Suggestion: The Passing of Arwen (Patreon)

She looks a lot like I envision Nienna, incidentally; I always had this clear image of her, a sad, mourning, graceful figure in a streaming cloak. 

I don't imagine things very clearly most of the time; sometimes, when I have a very clear idea of a character, I still don't know where I got it from. 

In the case of Nienna (and, by extension, Arwen) the realisation struck me a couple of years ago. In 1993, when I was reading the Silmarillion as excessively as I watched MTV, Take That had their hit "Babe", and in the video, there is a slender, graceful woman in mourning walking through an icy, snow-filled palace of sorts. My subconscious had plucked this woman from the video and placed her in Middle-earth, and it tooks me twenty years to realise! 

I want to make this into a full painting; can't wait to try out some Caspar David Friedrich-like colour schemes!