I pretty much fell in love with legolas’ family so of course I had to try sketching them! I’ve always head cannoned that elves don’t actually have pupils, they just have spots of color that zoom down to pin points when they’re sleeping. Your lovely writing made me headcanon that the votes ended up inheriting kind of wavy wild hair from their mother.

ME REACTING: HOLY HECK THIS IS AMAZING!! I love your style, how flowing and graceful and art-nouveau-y and elvish your lines are! I can see the personalities just shining out of each of them, and you’ve chosen their outfits SO perfectly (oh Laerophen, you reserved and high-collared beanpole you!!!) – I love enigmatic, stately Thranduil, and Laindawar’s armour and his challenging expression, and ofc Legolas isn’t paying attention, but is watching the squirrels chasing each other in the trees…!

i love it, thank you SO much ❤ it’s amazing and so are you!

csocscsirke:

i recently reread @determamfidd‘s Sansukh and it made me do the unthinkable…….. to draw elves

I AM UTTERLY IN LOVE WITH YOUR STYLE

it’s AMAZING

lkasdgfljh that trio of elven brothers – you have perfectly captured their personalities! THE HAUGHTY TERRIER, THE AWKWARD GIRAFFE AND THE DREAMER kjhfljhdgljs – and the colours! Are amazing! SO AMAZING!

nnnng that Tauriel pic, I am gonna weep holy heck, these are simply astonishing and I am so in awe of your shading and the detail in that pic and oh my starlight child oh OUCH

your style *grips face* IS AMAZING. Thank you, oh wow, thank you SO SO MUCH!

since everyone’s sharing their faves – Hrera. i have the feeling she couldve solved the whole Ring debacle in ten minutes under the right circumstances. Laerophen’s a close second for me, though

hey yeah, Laerophen!! Thanks, friend – I am glad you like him! 

(Hrera isn’t quite that badass – her brand of scolding bossiness/worry wouldn’t have worked on a Nazgul, for instance – but my word, she would have sorted Denethor out quick-smart.)

i loooooooooooooooooooooove laerophen. so much.. i need so much more starring him. help. (also your latest chapter left me in way too many tears)

I have many ideas for our bookish introvert giraffe, yes indeed! Expect more Laerophen in the Appendices, as well as in the rest of the story! THERE WILL BE MORE LAEROPHEN, YES INDEED!

(*hugs* lsjdhgfksjdh thank you, I hope you enjoyed it! I am simply so relieved to finally have the song POSTED AND DONE heheheheh, I was at the stage of fiddling with it CONSTANTLY!!)

sibling relationships are so important to me and laerophen supporting them was absolutely everything for me oh my god. but seriously the fact that both brothers developed a reformed opinion of dwarves totally independently of each other is just so MUCH? and then like. it occurs to me that gimizh probably doesn’t know about the elves sailing? he’s literally gonna be so upset about laerophen leaving forever don’t touch me. your ocs are amazing and so are you

YES YES *punches the air* YESSSSS

all three brothers do, in their own ways, come around. Each way is very different. Each is a valid way of self-examining and overcoming internalised prejudice. I am! SO! Happy that you liked that!!! SO HAPPY!

NOPE GIMIZH DOESN’T KNOW – but then, most of the Mirkwood Elves don’t sail at all 😉

(also YOU are amazing!!!)