Treebeard And The Hobbits

Elf Soldier 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 8/21 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 Lieutenant costume.

More costumes from the Hobbit here.

13 Days for 13 Dwarves: Ori (Day 9).

(He looks nice with his hair long).

“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

attercop! attercop!

Bombur’s costume

Actor: Stephen Hunter

Designer: Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 4/21 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.

Radagast’s costume

Actor: Sylvester McCoy

Designer: Ann Maskrey

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 10/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. Unfortunately this costume was behind some truly grotty glass so I had to fiddle with these photos a lot in order to pick up any detail. I tried, o lord how I tried. 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)

"Away eastward the sun was rising red out of the mists that lay thick around the world. Touches with gold and red the autumn trees seemed to be sailing rootless in a shadowy sea."

The Fellowship of the Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien

Oh, Sam…