Elijah Wood As Frodo Baggins And Sean Astin As Samwise Gamgee THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF

Smaug <3

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.

i drew these two lil guys (originally trailing behind gandalf from a few posts down) and thought that they would be cute as a sticker (that i'll probably never actually make) anyways Aragorn sewed the hobbit's names onto their clothing which they thought was cute but really it's cause Legolas and Gimli couldn't remember which was which and kept on making up increasingly terrible nicknames.

legolas: hey champ merry: i'm sorry???

Pauline Baynes illustrations for THE HOBBIT, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL, and BILBO’S LAST SONG.

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.

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

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)

Balin & Dwalin + Costume Design

Thorin’s costume

Actor: Richard Armitage

Designer: Ann Maskrey and Bob Buck

Made By: 3 foot 7 Costume Dept.

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Post 12/21 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.