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Crossover: Legacy of Kain-Tolkien: Silmarillion
Edit: Did major changes to the face, and worked out better the details on the whole figure.
So he's Gil-Galad (his name means 'Shining Star' ), the last great king of the noldorim in the Second Age of Middle-Earth.
He was the bearer of the ring Vilya. The elves used the rings of power to preserve their fading glory, but defeating Sauron and destroying the One Ring meant their rings will lose their power, and their kind have to leave Middle-Earth, or stay there to face their extinction.
Gil-Galad got killed in the first war of the rings in the end of the Second Age.
He has the appearance of Kain from the Legacy of Kain series, it was a fun work to make his character recognizable with changed hair and skin colour.
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to anyone who like it!
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Simply the best, this Gil-Galad/Kain is awesome!!
Elven armours suits very well on Kain!
His look reminds me somekind of Dark Elf XD
HA , TAKE THAT LEGOLAS!!
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Thank you!
Kain rather reminds me to the elves from Silmarillion, they were dangerous and tough warriors, and their power-thirst caused them so many trouble. And Kain looks very similar to an elf in appearance and nature
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You're totally right, I've read the Silmarillion too,
but never thought about similarities with LoK XD
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This looks really fantastic. I can imagine it simply as Gil-galad with the film's armor XD Love the coloring.
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Thank you! 
The game character I painted has such a proud and elf-like features he was fitting to be painted as Gil-Galad, and I like the armour design from the movies too.
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you're welcome
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Fantastic work. I love the combination of colours.
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Thank you so much!
I'm glad you like it, I trued to give back the gloomy atmosphere of Mordor with it.
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Ez nagyon jรณ! Jรณl nรฉz ki, jรณk a szinei is!
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Hey great work, the detail and lighting is excellent. It looks like you replaced the earlier version.
Of course you must realize that it was only the high elves that were dependant upon the rings, the wood elves and Avari were completely unaffected by the fading of the rings.
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Ack! Updated!!
I adore his elven armour, so elegant and yet funcional for his battles. He looks poised and ready for anything
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Thank you!
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Suits him perfectly
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Aaaah! Kain is so pretty! Well, I guess this kind of cross-over was bound to happen eventually, seeing as you happen to be a great fan of both series... Still, it works out better than I would expect it too.
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Thank you! It was originally made for a contest 2 years ago, and the theme was crossovers, so it was easy to relate Kain to a proud warrior elven king
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Wow, this really captures the look of the nobleman Kain: heroic, arrogant (not as arrogant as the vampire Kain, though 
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Thank you! I like the elves of Middle-Earth's first age, they were power-thirsty, merciless warriors, it was so fitting Kain to be drawn as their king
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I just realized that this isn't Kain, though you had me tricked for a second. This Gil-Galad looks badass, but he still reminds me of Kain.
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Love it! I've always loved Gil Galad. I hate see Elrond instead of the "real king" in the movie. Thanks
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Too bad Gil-Galad had only a second's role in the extended movie, and was completely cut out from the theatrical version.
I like Elrond, but he's hell far from the powerful high-elves of the First Age. He was the lord of Rivendell, but wasn't the king of the elves.
And I'm glad you like the painting
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You're welcome
Did you see the concepts about Gil Galad on the movie's artbook? They are amazing
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Yes, I have the books with the concept art and design, and used Gil Galad's action figure for armour reference. I like his armour and the decorations on it, his shield was awesome too
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This work is fantastic!
Kain looks so majestic standing like that, and with the volcano as a background. The title fits him best, he really is the king and leader of all.
I loved it from the first time I saw it, but I couldn't add it to faves(pc problems). And now when I saw it again, I just had to do what I couldn't do a long time ago.
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Thank you!
He has such an attractive and elegant appearance in BO2 that he could be mistaken for an elf, and this crossover-project was a good opportunity to dress him up into the elf king armour. It fits his character, and his role as a leader too
And it was fun to paint him with black hair too.
I'm glad you like it!
(Stupid old pc-s are always making troubles 
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Welcome!
Yes he does, he truly is very attractive, but something always bothered me about him- in the game his lines are too sharp, and are more like angles, than a vampire's face.
Your Kain is the best version. 
Yes, elven armour really suits him, but he looks good wearing..everything.
Ofcourse I like it!!! 
You should concider having an art gallery, so more ppl can see your works, as they are truely amazing!
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I love him the most in BO2 (I like his character and nature in the SR-games, but not his appearance. He was quite distorted in Defiance, had too wide shoulders, too big chest while his waist was too short. And his face should be better too)
Agrees, his white-skinned version is the best, I love his athletic body,his face and his elegance...somehow he reminds me of the big wild cats. Even his moves like long jumps and bare-hand fights were cat-like too.
I love better his in-game version than the 3D cover pic (the opened and blody mouth didn't fits him, and too bad they rendered only this face to him, and used it on all pictures) even if his game character has less details, his face looks intelligent and that's what I want to give him with my pieces too.
I'm glad you noticed he has emotions
I'm quite afraid of showing my stuff in real-life galleries, but if I could make an own website, I'd surely have one
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Yes, his apperience in BO is the best. Something about his shoulders has always bothered me, now I see it wasn't only with me. 
It's true, his jumps and fighting skills remind of a cat, because of their elegance and nimbleness. But his face reminds me more of a husky, especially his light blue eyes.
I hate his 3D cover pic. 
Yes, I did
I'm glad to hear!
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Somehow his whole anatomy was distorted in his green version. His short and too thick waist was bothering too, and his muscles looked odd as if they were on the wrong place.
I like he had blue eyes in BO2...and loved their red light when he was angry.
That cover pic sucks, and the blood on his mouth rather looked like plastic. I think they rendered him with wide opened bloody mouth only for effect, but it was just stupid, and didn't fit his character (and I agree about his eyebrows. They were hell odd. And they were too low, nearly covered his eyes. No matter how hardly he frowns, he can't raise his eyebrows that down)
Too bad there's no way to rotate the camera around him in the game, but at least we can see the rest of his face when he's watching something. I like his intelligent look.
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I liked the game's design better than in BO2, but they really ruined Kain's apperience. I think his head was a bit too big for his body, and it's true that his shoulders were to wide too.
I also loved his blue eyes, and I think he would look good too, if they had a silver reflection.
I also loved how they glowed in the end anter he kiked the Sarafan Lord's ass.
Yes,the cover pic sucks, and the blood really looked strange-like jelly. He really makes that expression, whyle sucking blood- but it looks different and better in the game.
Haha, when I read "...nearly covered his eyes.."I imagined him having hairs in his eyelids too.
He really looks intelligent.Like he can read through ppl's thaugts. 
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Agrees, the environment and buildings in Defiance looked better than BO2 (but it was playing in the city, and the deserted canyons) the architecture and decoration of the ancients and Vorry's mansion was hell beautiful, and I found the snowy Nosgoth so chilling too
But for movements and gameplay, BO2 was better: I liked how Kain can pick up different weapons, and fought in a different way with each of them (bare-handed fight is awesome too) As for Defiance, the fighting was a bit stupid as there's no blocking option, all you have to do is to press the same buttons (It's quite hard to get the characters to perform any movement combinations, and I found fighting in the air useless)
Hehhe Kain's appearance sucks too (in SR, his skin looked like rotting) and his body structure makes him look similar to an Uruk-hai orc, and his anatomy was distorted with that oversized upper body, no waist, and too long legs. His face was bizarre too with those horns or whats, and the too low hairline, plus that ugly skin. I loved him much better too with white skin, and he looked more powerful than his green version when he was dressed into that spiked armour, and had a calm face expression, but his glowing eyes said it's wiser to be out of his way
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Oh yes, the snowy Nosgoth was very beautiful and realistic. I like the snowy city in Max Payne better taugh- but the game is newer, so it doesn't count.
I liked the moves in Defiance, but the game was hell fast, and I wasn't aible to see all his moves good.
Oh, how I loved the different weapons, and ways to kill victims in mist. ^^ I especially loved the way he chops off ppl's heads with the baseball bat thing.
He looks exactly like a green lizard, or a spiked snake. 
Yes, his glowing eyes were the cherry on the ice cream.
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WHOUAAAH ! I looove it! The armour is great and you did an excellent job with the colouring!!!
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Brilliant work! This is what I love to see from you. Don't you feel more proud when you make something fantastic like this? Anyway I'll shut up from now on and stop being a pain in the ass. I just hope you read my note.
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I'm glad you like it!
I understand what you're pointing at, but I feel pride for different reasons about my works. It's much better feeling to make a painting coz there's much work in it than the linearts, or if I can express with my pics what I want to mean with them, so all of them contains a different challenge to me. (Except my few comic-style drawings. They didn't required any effort or skills).
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I thought that would probably be your answer, but I still wanted to say how much I liked these. Well at the end of the day I suppose art is all about drawing what you, the artist, like the best and that's what counts.
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at first I thought and since when vampire kain has black hair? P XD XD good job!
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He had black hair only when he was a human. But it was a fun to make some changes on him to see if ppl can notice him this way. (the elf-king was black haired, so I gave Kain a drastic hair-dyeing
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yea I know that he had black hair that's why I mentioned vampired Kain not just kain
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hey I thought it was one of your naked Kain fan arts again ;-P
very nice pic, it somehow makes me think of Turel instead (despide bearing Kain's symbol). Maybe it's because of the armor, it reminds me of human Turel's mural in SR2.
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