Mending in Rivendell by MirachRavaia on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

This comic was created for the Tolkien Mailing Competition.

The task: make a comics strip: one story in three pictures. The scene has to be one mentioned in The Hobbit but not described in detail by Tolkien (e.g. we know there was a huge rainfall and everybody was angry but their actual conversations have not been recorded). There should be at least three dwarves and one butterfly in the comics.

The sentence from the book I used: "Their clothes were mended as well as their bruises, their tempers and their hopes."(in Rivendell)
(The "tempers" part is only implied - Elrond certainly made sure that Estel will not hear more of such words from Thorin & comp.)

When Thorin's company stayed in Rivendell in 2941, Estel (Aragorn) was 10 years old and fostered by Elrond. The woman in the 1st picture is Gilraen (yes, she's mending Thorin's pants). The dwarves dragging Thorin in the 2nd frame are Fili and Kili. All of their designs are according to the book, not movie.

The coloring and shading is very sloppy, you see, I'm in the middle of NaNoWriMo here, no time for a better drawing...