I am completely building one bracer before I make any pieces for the other side, just in case I discover some major flaw in my design or process along the way. So this is where that first one stands after this weekend. I was hoping to get into the leather work by now, but I didn't quite make it.

Anyone else on here doing Fantasy Hike? I'd like to walk more than I do, so what better way to do that than to walk to Mordor?

As Randall says, "Movies about walking!"

So let's walk.

Some more Hill Tribesmen painted up.

"Something festers in the heart of Middle-Earth. Something that you have failed to see. But the Great Eye has seen it. Even now he presses his advantage. His attack will come soon. You're all going to die. But you know this don't you, Gandalf?"

Shot using real figures, lighting, miniatures & cotton wool for sky

"some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works"

JRR Tolkien in the forward to #LordOfTheRings LOL

Two years ago today, we would've been getting married if not for the fact that my bestie (who isn't on Fedi so will avoid the ping of shame) had already booked opera tickets for that date.

We had to move our plans to the following Saturday instead, and April Fool's is a cool wedding anniversary I guess but Gondorian New Year would've been cooler.

Anyway, Happy New Year, #LordOfTheRings nerds

Today, March 25, the One Ring is destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom.

"The fourteenth of the New Year," said Gandalf; "or if you like, the eighth day of April in the Shire-reckoning. But in Gondor the New Year will always now begin upon the twenty-fifth of March when Sauron fell"

#MartinFreeman #Bilbo #Watson #Actor #Acting #Movies #TheHobbit #Hobbit #LordOfTheRings #TheLordOfTheRings #LotR #Sherlock.

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Le huitième numéro vient de paraître, avec pour thème "Autour du Seigneur des Anneaux", et un programme plus qu'alléchant !

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Hi Tiny Pocket Pals, after a few years break, im once again walking with friends all night to raise money for cancer research as part of the Cancer Council Relay for Life. We like to theme our team and this year is Lord of the Rings with our team name 'For Frodo'. Previous years have been - 'Magic: The Staggering', 'Just Keep Stepping' (Disney) and 'Run, Rincewind, Run' (Discworld)

If you are able to donate, please head to my donation page. https://www.relayforlife.org.au/s/45765/63944
#RelayForLife #CancerResearch #LordOfTheRings

Sometimes you just have to put the silly mini combo together for a laugh.

#LordOfTheRings
#Sauron
#WizardOfOz
#Toto
#miniatures

Wise words from Éowyn in The Return of the King. She may as well be talking about Ukraine and Putin rather than Gondor and the Dark Lord.

" 'It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two, Master Warden,' answered Éowyn. 'And those who have not swords can still die upon them. Would you have the folk of Gondor gather you herbs only, when the Dark Lord gathers armies?' "

"In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all."

All shot using real lighting, figures and miniature sets.

A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comics

“Can you guess if the word is an antidepressants drug or a Tolkien character?” (A couple of them are gimmes, but some are genuinely tough!)

Working out which Houses correspond to which planets in the Locked Tomb series.

Visual references that absolutely helped me track the action while reading the first two books: Necromancers and cavaliers from Gideon the Ninth, and a whole massive character-design lineup from Harrow the Ninth.

2020 interview with Tamsyn Muir: “I know lots of people don’t wish for their work to be used by fanfiction writers. I think that should be respected. I mean, I think their reasons are wrongheaded and that they totally misunderstand what is going on, but the fanfiction community is generally generous with people who say they don’t want stuff written about their property. I hope my fandom is writing long serious epics, and writing parody pieces that make me look stupid, and weird porn, and ships I never saw coming.”

Long list of punny restaurant names, suggested by one of the writers for The Good Place.

“this video game i’ve been playing since i was a kid called Wizard101 updated and added a new world where the villain essentially pretends to be Khonshu, and they added a character called Loon Knight.”

Somebody wrote to Dear Prudence, confessing to (in short) sending anon hate to the antis who attacked them for writing darkfic. Prudie’s perfectly on-point response boils down to “you have to stop bullying these people, instead you should channel your spite into writing more darkfic.”

“Through the use of comic book conventions, readers are guided through the decipherment of logographic writing from Central Mexico and, in the process, are shown how colonization has limited our contemporary understanding of ancient Indigenous people.”

“I’ve wanted to try my had at drawing [Wally Wood’s 22 panels that always work] all myself over the years, and decided to finally give it a crack with a twist: could I also tell a STORY using those exact panel layouts?”

“But why is the DeviantART stamp? Who was the originator of the DeviantART stamp, how did they become so popular? This question was posed on a forum I frequent, and I was unable to find any existing write-ups, so I sought to answer it myself.”

I guess I'll need to start a GoFundMe again. (although, from its size, it looks like I'll only need to sell one kidney, not both this time)


#Lego #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien #LOTR