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30-Day Character Study: Mairon | Day 6
Jan. 6th, 2025 06:31 pmDay 6 of SWG 30-Day Character Study. My character is Mairon | Sauron | Annatar.
Today's prompt: Artistic Licenses. Take at least ten minutes to peruse fan art about your character. Think about which fan artists best capture how you imagine your character and why. Think about how your character's appearance does (or does not) support other aspects of their traits and history.
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With Mairon, there is no lack of fan art about him. I even found the online Silmarillion fandom (in 2020) only because I was searching online fan art about Sauron in Númenor at that time, so he was my "gateway drug".
This is a good point to insert "always has been" meme. That was me, stepping into the Silm fandom.
For this prompt, I searched my tumblr blog for #mairon tag. I mostly reblog fan art, and there's a lot of it about Mairon. He's my second most used tag after #silmarillion. This tag leaves out Rings of Power inspired fan art, but it's a pretty extensive collection anyway.
(I had no patience to go through all of it.)
I love how every fandom artist has their own style of drawing Mairon, and the art pieces are so inspirational and diverse! The only art style about him I don't care very much is that where he's pictured in LotR-style full-armoured giant (boring), or as a fiery eyeball (unless it's a humorous take). Some artists put details like eye-motifs, third eye, associations to fire or to forge in art about him and I find these details fascinating. He's often pictured seductive, and somewhat androgynous (oh yes), but also sometimes as stressed and tired and an overworked little Maia. Naturally, many art pieces about him are dark and may contain darker themes, but on the other hand, there are many cosy artworks that picture him in nice and comfortable situations – mostly with either Melkor & the Angband crew, or with Celebrimbor.
If I should choose only one art piece that pictures how I see Mairon, I would probably choose this one by Krabat. I think it shows well his Maia-nature and his natural curiosity, and why he was called the Admirable.
Today's prompt: Artistic Licenses. Take at least ten minutes to peruse fan art about your character. Think about which fan artists best capture how you imagine your character and why. Think about how your character's appearance does (or does not) support other aspects of their traits and history.
___________________________
With Mairon, there is no lack of fan art about him. I even found the online Silmarillion fandom (in 2020) only because I was searching online fan art about Sauron in Númenor at that time, so he was my "gateway drug".
This is a good point to insert "always has been" meme. That was me, stepping into the Silm fandom.
For this prompt, I searched my tumblr blog for #mairon tag. I mostly reblog fan art, and there's a lot of it about Mairon. He's my second most used tag after #silmarillion. This tag leaves out Rings of Power inspired fan art, but it's a pretty extensive collection anyway.
(I had no patience to go through all of it.)
I love how every fandom artist has their own style of drawing Mairon, and the art pieces are so inspirational and diverse! The only art style about him I don't care very much is that where he's pictured in LotR-style full-armoured giant (boring), or as a fiery eyeball (unless it's a humorous take). Some artists put details like eye-motifs, third eye, associations to fire or to forge in art about him and I find these details fascinating. He's often pictured seductive, and somewhat androgynous (oh yes), but also sometimes as stressed and tired and an overworked little Maia. Naturally, many art pieces about him are dark and may contain darker themes, but on the other hand, there are many cosy artworks that picture him in nice and comfortable situations – mostly with either Melkor & the Angband crew, or with Celebrimbor.
If I should choose only one art piece that pictures how I see Mairon, I would probably choose this one by Krabat. I think it shows well his Maia-nature and his natural curiosity, and why he was called the Admirable.
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