all your wonderful pictures.
  
Promises to Keep: a novel set in 19th Century New Zealand.
The Passing of Mistress Rose
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Beren IV
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Mar 3 2007, 3:38am
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Yes, this is also good. Bruthiel indeed looks androgenous, as Kimi says, and generally this looks right. Bruthiel does not look necessarily evil, although she does look... well she certainly could be evil.
Do you normally envision Bruthiel as wicked, or just kinda neutral?
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WonderBroad
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Mar 3 2007, 6:03pm
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Beruthiel--wouldn't want her for a friend!
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>>Do you normally envision Bruthiel as wicked, or just kinda neutral?
Based solely on what little Tolkien actually wrote about Beruthiel, she was not a nice lady, to say the least!
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