“ And in all crafts of hand they (Noldor) delighted also and their masons built many towers tall and slender, and many halls and houses of marble.” The History of Middle-Earth, Volume 10 – Morgoth’s Ring.Īnd, above all, their love for the beauty of nature was infinite: it is, in fact, timeless and un-aging, just like them.
They were basically immortal they were very light and elegant on their feet, yet incredibly strong they invented music and poetry, languages and words… they essentially had an incredible interest in learning and creating – craft was one of their many abilities. I will try to make it easier with schemes, more than architectural plans.Įlves were the First Born, Children of Eru Ilúvatar himself, and for this reason they were considered the wisest and fairest race of Arda. I will not draw detailed technical plans, because I can understand not all of you can read that kind of drawings. It is only a fun way to relate something that comes from the pen of a genius (and the pencil of two artists) to our reality.
This is by no means an accurate atlas of what they were thinking when writing, drawing, creating. Keep in mind: the material and the ideas you will find here, do not represent Tolkien’s thoughts and Peter Jackson’s view of things (or John Howe and Alan Lee’s). You can do it reading The Silmarillion, or The History of Middle-Earth, if you have not already, or… bear with me and read these few, poor lines.
I’ve been thinking how to treat this style, since there are many common elements between the different settlements we know, and I have decided to start with a short and general view first during the next weeks ( months?) I will focus more on some peculiar Elven places (I have a nice parallel in mind for Mirkwood and my fingers are hitching to write it).įirst thing first: if we want to understand the style of the Elves and their ways of constructions, we need to understand their inner selves, first. But I’m back and I’m here with a slightly shorter article about the Elven architecture. My apologies for the lack of updates in the last months – real life happened. Good day to you all, friends, old and new!