Behind The Hobbit:

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.

some Sméagol sketches! they're from while he's still in his cave but after BAGGINSS stole his PRECIOUS!!

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien

“At the end of the second week in September a cart came in through Bywater from the direction of Brandywine Bridge in broad daylight. An old man was driving it all alone. He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat.”

What if I was going on a midlife crisis journey with you and we both couldn’t sleep so I forced you to stargaze with me and bond with me. And we were both boys

I already loved Gollum as is (and frankly, he's right, Bilbo absolutely cheated), but ever since I found out he's a Cain character, I feel like I have no choice but to absolutely root for him. I loved the story of Cain and Abel ever since I was a child. This is so up my alley

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)

attercop! attercop!

slender as the willow-wand, clearer than clear water

small mucha study with goldberry