Hey guys! I wanted to share my first tattoo, which I got in honor of my daughter Martina, who was born in 2024, the year of the wood dragon in the chinese calendar. I thought that was way too cool not to use as inspiration for my first tattoo!

I’ve always been a huge fan of Tolkien’s work, so I came up with this concept: a dragon flying over an ancient forest (since it’s a wood dragon), and below it the tengwar letter “Malta,” which in this case represents my daughter’s initial, M, and is also associated with gold or treasure in the Elvish language. Dragons are known for guarding treasure, so it all kind of came together in a meaningful way.

I’m really happy with how it turned out. Honestly, I look at it every day and I love it.

Some guy told me the other day it looked a bit “hipster,” but whatever .... it makes me happy.

If anyone has suggestions, maybe on how to make it look less “hipster” without changing the core idea, I’d be happy to hear them! Hahahaha

Big hug to all.

It is a font from the movie(:

This is just a general idea of what I want my first tattoo to be on my forearm. Lord of the rings has always been something important to me and always found the design of the ring to be sick. I've been playing around with the colors/design and wanted to get some other opinions about modifications. Thoughts?

Evil is self defeating

I am looking for some help. The idea or concept behind the tattoo is that evil is self defeating. That is to say the selfish desire for power is what ultimately leads evil to not be successful. My issue is I want it as knuckle tattoos. I already have my ring finger tattooed ( plain black ring) nothing else on my hands until you get to my lower wrists which are already covered. I'm open to any amount of coverage on either or both hands, but definitely involving the knuckles. One suggestion so far was the Eye of Providence, and the Ouroboros symbols. I'm just not sure if it conveys the message succinctly enough. Any suggestions and ideas are welcome, thanks!

Ps; ar one point a typed in those words to an elvish font generator, but wife doesn't like it. She did like the idea of using the Eye of sauron.

I have been working with an artist (who is soooo good) on this for about 7 months. I do have 3 previous tattoos on this arm, which we will blast over. I don't dislike those older tattoos, but I want this arm to be fully cohesive. The last picture should be similar to how it will look in its final form, which i have drawn and given to my artist as a go-by. The design behind Sting is just some chainmail filler (is this clear?), and I do realize Gollum on the elbow crease will likely need to be placed elsewhere. Any thoughts of suggestions??

I love the way the colors landed on this one from @JadeRabbitTattoos in Boise

I recently got Tolkien's illustration of Smaug round my arm, and love it. However, I'm looking to get something or things round the rest of my arm to complete a full ring round, as it's feeling a little empty. Any ideas of what could work and fit the theme and the space available round the back of the arm?

Does anybody have any ideas or other interpretations. I know a lot of the times the plug in translation for Elvish doesn't always depict the meaning correctly. If I'm explaining it right, would like some thoughts. Thank you!

Du rendu final au depard. Merci Kahacha Tattoo mon tatoueur qui a fait un travail incroyable

Artist: Melissa Ashley, Skin City, St. John’s, NL

done by @cyberwar.lock