'Frodo! Mr. Frodo, My Dear!' Cried Sam, Tears Almost Blinding Him. 'It's Sam, I've Come!'

"I'm glad to be with you Samwise Gamgee."

slender as the willow-wand, clearer than clear water

small mucha study with goldberry

The first page of The Hobbit in the style of a 16th century medieval illuminated manuscript.

This started as a comfort drawing while I rewatched all the Hobbit films and ended up being a full on artwork that took a long time...

something absolutely lovely about especially the first half of fellowship is that the hobbits keep meeting random kind helpful strangers - the elves, bombadil, butterbur, aragorn (also farmer maggot and his wife, though they're not strangers) - until the book solidifies in you the feeling that these are not really instances of random luck, but rather the inherent nature of the world. kind people are everywhere, and no matter where you are, there is surely someone closer than you think that would offer help if you needed it. it's such a beautiful theme across all of LOTR, and it's very sweet to me that it starts from the very beginning of the journey, on such a 'small' (comparatively), everyday scale

Gandalf’s costume

Actor: Ian McKellen

Designer: Ngila Dickson

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept., Sword by Weta Workshop

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Post 18/21 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.

Gandalf

Kili’s costume

Actor: Aidan Turner

Designer: Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 20/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. This one was, yet again, a very glarey case but look! The scale replica costume! Very cool how identical they both were in every detail.

Message me if you’d like higher resolution or more detail shots. Things not pictured in this photoset: his buttons and ties, vambraces, other perspectives of his boots, fur, edging detail on Kili’s coat, fixtures on his belts &c.

More costumes from the Hobbit here.

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

New url :) i like the simplicity of "merrydol" but I don't like how unrecognizable it is if you don't care about tom bombadill and his song (and even if you do i don't think you'd immediately think about it)

Dori being fussy during family photos