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Silmarillion: The Bidding of the Minstrelby ~LadyElleth

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Fantasy

For the Between the Lines Contest: [link] . I hope I'm not too late. (My apologies to the admins if I submitted this more than once - the system kept giving me error-messages for the LotRClub, so I submitted it to Elves-of-Tolkien instead. I don't know if any of them went through.)

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After casting the Silmaril into the sea, it is said that Maglor took to wandering the shores, singing in pain and regret beside the waves. It is also stated elsewhere that it was the gift of elven minstrels to evoke visions from their songs. Now imagine him singing of his brothers.

While making this piece I was never entirely sure whether he was bidding them to come to him, or bidding them to stop haunting him. Perhaps both.

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Credits:

Maglor: [link]

Beach: [link]

Gull: [link]

References for the brothers: [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

Textures: [link] [link] [link]

(The title is from one of Tolkien's poems, though it does not actually concern Maglor.)