Scion of Kings - Gil-galad as son of Fingon (col)

Ereinion Gil-galad, the sixth and last High King of the Noldor. While in the published "Silmarillion" he is the son of Fingon, JRRT's latest idea was to make him the son of Orodreth. Illustration to a polemic about his parentage in the jubilee 20th issue of the almanac "Aiglos" (Polish language issue), with the son of Fingon at the top and the son of Orodreth mirrored in the bottom. Base for this was a mirrored image, colors added with filter in Photoshop. Done in Painter & Photoshop.

Ereinion means "Scion of Kings" thus the title, a words play between the epessë and the complicated parentage. By the way I recommend Tehta's humorous story which inspired me to make a double-portrait of the "son kings", not just a portrait of one parentage variation and also to give such title - The Scion of Kings by Tehta 

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Update 2022.
Hair color mystery solved in the Nature of Middle-earth: Gil-galad had silver hair