Tumblr crosspost (26 July 2020)

[anghraine]

I reblogged a detailed sketch of a possible design for Boromir's armor and the Stewards' iconography from lesbiansforboromir on Tumblr. In the text, they (rightly IMO) criticized the design for Gondor in the Jackson films as "bland unsaturated fantasy medieval europe."

I reblogged and added:

#sing the song of my people #it's like..... tolkien explicitly said that the inspirations for gondor were ancient egypt + byzantium + italy #which would be SO COOL #and they gave us... that #anyway these designs are gorgeous :)