Marya Filatova, known online as RittareArt and formerly Filat, is a Russian artist specializing in art of J.R.R. Tolkien's mythology, mainly through watercolor.
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Since 2006, she has produced numerous illustrations of First Age individuals (predominantly Elves), forest scenes, and maidens of Middle-earth on the art community DeviantArt. Her galleries have over 170,000 pageviews.
Filatova is the administrator of the DeviantArt group TheLotRClub, which has 6,000 members and was founded in 2007.
She resides in Novosibirsk, Russia.