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Submitted: January 11
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music of Ainurby *breathing2004

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Illustrations / Storybook

Eru is the supreme being, God. Eru is transcendent, and completely outside of and beyond the world. He first created a group of angelic beings, called in Elvish the Ainur, and these holy spirits were co-actors in the creation of the universe through a holy music and chanting called the "Music of the Ainur", or Ainulindall in Elvish.
Eru alone can create independent life or reality by giving it the Flame Imperishable. All beings not created directly by Eru, (e.g. Dwarves, Ents, Eagles), still need to be accepted by Eru to become more than mere puppets of their creator. Melkor desired the Flame Imperishable and long sought for it in vain, but he could only twist that which had already been given life
Eru created alone the Elves and Men. This is why in The Silmarillion both races are called the Children of Illvatar. The race of the Dwarves was created by Aule, and given sapience by Eru. Animals and plants were fashioned by Yavanna during the Music of the Ainur after the themes set out by Eru. The Eagles of Manwe were created from the thought of Manwand Yavanna. Yavanna also created the Ents, who were given sapience by Eru. Melkor instilled some semblance of free will into his mockeries of Eru Illvatar's creations (Orcs and Trolls).

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Critique by ~Thranduil-Elvenking Jan 23, 2013, 9:26:07 AM

The background colours give off a cosmic totality from Eru.
The esoteric quality of the illustration makes it highly compelling. Putting the Eruhini within Eru and under the Flame Imperishable gives it a touch of genesis, a beautiful creationesque quality.
The characterization of the Ainur adds magnificence to the piece. Detailing the regalia of the Ainur with features of their own domain helps mark them in such an elegant fashion. It is a mark of vision of a true artist.
What I would have liked to see is a representation of the void. I might be mistaken and it might be in there woven brilliantly and subtly -like everything else- as the void is an essential part of The Silmarillion.
Nonetheless, no words I can write can give justice to this masterpiece. I would say by far your finest work, but your other features of work are brilliant.
At request, please continue to illustrate such brilliant settings.

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Critique by *Avield Jan 11, 2013, 8:36:24 PM

Definitely one of your more interesting pieces.
It's certainly not your most colorful, but its the most interesting in that while it is based off another story... it feels like an original piece.
Nice line work.
Excellent poses.
Wonderful use of emotion and shapes to show Picasso-esque emotion.
I especially like your depiction of the godly figure in the middle. She seems like a combination of lady liberty and the personification of justice (the one with the blindfold)
Keep up the good work and I hope you branch out into more epic stories that deserve that same amazing treatment WoW and LOTR got.
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~dragonsong17 May 3, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Beautiful! I love the Ainulindale so much, and this is a gorgeous depiction of it!

~Greemology Apr 11, 2013

Wow. This should be cast in real glass.

~Sinsitra Apr 2, 2013

Ooooo! My favourite one! <3

~Ileranerak Mar 25, 2013

This is beautiful, the only fault I find with it is that it can't actually be made into a real stained glass piece, if someone tried, it would be changed so it can actually be made, as there are some lines that are just not possible to cut in glass.... U__U ..
Oh, but imagine how wonderful it would be in real stained glass...

*FlyingCarpets Mar 25, 2013

Yes, please be so kind and tell us the order in which the Valar go on this picture :3

~AlienJef Mar 25, 2013

Me and a few folks over at tumblr are discussing who is who in this picture.

Some are easy guesses, like Nienna and Yavanna, Aule and Ulmo.
Could you enlighten us?

~miss-polarchuck Mar 18, 2013

So fabulous !

~nenyakanadka Feb 28, 2013

Freaking gorgeous. <3<3<3

*avi17 Feb 26, 2013

Gorgeous <3 Cannot wait to see more Silmarillion illustrations from you! (And can't wait for the next free shipping event that DA does so I can afford to buy all your new prints XD)

~LittleBro-BigSis Feb 20, 2013

I always am amazed by your work, but I love how you drew the Ainur. Each of them look gorgeous! For a second I thought the two brothers on the left were Death and it's brother Sleep from the Greek Mythology, but then I thought: hey, this is you, so of course it has to be LOTR. And then I figured it was the Ainur

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