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Art Conquering Death

Art Conquering Death

This is a story about three men – two painters and an emperor – and one dead woman. The men, all three of them, gained as much immortality as a human being can during their lifetime. Their names are still mentioned with awe, their works, or the consequences of their deeds still exist today, scholars write about them, tourists walk through the rooms they lived in and discuss their paintings. Google them, if you want, and you will get well over a million results for each. The woman, on the other hand, gained no such immortality. Her name, if mentioned at all, is found at the margins, in the footnotes, whispered in the dark

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Earendil and Elwingby ~Lena-Hyena

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For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved. On a time of night Eärendil at the helm of his ship saw her come towards him, as a white cloud exceeding swift beneath the moon, as a star over the sea moving in strange course, a pale flame on wings of storm.

(Tolkien)

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Navigare necesse est.

~DorianHerestor Feb 26, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I just finnished reading this exact part of the silmarillion (how ironic, right?) and I must say that I could not with for a better illustration. Well done!