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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…
Elf Lieutenant costume
Actor: Various
Designer: Weta Workshop and Bob Buck
Made By: Armour and Weapons by Weta Workshop, Fabric Elements by 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.
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Post 9/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. Another very reflective display case. Message me if you’d like higher resolution photos or other detail shots because I got loads of this costume and the Elf Soldier costume.
More costumes from the Hobbit here.
Nori’s costume
Actor: Jed Brophy
Designer: Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck
Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.
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Post 7/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. Another very reflective display case. :/ Message me if you’d like higher resolution photos or other detail shots.
More costumes from the Hobbit here.
Dwalin’s Regal Armour by Edward Denton
“With the green theme in his armour Peter looked at Dwalin’s battle axe and suggested that we should give it blades that were made out of greenstone, or jade. In New Zealand it is called pounamu and it has cultural significance and value. The Maori people, native to New Zealand, carve it into jewellery and also make weapons out of it. It’s a beautiful stone, translucent and with flecks and veins of colour through it, so it made for a very eye-catching weapon. People from outside New Zealand probably wouldn’t catch the reference, and the films are fantasy after all, but for those of us who know what greenstone is and its specialness here it was cool to see Dwalin wielding an axe made of it.
A dagger for Dwalin came through as a fairly late request, but having just designed his greenstone axe it made sense to have it match“.
- Nick Keller, Weta Workshop Designer (The Battle of the Five Armies Chronicles: Art & Design)
“At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat.”
Tolkientober 2020: prompt "a head canon"
“Balin and Dwalin were written as Thorin’s closest confidantes, Balin as the Old Warrior advisor and father figure, Dwalin as an equal in all but name, his friend, his advisor, and his sparring partner. Thorin has a relationship with every one of his men, but thoese two and his sister’s sons, Fili and Kili, are particularly close.”
Richard Armitage
“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Grey Havens)