Over Tea (Sansûkh)

Rae Terwilliger

Apr 11

I am once again asking you to check out Sansûkh by determamfidd.

Still in (but almost done with!) my recent Bagginshield study of the amazing tale linked above, and was struck with the need to draw Bilbo having tea with Thorin's mother, the lady Frís, daughter of Aís, Princess Under the Mountain and wife of Thráin. At one point, she literally drags Thorin off for a tea break and he remarks (internally) on the similarity of the treatment! She is a powerhouse, too, and I love her, so here we go.

Her bio, from the author's notes on the fic:

"Frís was the daughter of a wealthy Guildmaster, Folgar, and his musician wife Aís. She did not have the height of the great Longbeard families, being only 4'4". Her hair was wheat-gold, and her eyes a very striking blue. She was exceptionally intelligent, very perceptive and shrewd, but also extremely compassionate. Her craft was wire-working, and she also made strings and cords for instruments. She married Thráin son of Thrór quite young and bore three children, the two eldest of which inherited her blue eyes. Her great joy was her harp, a joy she passed on to her oldest son Thorin and her daughter Dís (her middle child, Frerin, preferred the fiddle). Frís was killed when the dragon attacked Erebor in 2770 TA."

(Also, my take on her based on both jeza-red's design and fishfingersandscarves' design for the "Sansûkh" comic!!)

This piece also protected by Glaze again

(This may be the last piece that I give the photographing-with-stuff treatment, though, as much as I like how I've brought that style of presentation together, over the years. I actually enjoy the slight distortion that the Glaze treatment gives my scanned pieces, being a vibe-cousin of when you can see the texture of the paper in my work, imho. But as much as it doesn't ruin the perception of the piece, the process feels more noticeable to me in this presentation, so everything from here on out might be scanned instead. We shall see. Either way, I am not going without it. I can't undo what work of mine has already been stolen by AI software, but the peace of mind - even if its a temporary one - that applying Glaze gives me is priceless. So, again, thank you thank you thank you everyone on the Glaze team.)

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