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Published: 2013-03-04 21:54:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 4824; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 36
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Balrogs' heads a go-go!Here you have an exercise of exploration taking an already known design as a base. In this case, I took the Lord of the Rings movie Balrog and made the other six, including Gothmog (which you can see in the center of the picture). I even imagined how Lungorthin the white balrog would be (even when Tolkien didn't portrayed him in his books), just out of fun.
Made in Ps CS5.
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Didn't portray him as in he never got the stoplight and only mentioned in the appendices or not a Tolkien creation at all?
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"But Lungorthin Lord of Balrogs on the mouth smote him, and Morgoth smiled"
this is the only mention of him, in The Children Of Hurin.
Although, from what I could find out, the pale/blue "design" has been assumed from his (sindarin) name:
"Lun" - either ulun - monster/creature or luin - blue
"gor" - gor - fear/pain
"thin" - thinn - gray/pale
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Wow, something I didn't know. But Lord of Balrogs? I thought that title was given to Gothmog.
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Yep, that's the confusing part. Some people think he's just /a/ lord of balrogs, not /the/ lord of balrogs; some think Lungorthin and Gothmog are the same character, just in different states of Tolkien's ideas.
Whatever, we have a blue Balrog, that's all that counts
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Spot on. Even when there are some people who defend that Lungorthin and Gothmog are the same, I thought that it would be funny to make them different individuals so I pictured Lungorthin as an "albino" balrog.
Thanks for your comments!
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