DS 7: Assuage

Not even a moody Melkor or his insults or threats can dissuade Mairon from attempting to try and comfort his pained master.   For once I don't need to write a little blurb to go with the art because this is what happens 10 seconds after the previous panel.     Now that is dedication and love and lots of courage because hugging Melkor now is probably like hugging an angry, hurt, and very unpredictable wild animal.  On whole not the best of ideas since who knows how he will react... I hope favorably.  Now that funky surreal border on the other hand....

I just wanted to draw a border that contained Eru since he's working behind the scenes here. Because I could I decided I would just depict him as a faceless being that uses three basic masks to convey emotion - a mask of contentment, a mask of wrath, and a mask of despair. Simple and to the point.  Then Melkor showed up at the bottom corner and I just went with it.  I suppose the story in the border is up for interpretation.  Could be Melkor coveting the Secret Fire back at the beginning of time or it could be Eru, in this moment, trying to get his painful burning point across to Melkor or maybe there is no story and it is simply a pretty border that serves no point what-so-ever.  Any are good choices honestly. 

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Ultimately this is some sort of angbang art series that follows a silly story idea I've had mulling around in my head for a while. Previous picture in the series here:


_{Melkor and Mairon (c) Tolkien
Funky art (c) Me}