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Alright can I just say how much I love the elves in the Elder Scrolls
J.R.R. Tolkien popularized elves as these otherworldly, divinely beautiful creatures which sorta established the standard for the race in all modern fantasy that came after. They're nearly immortal, distant, and to me, plain boring. Then around comes Morrowind, the game that really made me fall in love with TES, its world and its lore!! The elves of TES have a long history, and each subrace has their own cultural identity. The elves no longer just sit in theirCrystal ivory towers (well I guess some of them do) and sing to their trees or whatever - they're flawed, complicated PEOPLE, and extremely proud of who they are. The haughty Altmer, the hostile Dunmer from the Ashlands, the cannibalistic Bosmer, the late Dwemer and their scientific achievements…. when was the last time any elves modeled after Tolkien's work had this much cultural diversity??
I love the fact that Bethesda actually created some of the most interesting, unusual cultures in the series for them. I love reading about them. I love their history. I love their aesthetics, which are exotic and uniquely beautiful. Just the amount of THOUGHT that has gone into creating the finer details of their cultures is incredible to me and has inspired me for the past decade.
tl;dr: hnnnngh TES elves
J.R.R. Tolkien popularized elves as these otherworldly, divinely beautiful creatures which sorta established the standard for the race in all modern fantasy that came after. They're nearly immortal, distant, and to me, plain boring. Then around comes Morrowind, the game that really made me fall in love with TES, its world and its lore!! The elves of TES have a long history, and each subrace has their own cultural identity. The elves no longer just sit in their
I love the fact that Bethesda actually created some of the most interesting, unusual cultures in the series for them. I love reading about them. I love their history. I love their aesthetics, which are exotic and uniquely beautiful. Just the amount of THOUGHT that has gone into creating the finer details of their cultures is incredible to me and has inspired me for the past decade.
tl;dr: hnnnngh TES elves
society6 store up and running!
Are you not finnish? cannot make it to conventions in finland to buy my prints?? worry not any longer!! I forcefully got my butt kicked into making a society6 store :0 : D :0 : D for now it’s mainly art prints, but I’ll try my best to keep it up to date if I come up with any other designs.
Take a look at my prints here!!
The Prophet of Landfall
Read it here! All you Elder Scrolls fans out there.
Written by Michael Kirkbride and illustrated by yours truly. (:
This is one of the projects I've been working on lately. I've also been very busy doing illustration work for the Transformers Legends game. who'da thunk??
London!
Yep!!!! going there next week. I'm so excited! I will take lots of photos and also blow all of my money. hah.
Any must-see places you could recommend? (:
Tracon 2013!
I got a last minute artist table at Tracon 2013 @ Tampere, Finland, September 14-15!
EDIT: my table is #42!
I got some time off, ordered a brand new batch of prints, and I'll be there all weekend selling stuff and drawing things. :0
tulukee sanomaan morjens tai jottain
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well there is the silmarillion which tells quite a lot about the tolkien elves etc., a really complicated book though to read, but it's mindblowing and tragic.
I have to agree that they are kinda boring in lotr but when I read the silmarillion I changed my mind, there is quite a lot
about them actually!