Eowyn and the Nazgul Challenge Submissions on The ArtOrder

[Lalaith]

"Still she did not blench: maiden of the Rohirrim, child of
kings, slender but as a steel-blade, fair yet terrible."

Too many of these have a blenching look about them.
I'd like to see one where she is standing up straight, calling Wiki a foul dwimmerlaik to his face and laughing defiantly...as Tolkien has her do.
Like Mith, I prefer the Spearing. Partly because it shows her doing what was I believe her main aim...defending the body of her beloved uncle from being despoiled.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Like Mith, I prefer the Spearing. Partly because it shows her doing what was I believe her main aim...defending the body of her beloved uncle from being despoiled.

Yes, Spearing's drawing looks rather nice. At least Eowyn: the Wiki is a bit weird.

[Mithalwen]

Yes the floating eyes don't quite do it for me - I think maybe they are a bit low for where they should be if he had a visible head? but Eowyn is pretty much spot on.

[Galadriel55]

I think that if you could combine the Eowyn in Spearing's picture and the Nazgul in this one, you'd get a pretty good picture.

[Mithalwen]

The crown seems too low again and too much like a spinning top or a littleUFO! I think maybe I like Seward's reflected WK best of them.

[Alfirin]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

The crown seems too low again and too much like a spinning top or a littleUFO! I think maybe I like Seward's reflected WK best of them.

I sort of depends. Not all crowns sit at the same level on the head, if the crown is the sort where it sits just above the eyes the eyes are sort of in the right place in the Spearing picture. In the other one It look to me like the perspective may be tilted somewhat upwards (say if you imagine the person seeing this is behind the WK, on his knees, or it's Merry) Also the WK cloak in that one looks as if it has some collar to it (or the rumpled down wrinkles of a hood) so the top of the cloth may be some distance above where the actual neck would be particualry in the back (where we are seeing from).

What I have some problem with in the Spearing picture is the winged beast. Aside from the fact it has a very thick (and rather short) neck, the armor it is wearing appears to be a series of linked plates. With that kind of armor, Eowyn would have to have the strength of Hercules to actually send the beasts head flying (think about the kind of upper body strength needed in old time executioners to cut through an ordinary human neck in one stroke). She could cut the head free, of course, but her sword would bounce against either the plate itself or the links between the plates and those links would keep the head more or less in place. If it moved at all, it would simply flop down and hang there (and given where Eowyn is standing, if it did that, Eowyn would likey get the head full in the chest (correction, in the back over the head) and be knocked sprawling)