r/lotrtattoos

Hey everyone, how’s it going?

I wanted to ask for some advice about my tattoo. It’s my first one, and I got it in honor of my daughter, who was born in 2024 (Year of the Wood Dragon. How cool is that?). That’s why I chose a design with a forest and a dragon. I really loved the concept at the time, and honestly, I still do.

But recently, a friend told me it looks kind of… “hipster.” I didn’t know much about tattoos when I got it, but now that I look at it again, I kind of see what he means. It feels like something that was trendy in the early 2010s.

Anyway, I have a touch-up session this monday, and I’d like to take advantage of it to improve the design a bit. I’m thinking of asking the artist to help me make it look less “hipster” and more organic or natural.

Do you have any suggestions on how I could achieve that? Maybe stylistic changes, additions, or ways to rework what’s already there?

Thanks in advance!

It is a font from the movie(:

I am looking for feedback on this line work I had done. Overall, I'm happy with it so far, going back for shading and fixing a wonky line eventually, but looking for any other feedback ? Narsil ended up chunky after scaling up the hilt to the size I wanted, it didn't quite fit.

I could always get the shards covered over when I do stage two if the consensus is it looks weird, the plan is to have the mountains around the middle lower, balrog and towers to left, gandalf and doors of durin to the right

(Apoligies for the apelike back pic 😆)