What Goldberry And Tom Bombadil Are To Me LMAO

Bofur’s costume

Actor: James Nesbitt

Designer: Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 3/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. Message me if you’d like higher resolution photos or other detail shots.

More costumes from the Hobbit here.

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Some unexpected heroes

ON THIS DAY

April 28th - Bilbo, Gandalf and the Dwarves leave Bag End

'Very puffed he was, when he got to Bywater just on the stroke of eleven, and found he had come without a pocket-handkerchief!'

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Younger Nori, Dori and Ori (perhaps Nori wasn’t so different from Kili once, haha…)

Aannnd baby Kili and Fili because I saw some other really cute drawings of them as children. I… I kinda went nuts… D;

Extra drawing: Young Bofur and Bombur…

The Hobbit Cosplay/Art References

Dear Fellow Cosplayers of the Tolkien persuasion,

Wellington is currently doing this “Costume Trail” thing which is fantastic. What they’ve done is taken the costumes of the main characters from The Hobbit movies and placed them around Wellington, NZ, for people to look at. There’s usually one at each location but some places like The Roxy and Embassy theatre have three.

So, naturally, I am doing the thing but I’m also doing it with a fairly powerful camera to take hi-res photos of the costumes as references. What I am going to do once I’ve got good photos of all of them: upload the pictures to tumblr, one character costume per post. I’ll upload the ones I’ve seen already but I won’t get photos of all of them until probably Christmas or Boxing Day.

One minor thing to be noted: The costumes are housed in cases with super reflective glass which gives the photographer in me nightmares. I do my best taking the photos [including making my mother hold up table cloths to block the light, lunatics that we are] and with photoshop but alas, I can only do so much. Detail shots are fine because I can easily block the glare but full body shots are dicey.

Characters being displayed:

Thorin

Bilbo

Oin

Gloin

Bifur

Bombur

Bofur

Fili Part 1 & Part 2

Kili

Dwalin

Balin

Nori

Dori

Ori

Gandalf

Legolas

Tauriel

Radagast

Elf Lieutenant

Elf Soldier

Bard

So if anyone would like detail photographs to help build their Hobbit cosplays, watch this space. You can message me for extra photos if needed.

I’ve reprinted this Smaug risograph a few times now and I’m really digging the HOT fluorescent orange on brown paper in this batch 🤌 These have been restocked and are up in my shop!

Finished The Fellowship of the Ring yesterday! I'm so proud of myself. I haven't read seriously in a long time, only a random book here and there. And look at me now, already finished with The Hobbit and Fellowship! I'm doing really good, and on my way to finish finally reading this classic.

Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)