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I wanted to have a shot at the "Rohirric style", so I’ve based this design on both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon styles. I’m not 100% hqppy with the final look – I guess this is another deviation I will have to “revisit” in the future.
For the text I have used my own translation into Old English of an excerpt from the Lord of the Rings App. about Éomer Éadig, King of the Mark.
Tools: vellum, inks, tempera & watercolours.

For those interested, the translation goes as follows:

In þe dagum Ēomeres in þe Marce, men æfdon friþ þe hit āwilnodon and þe leod wēoxon ǽgðer ġe in þe dælum ġe in þe emnetum, and hira hors manigfaldon. In Staninglande Ælfstan Cyning nū ricsode, and in Cyninglande ēc. In allum þe landum þara āldena cynerica hē wæs cyning, nemne in þe Riddermarce, þām hē geniwode tō Ēomere þe Giefe Ciriones, and Ēomer gehālsode ednīwan þe Hāþ Ēorles. Oft æfnde hē hit. For þāh þe Deorca Hlāford æfde gefallen, þe hatunga and þe yfelu þæt hē cennede ne æfdon gecwolen, and þe Cyning Westes æfde ātemian manega fēondas ǽr þe Hwitan Trēowe meahte grōwan friþsume. And swā hwider swā Ælfstan Cyning fōr æt guðe, Ēomer Cyning fōr mid him; and begeondan þe Eastsǽ and on þe feorrum feldum sūþdǽles þe þūnorrad rǽdeheres Marce wæs gehered and þe Hwita Hors on Grenum flēg in manegum windum ǽr Ēomere gamolode.
(Þe Hlāford Hringa, Add. A, "Þe Cyningas Marce – Þridda Strynd", tr. 1045)

Original text:

"In Éomer's day in the Mark men had peace who wished for it, and the people increased both in the dales and the plains, and their horses multiplied. In Gondor the King Elessar now ruled, and in Arnor also. In all the lands of those realms of old he was king, save in Rohan only; for he renewed to Éomer the gift of Cirion, and Éomer took again the Oath of Eorl. Often he fulfilled it. For though Sauron had passed, the hatreds and evils that he bred had not died, and the King of the West had many enemies to subdue before the White Tree could grow in peace. And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old."
(The Lord of the Rings, App. A, “The Kings of the Mark – Third Line, p. 1045)

Description
I wanted to have a shot at the "Rohirric style", so I’ve based this design on both Celtic and Anglo-Saxon styles. I’m not 100% hqppy with the final look – I guess this is another deviation I will have to “revisit” in the future.
For the text I have used my own translation into Old English of an excerpt from the Lord of the Rings App. about Éomer Éadig, King of the Mark.
Tools: vellum, inks, tempera & watercolours.

For those interested, the translation goes as follows:

In þe dagum Ēomeres in þe Marce, men æfdon friþ þe hit āwilnodon and þe leod wēoxon ǽgðer ġe in þe dælum ġe in þe emnetum, and hira hors manigfaldon. In Staninglande Ælfstan Cyning nū ricsode, and in Cyninglande ēc. In allum þe landum þara āldena cynerica hē wæs cyning, nemne in þe Riddermarce, þām hē geniwode tō Ēomere þe Giefe Ciriones, and Ēomer gehālsode ednīwan þe Hāþ Ēorles. Oft æfnde hē hit. For þāh þe Deorca Hlāford æfde gefallen, þe hatunga and þe yfelu þæt hē cennede ne æfdon gecwolen, and þe Cyning Westes æfde ātemian manega fēondas ǽr þe Hwitan Trēowe meahte grōwan friþsume. And swā hwider swā Ælfstan Cyning fōr æt guðe, Ēomer Cyning fōr mid him; and begeondan þe Eastsǽ and on þe feorrum feldum sūþdǽles þe þūnorrad rǽdeheres Marce wæs gehered and þe Hwita Hors on Grenum flēg in manegum windum ǽr Ēomere gamolode.
(Þe Hlāford Hringa, Add. A, "Þe Cyningas Marce – Þridda Strynd", tr. 1045)

Original text:

"In Éomer's day in the Mark men had peace who wished for it, and the people increased both in the dales and the plains, and their horses multiplied. In Gondor the King Elessar now ruled, and in Arnor also. In all the lands of those realms of old he was king, save in Rohan only; for he renewed to Éomer the gift of Cirion, and Éomer took again the Oath of Eorl. Often he fulfilled it. For though Sauron had passed, the hatreds and evils that he bred had not died, and the King of the West had many enemies to subdue before the White Tree could grow in peace. And wherever King Elessar went with war King Éomer went with him; and beyond the Sea of Rhûn and on the far fields of the South the thunder of the cavalry of the Mark was heard, and the White Horse upon Green flew in many winds until Éomer grew old."
(The Lord of the Rings, App. A, “The Kings of the Mark – Third Line, p. 1045)