Silmarillion: Elwing Rising

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A scene from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion: During the attack on the Havens of Sirion Elwing cast herself into the sea ([link]) and was rescued from the waves by Ulmo.

For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved.

(J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, Chapter 24, Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath)

Photoshop 7; +2 hours

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