Lord of the Rings Drawing Challenge 

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The Lore Librarian: "Gothmog." Everyone Else: "??????" Me: "Yes, Gothmog, king of the Balrogs, killer of Feanor, slain by Ecthelion at the fall of Gondolin"

Tolkien was the original Lore Librarian

"Why can't you just take a boat to the undying lands?" Well you know Legolas DID stay in Middle Earth until Gimli got old and other stuff, but then they literally said fork it at the rules of the elves and built a BOAT and brought Gimli to the undying lands. Gimli was the first/only dwarf in the undying lands.

I love already being so deep into this lore to the level of being among those cursed beings who view Sauron as Melkor’s Pretty Boy lieutenant who the Gods literally cursed into not being allowed to be pretty anymore after he seduced himself into the fall of Numenor, and watching people discover the Deep lore.

You all should draw what you think The Lore Librarian looks like.

Silent Hill *monsters* drawn in an Animal Crossing style Thanks deep diamond universe

The "what's a Manwe" joke hit so goddamn hard that was excellent

*It's just all Gandalfs!* there's so much disappointment in that exclamation that it's almost palpable

So Fëanor is pretty much elf Gaston

@11:21 *deafening silence* (Is that just me or is that the actual video?)

There was a big argument back in the day with the LOTR fan community over whether Balrogs had wings, since there's only a weird oblique reference in the book to such.

Melkor was known as Morgoth or 'Dark Enemy' following his killing of Finwë and his theft of the Silmarils. He was never again called Melkor by elves or men. The Balrog were members of the Maiar that attuned their song to Melkor's when he introduced Discord to the singing before the throne of Eru Ilúvatar before the world was made. He was eventually cast out of the Door of Night by the Valar. The summary of Fëanor (son of Finwë, see above) as 'the asshole elf' is pretty apt. He was the whole reason that the elves went back to Middle Earth from Valinor. Basically everything that happens in The Lord of the Rings has a root cause of 'because Fëanor was a dickbag.' Galadriel, who was his niece and especially good at reading people's hearts, didn't trust or like him at all. The Istari (wizards) were the five most powerful, wise, and trusted Maiar who were sent to Middle Earth by the Valar to seek out and work against Sauron. They were forbidden to reveal the extent of who and what they were to the world, though. The blue wizards traveled to the east and were never seen again. One of Tolkein's pet thoughts about his lore was that no one should know everything, even the author. He believed that there should always be mystery, and the fate of the blue wizards was one of those things that he never clarified. The reason that not everyone just takes a boat to the undying lands is that they were removed from the world by the Valar. You can only get there if the Valar let you go.

Tolkien actually calls every one of his characters "Assholes" in the Extended Universe

those few seconds of silence made me realize that they are really good at keeping a conversation going without any pauses

"They're all just Gandalfs!!! He's got an orb. He's got a ferret. This guy's holding... like his pubes or something!" -Jacob hahaha

Nathan is actually quite right. In later works Tolkien said that if not for the Blue Wizards, the Free People would have been overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of enemies from the east and south.

Alrighty lads, let’s get some super villains doing a sweaty 80’s workout routine led by the most notorious fit villain of all, Richard Simmons!

Ah yes, the council of five wizards. The White, the Grey, the Brown, the Blue, and the other Blue. WHO PICKED THESE COLORS

that forum posts is wrong, the silmarilli were NOT reproducable, even were the two trees restored. they DID consume a measure of feanors power, and the mastery with which they were constructed is something none even amongst the valar could replicate. they were singular and absolutely priceless, as priceless as the trees from which their captured light shone in the first place. also, tristan should definitely have mentioned that the force and potence of his spirit was such that the act of his birth turned his mothers body to ash. the name feanor literally translates as Spirit of Fire.

My favorite Lord of the Rings lore is the wizards The gods sent five wizards to help Good win against Sauron One's pretty good One turned evil One lived in the woods, apparently forgetting what he was supposed to be doing And two of them just fucked off

D&D monsters with the most ridiculous names (like the Aboleth, the modron, the gibbering mouther, and the flumph)

Could you please draw Magic the Gathering cards based off of their names? That would be neat if so.

"Oops! All Gandalfs." That cracked me up. I'd eat that cereal

Feanor could easily be singing 'Agony' from Into the Woods. At least that's what I was thinking of the entire time Julia drew him :D

Actually, Fëanor was pretty confident that he couldn't make any more Silmarils: "For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest. It may be that I can unlock my jewels, but never again shall I make their like; and if I must break them, I shall break my heart, and I shall be slain; first of all the Eldar in Aman." He was a bit of a drama queen and still a dick for not giving up the Silmarils, which could have saved the two trees and restored light to Aman.

Did I hear Warhammer 40k? SUMMON THE LORE LIBRARIAN!

11:22 This was the most awkward time ever in Drawfee! They were completely silent for 10 seconds straight 😂

I kind of assumed Durin's Bane lost his mind when he was in the depths of Moria for so long without seeing any of his kind, corrupted or otherwise.

Gollum was in the cave for 500 years, yes, Balrogs are fallen Angels and used to be like Gnadalf, also, Gandalf's horse is also an angel and basically his cousin, Sauron was one of the Angels as well, Morgoth was more like a fallen Archangel

Please draw children show characters (i.e Teletubbies, Dora, Blue's Clues, etc.) in a post-apocalyptic/Mad Maxesque style

I actually applauded when Jacob drew Pallando's pipe-smoke middle finger. That was just too good.

That feeling when Drawfee does an episode on your niche interest and you have to sit on your hands and scream internally to avoid vomiting your vast, pent-up store of trivia and enthusiasm all over the comments... BUT I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU PASSED UP "TELEPORNO", THE NAME OF AN ACTUAL ASS ELF IN ACTUAL CANON. Also, can confirm: all of Tolkien's peers including C.S. Lewis knew him to be a giant dorkus nerd. Also also "HOW MUCH DOES A MANWË" HOW DARE YOU I AM DYING Also also also I genuinely dig your Blue Wizards headcanon I'm so upset y'all somehow came up with a feasible and interesting character theory without knowing anything about the istari and basically FORCING me to make fanart of it...

About the thing with Feanor and the boats: There were this race of sea Elves, who made the best boats ever. They loved these boats as much a Feanor loved the Silmarils. Feanor said "gimmie the boats, I want to use them" they said "no" and so he killed all of them. The first time that an elf had ever been killed by anything but an orc. He killed all of them, used the boats to sail to a place, and then BURNED THE BOATS FOR NO REASON. About the undying lands: Some guys - Aragorns ancestors - tried to sail there and they got obliterated by God. God, aka Illuvitar, said "nobody can go there if I don't put you there", these guys got cockey and tried it. Their boats got sunk, their home city got smashed into the sea, and almost all of them died. Nobody else tried it.

As somebody who has dedicated years of their life to Tolkiens work, I can happily say you got everything wrong. AND I MEAN EVERYTHING

"The Song of Durin" is one of my favourite poems. I would absolutely love an adaptation of LOTR with all the boring poetry and singing given the royal treatment, instead of the combat. The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen, No words were laid on stream or stone When Durin woke and walked alone. He named the nameless hills and dells; He drank from yet untasted wells; He stooped and looked in Mirrormere, And saw a crown of stars appear, As gems upon a silver thread, Above the shadow of his head. The world was fair, the mountains tall, In Elder Days before the fall Of mighty kings in Nargothrond And Gondolin, who now beyond The Western Seas have passed away: The world was fair in Durin's Day. A king he was on carven throne In many-pillared halls of stone With golden roof and silver floor, And runes of power upon the door. The light of sun and star and moon In shining lamps of crystal hewn Undimmed by cloud or shade of night There shone for ever fair and bright. There hammer on the anvil smote, There chisel clove, and graver wrote; There forged was blade, and bound was hilt; The delver mined, the mason built. There beryl, pearl, and opal pale, And metal wrought like fishes' mail, Buckler and corslet, axe and sword, And shining spears were laid in hoard. Unwearied then were Durin's folk; Beneath the mountains music woke: The harpers harped, the minstrels sang, And at the gates the trumpets rang. The world is grey, the mountains old, The forge's fire is ashen-cold; No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's halls; The shadow lies upon his tomb In Moria, in Khazad-dûm. But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

Scp wiki roulette please please god I have been asking for more than a year and I will never stop until the monster Mom julea draw

well now I just want artists drawing warhammer 40k stuff... even Julia might not be able to out monster some of their stuff

Draw the drawfee gang as a bad boy band!

Fëanor, the Asshole elf. That's actually weirdly accurate XD

A note on Faenor. HES THE GOD DAMNED VAMPIRE ELF! He drained his mothers Elf essence and basically became a double elf. His name is Spirit of Fire. YOU GAVE JULIA THE VAMPIRE ELF AND DID NOT SPEAK OF IT!

LORDS OF THE DRAWFEE CHANNEL, I HUMBLY REQUEST THAT YOU DRAW "NORMAL" THINGS THAT HAPPEN DURING THE DAY.

I was just sitting there, thinking about how underappreciated the silmarillion is (as you do), and this showed up on my dash and I am happier than a pig in mud

FINALLY!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You don’t know how long I’ve been suggesting this.

One tiny mistake: FEANOR IS RAVEN-HAIRED THOU NOOBS

I want so bad to see a Middle Earth Criminal Investigation series starring Alatar and Polando! Great draws and great work!

Rewatching this after I know way more about Middle Earth has increased the hilarity tenfold

Hey. Hey DRAWFEE. Heeeey. Can you draw nervous dinosaurs applying for office jobs? Please

My mind is deteriorating and so I've lost my grasp on time but a distant voice from within tells me that it's been a year. I no longer possess the physical strength to kneel, I lie atop the rocky unforgiving surface of this precipice, my hands and feet bloodied and withered, my mouth growing dryer with despair and my stomach roaring to be sated but nonetheless I continue to beckon to the Great Porfo and the other almighty Drawfee Gods of Chaos and humbly request for the hundreth..thousandth...oh..oh..I cannot remember how many times I have asked for this..the hunger consumes my thoughts but know that it's definitely a large amount with like a hundred zeros..I ask that you please draw the Seven Deadly Sins (NOT THE ANIME) as Seven Dwarfs and maybe also Snow White as Satan or a demon princess

But what about... Drawfee draws SCP's they never heard of or Drawfee draws random SCP's

I think a great idea for a challenge would be drawing professional wrestlers based on nothing but their names and maybe a light description of their gimmick. Some possible examples: -Pentagon Jr. -Ultimo Dragon -The Great Muta -Flash Morgan Webster -The Velveteen Dream -EVIL -Tommy Dreamer -Sgt. Slaughter -The Iron Sheik -Authors of Pain -Gorilla Monsoon The possibilities are honestly endless.

Speaking of Tarot cards, can you guys make some new cards to add to the tarot deck? Don't forget to include what they mean.

With Bowserette blowing up right now, draw non-Mario characters from any media as a Peachette character

Here's a suggestion for the two Damned souls of Caldwell and Nathan. Draw the personification Of the almost slurs that Caldwell used, near the end that CH sketch, during his time in the living realm.

Thanks for sharing this leaked concept art from the Amazon LOTR series

Recently started listening to Not Another D&D podcast, Caldwell, this is great. And yours and Nathan's new show, cartoon hell is just so funny cant wait to see more

I'm sure the "Gaston" song from Beauty and the Beast was actually written by Feanor first :D

11:21 that long pause......

That Elf is absolutely pre-character development Fabian Seacaster!

The one with the blue wizards is definitely a sitcom and there is definitely an episode where pallando has to for whatever reason sleuth alone and confront her insecurities about her intelligence

No Tom Bombadil....

The Lore Librarian is eternal

Tolkien was a huge linguistic nerd and here’s some obscure deep lore; the different languages of elves means that the guy who helped Sauron/Annatar make the rings names his group of smiths a double meaning joke in his two languages, so they can either be like, “a brotherhood” , or “The Semen Squad” And Tolkien absolutely knew this and so did Celebrimbor because he spoke both languages involved but if I recall correctly his smiths only spoke the one.

Anyone else think that it’s really cool that the Universe in Tolkien’s books was created from beautiful music, sung by the angels(Ainur)? Also this video makes me want to read the Silmarillion again, even though I never finished it the first time, and I don’t have the attention span to read that.

gee jacob! how come the lore librarian lets you draw TWO characters?

I loved this episode. But I would also love if you draw extreme towel rituals. Please. I've been asking for forever oh my gosh aggggggh

This has definitely inspired my art brain. The blue wizards for me would be twins. I drew one with a torch and one with a lantern, both with blue lighting. Tear drops on their cheeks because they are blue and sad. One is more modern with a lantern while the other with the torch prefers the primitive arts of magic. I love these characters and I thank the Lore Librarian and everyone in the drawfee team for inspiring such a sad and beautiful non-Gandolf duo

Based on the picture of the five wizards you showed at the end, i would love you to draw each wizard in a "costume" based on their role in the universe (or on a role you give them based on their personality or whatever). Just like you did with Alatar & Pallando as the Buddy Cops.

Can you please draw the golden girls as a jrpg team?

Draw Bear in The Big Blue House characters in an anime style.

Everytime he does that voice I just expect him to say "skunk ape" and everyone go dead silent and burst with laughter like they did in the Cryptids episode

I love the new avatars! I also like how you usually give a bit more instructions to the drawer now.

In Tolkien’s universe there’s dark elves.... they just don’t have the gift of light and so can grow beards.... and clearly the gift of light keeps elves from being assholes

Please draw Adventure Time characters in the style of Fist of the North Star

I never realized I had so much patience to watch long videos without skipping once😂 You guys are the best!

I love these "drawing ______ characters we've never seen" videos. They're what got me into this awesome channel in the first place!

"What's a manway?" me: *windmill slam Like button*

I love lore librarian. I think you guys need to draw lore librarian...

Man, I've watched this vid, like, 8 times already and I just don't get sick of it. This is a great episode.

From all of us out there, thanks for all the Nathan love Jacob. Good day, and a happy whedon to ya.

The pronunciation of Sauron chills me more than the cry of a Nazgul

Is it me or is Gothmogg lookin' like a B-tech Ragnoros? Or is Ragnoros a B-tech Gothmogg? woah

Whoa, y'all are drawing one of my favorite properties of all time, and on my birthday, no less! Thanks for the unintentional birthday present! I appreciate it.

Finally an episode with characters I've heard of and lore I know about! Yay!

"What?!?" "I don't know **shit** about Lord of the Rings!!" "Yeah!" God I laughed so hard. I'm good with just watching the movies haha.

Do you like salt? You should draw some salt...

This is one of my very favorite episodes. I’ve seen it so many times.

Jacob basically drew the wizard forms of Pearl and Amethyst from Steven Universe. New Drawfee idea! Wizard versions of Drawfee's favourite characters!

Could you please do more episodes on horror games? Like resident evil, outlast, the evil within etc? They tend to have some interesting designs (and names) that I think would work great in a drawing stuff based on their names episode

Warhammer 40k Characters you’ve never heard of please cheers

17:10 EXCEPT WHEN HE KILLED FINGON I WILL NEVER FORGIVE THAT. FINGON WAS BEST BOY

“Fuckin....Fëanor...you shithead” -finest and most accurate description of the whole silmarilian

Kirby but Silent Hill? Or do the opposite, please?

Here are some random Crossover/Amalgam/Style Mash-Up Ideas Attack on Titan + Tokyo Ghoul DBZ + One Piece Naruto + Pokemon Amazing World of Gumball + Persona 5 Gravity Falls + Adventure Time Power Rangers + Avatar: The Last Airbender Legend of Korra + The Avengers Mortal Kombat + X-men Matrix + Terminator Justice League + Mass Effect Star Wars Rebels + Halo Batman Beyond + Teen Titans (the good one) Generator Rex + Gears of War Star vs The Forces of Evil + Harry Potter Cross Ange + High School of the Dead Japanese Kaiju (Godzilla, Mothra, etc.) + Girls und Panzer Mirai Nikki + Kick-Ass Hellsing/Hellsing Ultimate + Rosario Vampire Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid + Skyrim Lord of the Rings + Monster Musume Sword Art Online + Devil is a Part Timer Overlord (Anime)+ Monster Hunter: World One Punch Man + My Hero Academia Transformers + Mobile Suit Gundam Guardians of the Galaxy + Darling in the Franxx Supernatural + Wicked City Ghost in the Shell + Seraph of the End Legend of Zelda + Ponyo Bayoneta + Gravity Rush Last Guardian + King Kong Final Fantasy (any of them) + Akira Nier: Automata + The Sky Crawlers Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance + Horizon Zero Dawn Mario + Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Witcher 3 + Spice and Wolf God of War 4 + Castelvania Seven Deadly Sins + Black Lagoon Game of Thrones + Fairy Tail Life is Strange + Danny Phantom Drifters + Spectacular Spider-man Vampire: The Masquerade-Bloodlines + Soul Eater Mix and match all you want

I loved this and there was too much that was wrong to actually point out unless you're a tryhard from hell. Loved seeing the deep dive into my favourite lore though!

This episode makes me so happy! My inner Tolkien nerd is geeking out hardcore

What's a Manwe? Discworld characters you've never heard of.

Drawfee you guys should draw your true forms

Pretty sure there was a second Gothmog in Lord of the Rings he was the orc captain that captured Osgiliath and dodged the boulder at the battle of Minas Tirith

People were very critical of fantasy in Tolkien's time because they basically thought it was just for kids. He wrote an amazing argument for it called On Fairy Stories. I highly recommend it!