Fiddling with the Finrod's Song translation continues, and both r_blackcat and the Neuromancer of kargicq have now put in so much time and effort and thought into it that I am really beginning to hope it might actually end up as a proper translation rather than me going 'AND HERE IS WHAT I THINK THIS MEANS! ALSO, POETRY!' . The googledoc is still a work in progress but I'll probably do another LJ post and flock the old one once there is a more or less finished version. Also, I have now learned a number of Russian words, and some of them aren't 'doom' 'oath', 'foe' or 'curse'!
I drew a pastel Sauron. I am still not terribly good at getting a likeness, but...
I know that the Red Eye is *probably* a Third Age thing, from after Sauron was squished in the Downfall of Numenor, but I wanted a way of identifying him, so I decided it probably started life as a sort of heraldic device. I'm not sure why the scar - I don't think it's canonical, is it?
I photographed this once in a north light, (above) and then again a few seconds later, in a south light (below). Both were in shade, with shade white balance, so it's interesting to see the difference the light made to the camera.
I drew a pastel Sauron. I am still not terribly good at getting a likeness, but...
I know that the Red Eye is *probably* a Third Age thing, from after Sauron was squished in the Downfall of Numenor, but I wanted a way of identifying him, so I decided it probably started life as a sort of heraldic device. I'm not sure why the scar - I don't think it's canonical, is it?
I photographed this once in a north light, (above) and then again a few seconds later, in a south light (below). Both were in shade, with shade white balance, so it's interesting to see the difference the light made to the camera.
Comments
If you want a canonical background for the scar, it could be left over from the duel with Huan (not the site of the main wound Huan inflicted, if I remember that right, but it sounds as if there might have been more than one scar...). Well, that would be assuming this is after the duel, which it wouldn't be, I guess, if it's meant to be set in Tol-in-Gaurhoth itself. Or maybe Aegnor or Angrod got a blow in before they died?
Anyway, I think you caught the expression very well!
The scar is in the video, so it's too early for it to be Huan. Might be Aegnor or Angrod, or I seem to remember anna_wing mentioning a tradition of Beren injuring Sauron with an arrow?
I dearly wish I had time to join the translation fun (although people with far more insight than I are now on board, poking around at this kind of thing is a favorite timesink of mine).