Let the Havens Burn

Maedhros son of Fëanor arriving at the Havens of Sirion, inspired by "The Silmarillion" 2008/2010
|| Animated illustration 2023: a foreshadowing: Maedhros and Fëanor, son and father portraits morphing with Maedhros in flames. Fëanor in the Age of Stars and Maedhros in the I Age of Sun (2010). Both portraits are steps of the same image, inspired by the way Ayami Kojima paints bright eyes and delicate faces full of light, even when surrounded by darkness and nightmares. The main scene in flames takes place much later in time, towards the end of the I Age of Sun:

"Now when first the tidings came to Maedhros that Elwing yet lived, and dwelt in possession of the Silmaril by the mouths of Sirion, he repenting of the deeds in Doriath withheld his hand. But in time the knowledge of their oath unfulfilled returned to torment him and his brothers, (...) they sent messages to the Havens of friendship and yet of stern demand. Then Elwing and the people of Sirion would not yield the jewel (...) And so there came to pass the last and cruellest of the slayings of Elf by Elf; and that was the third of the great wrongs achieved by the accursed oath."

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, Chapter 24: "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"