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#1 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 05:32 PM

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#2 Pasidon

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 05:48 PM

That's one sweaty orc.

 

But I like it.  Maybe not the lips, though... I would expect them to show a bit more character, and not look so... human'y. 



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Posted 03 August 2014 - 08:32 PM

Honestly I need to work more on my lip-sculpting, you can see the... roughness of it.


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#4 Pasidon

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Posted 03 August 2014 - 10:10 PM

You like making dehydrated, nasty creatures.  And quite often, they aren't even conceived with much of a lip at all.  It's more like a mass of uneven, overlapping, wrinkled skin.  I could see this orc with a clumsy, crooked over-bite.  And maybe with some large teeth barely showing.  That also would give a bit of character, which is what your pieces often lack.



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Posted 04 August 2014 - 05:47 AM

I will consider that next time.


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Posted 04 August 2014 - 07:51 AM

Actually I like how it's more elven than orc. =D In Lord of the Rings it was considered that the orcs were corrupted elves (through torture) (hence their apparent longevity). I see this as one of the first elf/orcs.


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#7 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 01:25 PM

Of course, that what I was going for! ... that's what I intended ... right guys? ... okay, maybe not ... well, I tried.


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Posted 04 August 2014 - 03:38 PM

If you were actually going for some weird Tolkien-Darwinism thing, then I probably would have smacked you.



#9 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 07:23 PM

Why?


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Posted 04 August 2014 - 07:24 PM

I dunno.  



#11 Irenë Hawnetyne

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 07:59 PM

Thanks.


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#12 Lenwë

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 08:20 PM

So where did Sauron get all of these elves then?

 

Tolkien and his vague references... :glare:



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Posted 04 August 2014 - 08:41 PM

Oh no he's pretty clear on that. Morgoth lured them away from their kin soon after their awakening at Cuivienen and then throughout the Years of the Trees and the early First Age. 

 

But then, in later letters he wrote that the idea of orcs being corrupted elves wasn't very good and they were probably corrupted men instead.


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Posted 04 August 2014 - 10:15 PM

Yeah, it doesn't matter how much corruption and torture was used on the elves, I just can't believe that. Mostly because the Elves are supposed to be the first children of Iluvatar and have all elven grace and that stuff. Men are really a lot more susceptible to this sort of thing.

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Posted 04 August 2014 - 10:17 PM

Right... but taking Eru's creations and corrupting them was the one thing Morgoth was really, really good at. 


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Posted 04 August 2014 - 10:22 PM

Yeah... Balrog and Sauron spring to mind

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Posted 05 August 2014 - 06:08 AM

And, if you follow that through, other characters were marred or, in a sense, corrupted, like Fëanor and for Sauron, there was Gollum and the Nazgul. The greatest weapons Sauron and Morgoth had were the most proud and strong men, who were unfortunately too proud to understand their own weaknesses.


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