Silmarillion Cover Concept

Quick preliminary sketch for a painting I'm currently in the opening planning stages of, featuring the scene where the sons of feanor attack beren and luthien in the woods. I figure I'll really plan this one out beforehand and probably use models (something i don't usually do). for some reason i cant help but see this one as a cover for the silmarllion.

 the relationship between men and the eldar was probably the closest part of his whole mythos to tolkien's heart (and in no instance closer than the love between beren and luthien, whose names are inscribed on his and his wife's tombs) and i've always loved this particular scene; it fits so well into that classic trope where love blooms between a man and a woman from across racial, economic, social (or in this case specieal) lines, and the girl's kinsmen/suitor(s) set upon the invading male in this fury of jealousy and outrage. you see it all the time; romeo and juliet, titanic, the karate kid, pocahontas, avatar, the list of iterations goes on and on.

I've been doing a a good bit of concept related preliminary work for this piece, and I'll probably do a lot more, so expect to see some more of that.

oh and for anyone attempting to read the side notes, the last line (which got cut off in the scan) reads "beren is a ragged looking caveman by comparrison"