That is lovely. I like this drawing a lot.

This is very beautiful.

This is so pretty. I REALLY love the iridescent shading on the fabric.

beautiful work and gorgeous eyes, great job

your artwork is beautiful as always!

REPO!!!!! :D Awesome, not many people know of it :) Beautiful picture, as well, I love the way you do eyes :)

Chase the morning. Am I right?
I love it, it's really pretty.

Very beautiful

Chase The Morning + this = win.
your art is gorgeous. I love the colours especially on that pale tree in the background since it makes the red rose pop so much

your art is amazing and love the repo quiet

Ah, gotta love that classic rose symbolism.

I have to say, it's the eyes that are pulling me in. Just can't get enough of them! Their gorgeous!

Aw, now this is beautiful. You always do such wonderfully elegant art with Luthien, and I think your personal art is often your most powerful. I'm afraid I don't know a word of Elvish-I'm terrible at languages-but I love the quote at the top of the description box.

oh wow that looks really beautiful Luthien :D i really like the combination of colors you used in this one :)

Beautiful and stunning.

This is such a lovely feminine piece. I love her expression, the softness on such a normally fierce creature.

This is nice~

She's soooooo pretty. It's the eyes that really makes this drawing come to life. Wonderful work. :)

Captivating and beautiful all at once.

This is beautiful

I love it

Woow she looks simply beautiful ^^

I love how you draw hair... and feathers

I love everything about this.. her face, the peacock feathers, the rose, the framing, the colors.. it's all so perfect together!!

VERY elegent and beautiful piece of you.

Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to learn how to write Elvish?

Not very long, I have a book that tells me how. hehe

The secret here is that the words are english, written with elvish letters - it's a transliteration, not a translation. It reads "The sheltered rose needs a little room to bloo..." Each letter stands for a single english letter, except that "th" and "sh" are each one letter.

Wow, she's beautiful! Very lovely artwork

I;m sorry, I'm geeking over your elvish when I should be admiring your lovely picture

I rarely see full-vowel modes used, although it makes sense for a border. It's also easier to read, since you don't have to figure out whether the vowels go before or after the consonants.

Heh, I'm still kinda learning, but the book I was using as a reference had them that way and I find it easier to write that way than trying to figure out all the little dots and slashes and stuff. I'm sure there are errors but most people won't know the difference. ;) lol

No errors. Your choice to de-emphasize ascenders causes it to look a little different from what I usually see. This is mainly in your "s"s, which are usually written with the bowl on the line, like an open "6". If there had been an "h" in the text, it would have looked a lot like an "e". Considering how easy it is to swap "t" and "p", "d" and "b", "m" and "n", (I do that all the time, and so does Christopher Tolkien), you did very well.

Thanks. :) Maybe I'll poke you sometime to help me out with more writing, its something I'd like to do more in my art but I only have that one book to refer to, cuz when I try to look stuff up online I get all sorts of confused. >u<

Yes, much of the online stuff is even more pedantic than Tolkien's appendices. Here is a very basic one: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/jmtr...../index.en.html
Probably not as good as what you have, but I couldn't find anything between that and <eyes glaze over>.

Feel free to note me any time. I'll try to keep my geekery down to a dull roar

Ooh thanks, I added it to my favorites for future reference. :) I should do something like what that guy does, only instead of tattoos do elvish badges. Hmmm....

Here's one more link, showing basic calligraphy methods for writing the letters: http://at.mansbjorkman.net/teng_calligraphy.htm
I found it accessible, despite being on one of the pedantic sites, but that may be because I took a calligraphy course in dim prehistory (7th grade).