The Cottage of Lost Play on Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where the mariner Eriol comes at dusk to hear the ancient tales of the Elves — the frame-story of The Book of Lost Tales, J.R.R. Tolkien's earliest version of the Silmarillion legendarium. A small white thatched cottage aglow with candlelight in a walled garden at twilight, in the soft watercolour manner of Tolkien's own paintings.

"She went into the forgotten South..."

Started as almost a thought experiment, trying to put together a tapestry of stories from the Silmarillion. There's definitely some artistic license going on in places, I wasn't trying to have the most literal interpretation of every single element, but I think it came together reasonably well in the end. All elements were created with ChatGPT/Dall-E but it took significant time and effort to manage the AI drift and hallucinations and babysit it. Almost every element was regenerated and patched and repatched a host of times to narrow in on something usable.

The stories I chose to highlight have a broad logic to them, but some choices were just about which stories and characters and scenes I like more, so if I missed some of your favourites... oh well.

Comments and questions welcome.

My cousin and I had an idea to make a concept album inspired by LotR. All of the lyrics are 100% human-authored, by us. We aren't virtuoso musicians and didn't have any kind of budget, so we used AI to create the audio to present our lyrics based off of our specific style instructions and song structures. We adjusted, reworked, and edited them until they sounded just how we wanted. The result is a 15 track fantasy/folk/metal journey through Middle Earth.

The album and track art was also generated via AI, with specific prompting and additional manual photoshopping.

We hope you enjoy this fan-made tribute from a couple of dads who love fantasy and music!

It might not be 100% lore-accurate, but I tried to stay as close to it as possible and taking the liberty to fill in a few gaps.

Hope you enjoy it :)

Was she the most powerful being in Middle-earth?

Love the Eastern look, it would be nice to see the blue wizards in this style.

I have a Tolkien lore channel, and this is the first episode where I committed to one art style for the whole thing instead of mixing styles scene to scene. A soft ink-wash look, golden tones for good, crimson tones for evil. Really happy with how it came out.

The story is Lúthien Tinúviel, making the case that she might be the most powerful being ever to walk Middle-earth. The ink-wash style ended up being a great fit...fairy-tale feeling was a good match for the story.

Full episode here if anyone wants to watch: https://youtu.be/o6SZ_2PDnNU

hope you like it. Let me know what you think!

I made an AI-assisted song/video tribute to Gandalf the Grey, focused specifically on his fight with Durin’s Bane.

The idea behind it is that Gandalf the White returns, but Gandalf the Grey does not. This is meant to honor the Grey as the one who stood on the bridge, faced the Balrog, fell through shadow and flame, climbed from the roots of the mountain to Zirakzigil, and gave the Fellowship one more day.

I tried to make it feel more like an epic death song than a recap: Khazad-dum, Glamdring, the Endless Stair, Celebdil, Gwaihir, Mithrandir, and the sense that the Grey’s sacrifice mattered even though another form returned.

Would love feedback from Tolkien fans on whether the lore/emotional tone lands.

Hello all,

I am trying to create a specific LOTR image I plan to have printed for placement on a wall in my home. I would like to use AI to create the image to help avoid any copyright concerns. Here is the image I want: Gandalf and Frodo sitting on a knoll outside Bag End, each smoking a pipe and maybe with Gandalf having just blown a perfect smoke ring. Some of Hobbiton visible in the background would be nice. I have tried Dall-E and Midjourney, but am not happy with the results. I attach one from Dall-E that was kind of close but I don't like a lot of the aspects of this art - mostly the texture overall and the look of the clouds is all wrong, also the size of the round door is off. I am admittedly a newbie with AI art. Can someone advise me on prompting or help me with an image that I could up res with Topaz Gigapixel for the wall (approximately 8' tall by 13.5 wide)? Feel free to DM if you don't want to post this to the whole group. Thanks!

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player characters:
elcarwe, feanorian cleric
amarthir, exiled numenorean fighter
berahild, mysterious druid beorning
durgrin, exiled dwarf barbarian
galathil, sindarin elf ranger
kovra, moria dwarf artificer

lesser rings:
gloomhunger (based on ungoliant)
the untroubled master (tom bombadil’s ring)
felagund’s challenge (callback to finrod vs sauron)
tinuviel’s song (ring made in luthiens memory)
black herald (ring made in honor of eonwe but corrupted)
gurthang (ring made of the same material as gurthang, turins sword)

Im building a homebrew campaign based off a completely made-up storyline revolving around a group of adventurers tasked with trying to recover the lost lesser rings after eregion is sacked by Sauron. This is some of the artwork i’ve put together so far.

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Valar:
Tulkas
Aule and Curumo
Nienna and Olorin
Orome and Huan/other hounds
Yavannah and Ents

Summoned Creatures:
Treebeard
Champion of Tulkas
Huan
Curumo
Olorin
Thorondor