I’ve Reprinted This Smaug Risograph A Few Times Now And I’m Really Digging The HOT Fluorescent Orange

Eowyn (Miranda Otto) Green Gown.. The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2002).. Costume by Ngila Dickson & Richard Taylor.

Tom Bombadil and lovely Goldberry, about to have a little dance! I love their long, flowing hair but alas, I am not the best at drawing flowy hair.

from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design

Hobbits

unmentioned credits: MS - Matt Smith, Prop Designer BB - Bob Buck, Additional Costume Designer

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It’s going to take me a while to get through Thorin and Company’s pages, so in the meantime I figured I’d put up the hobbits

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

sam, reading bilbo’s book: “well now, i’m sure he had a very nice voice, but that’s hardly a reason to go on an adventure with someone you just met”

sam: turns page to an illustration of thorin, with his dark hair and blue eyes

sam: “understandable, good for you mister bilbo”

Tauriel’s costume

Actor: Evangeline Lilly

Designer: Lesley Burkes-Harding

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 13/21 from the Costume Trail in Wellington. Message me if you’d like higher resolution photos or other detail shots of her costume clasps and the like.

More costumes from the Hobbit here.

I think Sam and Frodo should have kissed

@tolkienweek day 2 ~ favourite location

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)

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.