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Maedhros returns (aka Fëanorean group hug) (Patreon)

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2017-11-18 22:22:32
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I've been wrestling with several pieces - did rough sketches of Maedhros sitting with the crown in his hand and making up his mind; a very quick and quickly abandoned sketch of him being brought before Morgoth; but in the end, I returned to this one, which I actually sketched years ago, and really liked the setup. The problem was that I'd stopped at four sons, and getting seven into any picture always ends up horribly crowded. XD

I can never make up my mind whether Amrod is there or not. The story him him being burned with the ships is so poignant and I want to keep it, but then it's not *seven*. So I adopt the story for Losgar, basically, and throw it overboard whenever they need to make a magnificent seven style appearance... 

I'm going to keep this loose and zoomed out. Like a happy scene in a movie that recedes to give the characters their privacy. I think it's a very fitting feel. 

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Anjuschka

*internally screams with joy* Yes, yes, yes! :D

Ninchen

Go for the magnificent seven. That's how it should be. :D

Lintie

Ah, the family reunion! Happy Feanorians, all seven of them - pure bliss. As for Amrod, there's this fan theory of Ambarussa-as-two-souls-in-one-body, which niecely combines the two existing versions of the story. Though I admit it might be tricky to draw ;-)

Jenny Dolfen
>>8386445

I'd never heard that! It's extremely elegant though - especially as the two are never mentioned as actually separate entities while in Beleriand.

Janet John

I adore the sketch. I am not that wildly crazy about the burning with the ships story line. I didn't see that version until years after I first read The Silmarillion, so it always feels to me like blink-and-you-miss-it alternate canon. But that counts for nothing, since I like other obscure or alternate History of Middle-earth versions of the canon. But I am glad to see seven brothers reunited. I cannot wait to see the finished version of this! I think it is a terrific choice.

Yollie

Oh wow! But the idea of Maedhros with the crown in his hand is SO SO SO COOL, will you come back to that? PLEASE...

Evelyn Maire

Oh this is going to be beautiful! I love the idea of this scene. I think the good (?) thing about the "did Amrod die?" conundrum, is that depending on how you want to either paint a picture, write a fanfiction or imagine a scenario, it's up to you if you want ton include him. I agree that him dying on the ships is very poignant, but for a scene like this it makes sense to have all the brothers together again :D

Jenny Dolfen
>>8387412

There's a couple of things that the fandom collective ignores - one is that Maedhros should actually be Maedron! XD The Amrod-burned-with-the-ships, I think, was in the last volume of HoMe published, which I got around 1996, so it was years for me too. I usually accepted everything that brought new info, but the Amrod story has such large consequences for the further story that it wuold have required extensive rewriting (the same with Gil-galad as not being Fingon's son.