Thread open to discussing our favorite animals in Tolkien.
My personal favorites were Shadowfax and Huron. Talk about a faithful animal. Huron was magnificent.
Summary of Huron from the encyclopedia.
The Hound of Valinor; faithful companion to Celegorm son of Fëanor until his mistreatment of Lúthien in Nargothrond, after which he helped Lúthien and Beren in the Quest of the Silmaril. He defeated Sauron at the gates of Tol-in-Gaurhoth, and slew Carcharoth in the Hunting of the Wolf.
hmm...Smaug...
and that random fox that saw the hobbit in the woods..
but seriously...the other would be Glaurung..i like dragons, and those 2 were awsome
and in my copy of the Silmarillion its Huan, not huron...
Love is a very powerful force, especially when its formed into a coherent beam of death.
Thanks Misty. I drew up a dragon pattern tonight and I am working on my Smaug. The colors might be wrong. I am going with the glass that I have on hand. Shadow will have to tell me what colors Smaug should really be.
Glaurung is in the Silmarillion. Look to the story of Turin Turambar.
yeah that sounds cool. you might want to use a picture of a chinese dragon as a template of sorts. since thats how tolkien seemed to envision the main appearence of his dragons.
Love is a very powerful force, especially when its formed into a coherent beam of death.
I used a body type like the Alan Lee and Tolkien Smaugs. I also looked at the work of one of the best glass designers in the world. I think you guys will like it. It should be done after Easter if my hands start feeling better.
The fell beast: "The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it wa a winged creature: if bird, the greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, oustayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it a gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck."
such a wonderfully lovely and happy creature don't you think?
Love is a very powerful force, especially when its formed into a coherent beam of death.
04-06-2004 02:14 AM
