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Uldor the Accursed

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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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Fermin-Tenava's avatar
A very underrated character from the Silmarillion, so it's nice to see him once in the screen light :)

The design is very good, too, and very unusual for the more film-centered Tolkien fanart section.