The Last Stand of Anarion

This is the first of many, many pictures you'll see that will probably never be finished. No severe reason really, I just have other stuff to do for the most part.

So this is from Tolkien lore, more specifically the Battle of the Last Alliance from the Silmarillion. Here we see Anarion, younger brother of Isildur and youngest son of Elendil, during his final battle in which he's finally brought down. For those who aren't aware, I have a love of the armor designs produced by WETA for the LOTR movies that borders on fetish-like obsession. So this was a prime opportunity to give my own subtle twist on the designs, since Anarion himself was omitted from the films.

A big part of the Numenorean race which wasn't really shown at all in the films (with the exception of the Argonath) is that they loved to use axes. So I wanted this pic to really focus on his axe, since they seemed to be non-existant in Gondorian military on film. And beards! I love beards on Numenoreans, and not wussy five-o'clock Aragorn shadows either. Countless fanboy arguments drove this point home.

Eventually I'll continue the pic, adding many more orcs to give the claustrophobic chaos that was originally intended, but I have my doubts it'll ever be colored, due to my not really wanting to lose any significant detail.

So there he stands.