Thambë Carnistirwa
(Carnistir's Room)
What is something
Elves are good at? Reflecting on the past. Well, here I am reflecting on the past.
After I first read
the Silmarillion, I suddenly became very interested in
Tolkien's world and characters. I often played Minecraft at the time, and I created a new world where I only used
Quenya. I even switched the game's language to it (
which is possible!).
I changed my username to Carnistir (Caranthir's name in Quenya), and built a lot of interesting things. My main creation was a massive underground
fortress, of which only the domed top showed. But even this dome was hidden, deep underwater in a huge lake. Looking back at it, my grammar was probably not the best, and
Fëanor would be most certainly facepalming reading my signs, named
items and
books in the game.
Back then, I didn't have anyone to share this interest of mine with. Nor did I really want to, at the time. But now that I have found people who share this interest, I wouldn't go back at all.
So this new drawing is a little piece of the past to share with you. It's coloured only in pencil, as I would have done at the time, and Caranthir wears purple, gold, black and red (which is also how I imagined him at the time).
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The furniture and items in the room are mostly based on things in my Minecraft world.
The parchment on the wall shows the dome at the top of my hidden fortress. The words above are 'turmen carnistirwa' ('Carnistir's
realm') in
Tengwar, as writing with these letters was another interest of mine back then.
The hanging banner on the right is one I created in the game to represent Carnistir's underwater realm.
Below is Carnistir's actual bedroom in the game, and you can see the similarities.
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I took another picture of my drawing with my phone (
the one above is a scan). Here it is, just to compare. It improves the sharpness of the lines, but the colours are less accurate (it makes poor Moryo dreadfully pale!).
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