#gold rush au

“I will be cautious,” Finrod said, his blue eyes snapping wider as he took Beren’s worry in, and changed it to something stronger inside himself. “Believe me, I do not wish to fail any more than Maedhros does. I have you to think of, too.”

–a space in your heart for my future

While everyone else is melting over Maedros, I’m over here thinking about the whole Beren-Lúthien-Finrod dynamic from @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush T_T <333 Their interactions are my lembas and miruvor, with a yummy athelas dip!

A portrait of Beren before he cut off his braids, from @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush! I wasn’t satisfied with the first portrait I did for him, so I tried my hand at it again; this is more how I envision him!

The beads in his braids aren’t from the AU; authors, I hope the y’all don’t mind! ^^;; I was just really inspired by Beren adding beads to Finrod’s braids, so I thought to myself, what if Lúthien heard about it and did something similar, but with jade beads strung through with red thread (pointing to her Chinese heritage)? Hers would have a romantic touch too, as opposed to the platonic/familial gesture of Finrod’s braids :DDD

I recently learned that I’ve been drawing @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush Fingon’s braids wrong this whole time ^^;; So here’s my attempt to fix it with Fingon of Green Gables! XDD

She moves like a silver blade, come to cut him free.

Heyo! Where have I been, you wonder? Whelp I recently read Assassin’s Apprentice and have been drawing lots of fanart for it! But then @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush updated Pharmakos recently, and I thought to myself, why not draw my favourite Silmarillion character? :DDD

Oh and I drew Maedros too XDD Since Lúthien’s panel is through his pov, I exaggerated her a bit to make her look more otherworldly, like her hair flying behind her and all!