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I told myself a few months ago, after I've finished The City of Asshai painting, that I will mainly focus on the simpler things for some time, such as portrait and landscape paintings. So I did that Calm Before the Storm and Zombie Portrait paintings as well as the cover art (landscape) for some French Black Metal band. However, my idea was short-lived in general since I needed some harder challenge to advance my painting skills. So I ended up creating by far the most challenging of all of my paintings to date. It took me 45+ days to complete this "behemoth". As you can tell, it is a huge painting (8000 x 4000 px) made with attention to every detail. Faces, poses, clothes, interactions, everything's been considered, as well as the setting and landscape in which the battle took place in the book...
Now about the very theme of this painting. The Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for "Battle of Sudden Flame") represents one of the darkest and most hearbreaking events in the history of Middle Earth. It marked the ending of the siege of Angband and it was the turning point in Silmarillion since from that moment on Morgoth's advancements in war against elves were constant until the intervention of Valars. This was the first battle in which Glaurung the Father of Dragons and Wyrms was unleashed in full strenght and he brought a lot of woe to the elves, men and dwarfs of Beleriand. The battle itself began by Morgoth sending out rivers of flame and poisonous fumes from Thangorodrim that burned the frozen fields of Ard-galen before Glaurung and Balrogs came out of fires crushing the remaining forces of Noldor followed by endless armies of orcs. The assault was so strong and devastating that elven forces never fully recovered in years ahead and many of noble elves, men and dwarves perished during its course...
With this painting I wanted to showcase sheer terror and destruction of this crushing assault. Here you can see a remainder of Nordor army on the brinks of Dorthonion unsuccessfully trying to contain this crushing wave of evil forces. Glaurung, Gothmog, Balrogs, and many Orcs are shown here coming as the unstoppable river of flames from Thangorodrim. I'm pretty happy with the way this painting turned out. Hope you'll like it too. Cheers!

Description
I told myself a few months ago, after I've finished The City of Asshai painting, that I will mainly focus on the simpler things for some time, such as portrait and landscape paintings. So I did that Calm Before the Storm and Zombie Portrait paintings as well as the cover art (landscape) for some French Black Metal band. However, my idea was short-lived in general since I needed some harder challenge to advance my painting skills. So I ended up creating by far the most challenging of all of my paintings to date. It took me 45+ days to complete this "behemoth". As you can tell, it is a huge painting (8000 x 4000 px) made with attention to every detail. Faces, poses, clothes, interactions, everything's been considered, as well as the setting and landscape in which the battle took place in the book...
Now about the very theme of this painting. The Dagor Bragollach (Sindarin for "Battle of Sudden Flame") represents one of the darkest and most hearbreaking events in the history of Middle Earth. It marked the ending of the siege of Angband and it was the turning point in Silmarillion since from that moment on Morgoth's advancements in war against elves were constant until the intervention of Valars. This was the first battle in which Glaurung the Father of Dragons and Wyrms was unleashed in full strenght and he brought a lot of woe to the elves, men and dwarfs of Beleriand. The battle itself began by Morgoth sending out rivers of flame and poisonous fumes from Thangorodrim that burned the frozen fields of Ard-galen before Glaurung and Balrogs came out of fires crushing the remaining forces of Noldor followed by endless armies of orcs. The assault was so strong and devastating that elven forces never fully recovered in years ahead and many of noble elves, men and dwarves perished during its course...
With this painting I wanted to showcase sheer terror and destruction of this crushing assault. Here you can see a remainder of Nordor army on the brinks of Dorthonion unsuccessfully trying to contain this crushing wave of evil forces. Glaurung, Gothmog, Balrogs, and many Orcs are shown here coming as the unstoppable river of flames from Thangorodrim. I'm pretty happy with the way this painting turned out. Hope you'll like it too. Cheers!