Chaos & Curiosity

Yes! I really apreciated how they ended the hobbit movies  ( ◑ ‿ ◑ )

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

Dori: Rude.

Bofur: Fair.

Thorin: Not again.

Dwarves group hug attack!

“Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away ere break of day

“This thing ceased being cute when you turned 40, stop it!”

One day I’ll actually draw Nori’s hair fully down, but in the meantime I shall offer you this!

And I love both of them and would love it if they both met and thought the other version was a complete moron.

#theyre both idiots and i love them#both thorins fighting over bilbo fic when??#fic when??#when?????

When indeed? Please: it'd be so funny!

Book Thorin going on long speeches and poetical phrases complimenting Bilbo; while Film Thorin broods and stares angrily at the charade

Film Thorin who's like showering Bilbo in gifts and presents and does stuff for him he thinks Bilbo'd like; meanwhile Book Thorin is like “I wish I'd thought of that... hang on mithril. Top that you brooding bastard."

And because I am a language nerd:

Film Thorin would talk as he does in the films, obviously.

Kept having this idea that Bilbo took Thorin’s travel cloak with him back to the Shire and he sleeps with it to help him grieve.

Sometimes Nori might disappear for days, weeks, and even months. Ori hated that because all he wanted to do was spend time with his brothers. ———- Went a little crazy here and what is background :B. 

This is actually a prologue to a longer story I’m working on.