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I do tend to imagine FA Easterlings as people in many ways reminiscent of turkic and proto-turkic peoples of central Asia. For example, I've kind of decided to imagine Borlad as a throat-singer of great renown.
Uldor in his youth I like to a imagine as a very likeable guy and a free spirit, who loved the wind, cool, crisp air and hunting with eagles. (And when he heard of Valar, he immediately developed a soft spot for Manwe.) As for the eagles - it's not just the fact that the whole central-Asian image feels kind of incomplete without them; I also very much like the idea that some eagles left for the East and befriended the people there, maybe even on Manwe's bidding (though I prefer to imagine them as dissenters who simply felt sorry for all the guys who weren't lucky enough to run into Eldar and who were more or less left alone in the dark)...
OK. Before I write a friggin' fanfic novel here - Uldor, with eagle, before shadows gathered in his heart and he became the accursed traitor in Nirnaeth Arnoediad. What exactly went wrong I leave up to your imagination - but all kinds of things can go wrong when you're an illiterate Nomad who spends too much time with Noldor. Especially if Caranthir is your king...;-)

The eagle is *awful*, I know. This is what happens if you rely too much on reference images. (I think I'll start sketching eagles tomorrow...)
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~FaerieCarousel Apr 3, 2013
What a fantastic concept, and gorgeously executed. You have my imagination firing about Uldor and his people now, which is one of my favorite things about The Silmarillion--how all us fans experiment with filling in the blanks and basically build our own stories into Tolkien's mythos, being collectively creative. I love this :)
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Mood: Love ~Huinare Aug 8, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
That's an interesting history you've imagined for Uldor. A lot more compelling than just saying something like "Uldor? Oh him, yeah, he was always an unpleasant, evil son of a..."
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=Subtranslucent Jul 3, 2012
love the details and I think the way the eagle was rendered makes the drawing all the more wonderful :)
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*NordicLynx Mar 31, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I love all the details in his clothes :)
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~Nerwen20 Sep 29, 2011
Wow! You drew him so beautifully that initially I thought he was an Elf or a Vala! It didn't register in my mind that you had written 'Uldor'. The look in his eyes is heartbreaking - you can tell that at this point he's just a decent guy who likes running and harping. I always wonder what Maglor thought right before he killed him.

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~Zireael07 Sep 29, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
I love the pic. Especially the eagle.
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*avi17 Sep 29, 2011
I love how much thought you've put into this. :) It's very different from how I would imagine, but it works really well, and it's drawn beautifully. :D
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~Niuchaczaus Sep 29, 2011
Beautiful. I really like the way you described him. And the picture suits the description very well, with exact feeling of freedom, wind in hair or so ;) The clothes, though noble, fit this style very well. Traitors in Tolkien's books are in general fascinating and complicated characters, as it is not so hard to imagine them before these "shadows gathering in hearts"... Great idea to show Uldor in such an innocent state of mind yet. :)
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~Saeleth Sep 29, 2011
I love the details! Very beautiful!
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~Aofapl Sep 29, 2011  Student General Artist
I like it! :D
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