Glorfindel! First elf I’ve drawn (though not the first that appears– I guess I skipped the elves from Woodhall). He appears briefly, taking Frodo to Rivendell, in a role given to Arwen in the Peter Jackson movies, which I think was a good decision. And he’s around during the Council of Elrond, I think. I’m going to try to give the elves of different places clear color-coding in their costumes. Rivendell will probably be predominantly oranges, yellows; Mirkwood green and brown; Lothlorien white, gray, maybe blue.

What I’ve come up with for the way elves look: Face conforms more closely to a single curved plane, pointed chin. Nose curves to be roughly parallel to plane of face. Big eyes. Ears extend against head; no earlobes, they appear to form a contiguous line with jawline. Upper lip doesn’t have that indention-thing. No facial hair or eyebrows. Body generally stretched out, thin, smooth. Hopefully a little weird, a little inhuman, but still with the elegance they’re clearly seen to have in the text.

Next will be Glóin, father of Gimli. Stuck on Elrond right now or else he’d be next.