Two recent dnd commissions! Thank you <3

for day two of @khazadweek - second age i did not care about rop. i was not planning on watching rop. but then i saw that there were dwarves and i had no other choice. to me disa and durin are the main characters. everything with galadriel and sauron and shit is just b-plot.

DWARVES

I tried to create some dwarves in Artbreeder.. for some reason I really love the picture of dwarves with some asian facial features. I was inspired by mongolians in my creations. These are just some nameless dwarves and yes, the first one is actually a woman. It is really hard to do in Artbreeder none of them looks just as I imagined them, the add of beards change the facial features quite a bit.. I wanted to also create more hair and eye colour variations, but Artbreeder said no and every dwarf turned looking rather alien and discoloired, so for this reason there are only dark haired dwarves in this post: since it was proven to be the easiest path to achieve my goal of portraying dwarves as I personally like to imagine them.

Since I consider my own slavic (mostly) culture to be underappreciated in Tolkien fandom (and any fandom in general) I like to imagine dwarves wearing richly embroidered clothing, however slavic clothing is marked by its prominent use of floral patterns, which do not suit dwarves as a nation living underground. I think they like colourful rich embroidery in more geometrical patterns and beaded with precious stones and metals. I imagine Noldor in particular also like embroidery, but prefer more delicate less heavy styles in Valinor and then adopt a little more heavy styles upon exile in Middle-Earth. Specifically Fëanorians adopted more dwarf inspired styles because of their ties to dwarves.. as friends, allies but more importantly trading partners - which allowed them to trade clothing and materials made by dwarves, therefore influencing the fashion style of First Age Noldor.

Since the language of dawrves is a secret one I like to imagine they use runes and words on their clothing to signal different messages such as rank, occupation, family ties, apprenticeship (who was your teacher..) maybe even some honourable ones which you are awarded by your lord to wear for your deeds or some “quality” symbols you are awarded when your craftmanship reach some degree of notoriety and appreciation in community.

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Music: The Dwarven King's tomb, by Ivan Duch

Dwarves, 'Blood Guts & Pussy' t-shirt, 1990.

thinking of how nothing surpasses this portrait of a family's home in the spanish netherlands (brussels?). anyway jan van kessel, 1679

The Dwarves 01x01

…….where do dwarves get their clothes.

Me: looks at a fantasy race Me: okay so hear me out Me: what if it had animal traits

- 2020

Everyone complaining about the elves supposedly looking like fuckboys in ROP but have you guys read the silmarillion? 😂

They’re all Fuckboys and the worst kind of entitled in that or am I remembering things so differently from everyone else?

for legal reasons this is a joke.

To answer the question a bunch of people asked over the years,: "Why do you draw every Ankh-Morpork watch uniform different?"

..

I think there is no uniformness to the night watch uniforms, i mean..besides colors of the clothes...And that they also wear the insignia..

I feel like most of the official uniform helmets and other pieces of armor have sort of...disappeared over the years (their location was tactically changed). And whats left is mismatched mix that was amassed over decades of different fashions and technology. (alot of..uh.. lost and found...and confiscated)

-Vimes wears the same helmet he has been wearing for YEARS...Same with his breast plate...Keeping them appropriately delustered

-Fred Colons helmets keep on disappearing, so he has to get a "new" one every once in a while. His breastplate is the old sergeant one and he keeps it in pretty good shiny shape.

-Nobby has MANY HELMETS and many breastplates and chainmail shirts.. But has few favorites..and those he wears untill the leather snaps, the metals rust.. or grow weird green growths and ultimately break (which with him for some reason happens FAST)

-Carrot wears a breastplate he got from the watch armory, but helmet he wears traditionally dwarven.

-Most of other dwarves also wear their own helmets n armor ..

-Trolls just get whatever designs they can get made.

-Angua wears leather armor and usually doesnt wear a helmet (the other watchmen wanted to get her a boob armor, but after bringing it up to her, they very quickly dropped the idea)

-Reg goes through his armors even faster than Nobby, and has to buy his own.

*Edit: the uniforms not looking the same is how they were described in the books, s not from my head, just bad wording on my side.

BAD THINGS BY D&D SPECIES

HUMANS: ONLY BIOLOGICAL LIFEFORM IN THE WORLD THAT ISN'T INNATELY MAGIC AND NGL IT FEELS TARGETED AT THIS POINT

ELVES: THAT ONE SHITTY TREE. SURE THEY LOVE NATURE BUT THAT SURE IS A SHITTY TREE OK. WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT?

DWARVES: THERE'S ONE OLD GUY WITH A STAFF YELLING THAT THEY'RE DIGGING TOO DEEP LIKE THAT'S A THING

HALFLINGS: BREXIT

TEIFLINGS: SECRET UNACKNOWLEDGED LONGING FOR PREP FASHION

GNOMES: EXCESS WHIMSY LEAKED IN WATER SUPPLY CAUSING UNSEASONABLE SHENANIGANS IN THE FISH POPULATION

GOBLINS: THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF WHY EVERYTHING IS SOMEHOW ON FIRE ALL THE TIME

DROW: YOU'D BE SURPRISED AT HOW LITTLE REPRESENTATION THE COMMON PERSON HAS IN A POLITICAL SYSTEM BASED ENTIRELY AROUND EVIL GIRLBOSSES ATTACKING EACH OTHER WITH SPIDERS

ORCS: THAT ONE HORDE THAT KEEPS RUNNING AROUND RAIDING PEOPLE THAT THE ORCS SEE FROM THEIR UTOPIAN SPACE STATION. WHAT ASSHOLES. THAT'S WHY THEY THREW THEM OFF THE SPACE STATION

DRAGONS: ACTUALLY THE DRAGONS ARE DOING GREAT. THANKS FOR ASKING!

a while back in the news headlines that firefox recommends to you on the new tab, it showed me a kotaku article or smth that was called smth like "dungeon meshi is the cooking anime dungeons and dragons fans deserve." closest ive ever been to throwing my computer in a lake tbh

god okay to be COMPLETELY fair, it's clear that Kui is drawing from the DnD oeuvre, from some of the old-fashioned character tropes she's drawing on, the specific selection of races to populate the main setting (Humans, Elves, Gnomes, Halflings, Dwarves, and Half-Elves) are almost the exact lineup as the 3.5finder core rulebooks, missing only half-orcs, and of course to specifically focus on a mixed-class party venturing deep into a dungeon. It's just that that's got some distance from the MODERN DnD culture which is more focused on aboveground stuff, has its own memes and cultures, as well as a lot of the stuff that 5e bumped to core like Warlocks, Dragonborn, and Tieflings. Additionally, we can see from her Elves In Other Fiction sketches that she specifically has played some Pathfinder adventure paths! Which is incredibly based.

Anyway saying Dunmeshi is DnD inspired is not strictly wrong, but it's less Dimension 20 and more Order of the Stick.

“As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves. Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party"

[ID: an edit comprised of six posters in muted colors, mainly greens and browns. White text in the center of each image reads "The Hobbit" and underneath "J.R.R. Tolkien."

1: Wooden barrels in a stack / 2: Someone wearing several layered jackets in various tweed fabrics and a red corduroy vest with leather buttons / 3: Mountains with a path in between them / 4: Several shelves holding old-fashioned books, a stack of plates, a scroll, teacups, and various other objects / 5: Mushrooms growing on a tree trunk / 6: A golden eagle it with its wings slightly unfolded sitting on a branch /End ID]

as sometimes happens when writing a book, the characters and the lore shift from what you initially conceptualized, so you gotta adjust for it. i recently wrote about dwarf gender and culture over on retrospring, mostly as a way to clarify angre's relationship with it, but also to justify the way i designed tourmaline as being high femme when dwarves aren't really Known for that, and i don't want to just handwave it as "she's a woman!" and not play with dwarf gender.

high class dwarves are all about ostentatious displays of wealth, and your hair is a huge part of that. for one thing, having long and luxurious head hair is fashionable for any gender, but so is shaving/waxing your body hair and face. it demonstrates you have the time to do so regularly, and/or the money to pay someone to do it for you. and if you're going to go to all that effort, you're going to wear clothes that show it off. thus, no sleeves, high slits to show off the legs, and low cut collars to display the chest. this outfit is her travel look, the minimum amount of flashy she's willing to accept. at home, she would be wearing much more jewelry, her clothes would have even more embroidery, and she may even show the stomach. this is her being subtle.

and the adjustments to angre were largely just to make his outfit more practical for the sort of traveling they're doing. originally he had plate and mail but in the book they're trying not to draw too much attention to themselves (or at least he isn't) so leather armor and padding feels more appropriate. angre's smooth face is due to genetics, being that he's half human. he has plenty of body hair otherwise and doesn't shave it. as far as dwarf beauty standards go, he's not particularly attractive Or unattractive, though his extra height is a plus. we'll say average with room for improvement if he took better care of his hair and dressed nice.

Finrod Felagund. "Philosophic discourse regarding the enmity of Orcs with Elves." The Philosophy of Finrod Felagund. 2nd ed., edited and translated by Vardamir Nólimon, Armenelos, S.A. 130.

[Ed. note: Private papers of Finrod Felagund. Written in his own hand. Dated to the season of Firith in the year 455, shortly before the Dagor Bragollach.]

Fact: According to the lore of our people from the days of Cuiviénen, the Enemy fashioned Orc-kind by his torture and slow corruption of Elven captives.

Question: How did our people learn this lore? Can it be that any ever escaped from the depths of Utumno to serve as witness?

Fact: In the lore we got of the Valar there is to my knowledge no teaching regarding the origins of Orc-kind.

Conjecture: It may be that our lore is not reliable on this point.

Fact: There are a few among us who dwelt at Cuiviénen, and others of their number abide yet in Aman; none of them have to my knowledge disputed the accuracy of our lore on this matter.

Fact: The fëar of Elves and Men have their differences from one another, but none so fundamental as the distinction between the fëar of the Eruhíni and the spirits of the non-speaking creatures. The spirits of non-speaking creatures cannot properly be called fëar, as the distinction in question is one of kind and not of degree. (Indeed fëar cannot be spoken of at all in terms of degree or size, as each fëa is itself indivisible.)

Fact: The lore we got of the Valar tells us that the fëa cannot be destroyed by any means.

Fact: Also of that lore, we know that the Enemy cannot truly create, only twist in mockery what has been created.

Fact: Also of that lore, we know that the Dwarves have their fëar of Ilúvatar alone, and not of Aulë. Before the granting of their fëar they could not speak, nor had they any will of their own, but could only obey the will of Aulë.

Fact: Orcs speak, and there is sense behind their words.

[continued on Ao3]