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Gileryd — Morgoth, the First Dark Lord
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Published: 2006-02-21 13:00:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 50141; Favourites: 710; Downloads: 73
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The image represents my vision of Morgoth, Tolkien's first Dark Lord. I tried to capture his power and malice, his dark essence rather his physical appearance (which was so masterfully represented by Ted Nasmith, John Howe and few other artists).Related content
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Awesome job. Try to capture his fair form when he deceived his fellow Valar
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My picture's Morgo--Wait! I mean, I'M Morgoth! (Phew, that was a close one!)
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That's okay. I didn't need to to sleep tonight anyway.
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In many ways I wish THIS was how they portrayed Sauron in the films, solely because this was dark and abstract, which he was like his servants (Nazgul) Since his true form had long since been lost (before the ring was taken) I would imagine he would be made of solid shadows which became amorphous and chaotic at random. Morgoth's depiction here is perfect
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Sauron's more humanoid form was probably unseen in the tower. Nobody ever said the Eye was entirely Sauron's form, they just said it was the 'face' of it.
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Truly one of the greatest imaginings of a malicious dark lord I have ever seen! Good job!
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how can i get this in a huge poster? my wall is naked without it....
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If your goal was to capture Morgoth's dark essence, you absolutely succeeded. The way you've portrayed him oozes malevolence and drips with evil. As a lover of all things Tolkien, I absolutely adore this piece. Well done, Gileyrd. Well done, indeed.
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You know, while reading 'The Silmarillion' I never really could picture his appearance inside my head.
Unil now, that is. Amazing job
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'I come from Yonder.'
-Khamul, 'The Lord of the Rings'
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epic.you cant describe it with other words. just simply epic.
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See...if THIS was the guy causing all the crap in the end of the Third Age, Frodo and his little pals would have been dead in about the first fourth of the first book.
I mean, c'mon, Sauron got beat by a midget, his gardner, and a crack-head.
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*Walks into a bookstore, burns all the Twilight related books, replaces them with the works of Tolkien, Luis, and other masters kids these days should know about*
Y'know what? When Harry Potter first came out, I thought "Wow...this is just...dumb." Then I got used to it and sorta enjoyed it. Then the Inheritence books (Eregon and such) came out and I thought "Geeze, this is really dumb! Harry Potter is cool compaired to this." But meh I read 'em anyways. And now Twilight....yes well At least the creators of Potter and Eregon KNOW HOW TO WRITE!
o.o Still LotR kills them all easily. Not even a fair fight. Tolkien is a Valar as far as I'm concerned. Those other writers are just human. That Stephanie person (creator of Twilight and such) I'm not so sure about.
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Well, you know what they say - there's no sense arguing about taste, everyone has a different one.
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I am of the firm belief that humanity is stupid. Ingenous, tenacous, sexy, and even delicous, but overall...stupid.
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haha! You and my wife would get along great! 
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A very very VERY nice deviantion of Morgoth (AKA Melkor). I'm impressed. When it comes to artistry this is some of the best I've seen. And being an 'Arda Loremaster' has gotten me to know muh about Morgoth himself. In fact, he wasn't just the first Dark Lord, he was the being from which all evil stems. Anyway, keep these drawings up! They look great!
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Thank you very much for your kind comment!
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I absolutely love this! You've definitely captured his power, and expressed his evil really well. That is necessary in order to really portray this villain accurately; as he is Tolkien's - quite possibly the greatest fantasy author of all time - equivalent of Satan in the Middle-Earth world(which is what he intended, actually).
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This is the best Melkor's portrait I ever seen.
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Gorgeous... I really love this. He's a captivating character, and you truly captured that. ^_^
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this is like one of the best pics of morgoth i've seen but i think that th cape/robe looks to long in the bottom (looks a bit like spawn)
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i havent seen many renditions of morgoth...and fell asleep halfway through the book ^.^ but what this defenitely fits with the evil vibe and all
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Maybe you should get a pot of coffee and try reading it again!
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hahaha, nope, not happening. very dry book, nu uh, ill just wait until you make a full visual remake of the epicness 
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hehe I see, so you're more of a Harry Potter kinda person.
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lmfao, nope not harry potter, i was the guy sleeping in the theater when my gf dragged me there. sounds exciting, what you working on or is that a super secret project. and if you must know i prefer the dune chronicles
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I'm working on Morgoth's home actually. It should go nicely with this image. 
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