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Many moons ago, I did an image called 'defender of the forest' about a tiny character's adventures in the forest. I'd always wanted to do another image based on tiny people in a full-sized world. Finally, I got around to it :)
This is my 3rd entry to the CCCXII - Category: Small Misc
And this is also my first entry to the actual challenge in the Guilds of Historica
The Elves are visting the High King of the Drow in his throne room, to find a solution for their endless hatred.
Tolkien created a-make-believe world and the film produces found a location and built a set that made it all so believable.
The inscription reads:
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them”
Route 54, Snæfellsnes, Iceland.
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This picture was taken in a park near Queenstown with the Remarkables range of mountains as a backdrop. The point of view is where Peter Jackson shot the scene of the people of Edoras fleeing to Helm's deep in the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. The line of extras moved from behind the lake and along the path beside where LC is sitting, towards the camera.
It took me about an hour to get this shot as the band of cloud was covering the whole of the Remarkables range. There was no view behind the lake at all. LC was patient enough to wait around with me for the clouds to clear enough to get this shot. A little write-up of this shot can be found here.
One of the most breath taking sights on New Zealand's south island is the amazing view over Lake Matheson near Fox Glacier. It was a view I had longed to see since touching down in the country and it certainly didn't disappoint. This image was taken on a calm winter morning as the clouds began to clear and the enormity of snow peaked, Mount Tasman appeared in front of me. The mountain was reflected perfectly in the crystal clear lake as if it had an identical twin hiding beneath it's surface. It was like something out of an epic fantasy and is still one of the best views I have ever seen.
As always thanks for your comments and Faves.
Image is SOOC with the exception of watermark and crop.
A Collaborative effort of photography by Nathan Williams (Realms)
and Sabrina Simón (Brina Bat)
Strobist Info: Backlit using Lumedyne 200w single head fired using Firefly 2 slave, side lit using Sunpack strobe fired using Firefly 2 slave, ambient light from above as well as effects light from embers.
Middle Earth group info: Mines of Moria
Shot Location: Stephens Gap
I don't know about you, but I tend to associate New Zealand a little too much with Lord of the Rings, which is unfair, since it has so much more to it than just being a filming location! Not that this prevents me from trying to find all the filming locations anyway, but I'm just saying. In this case, however, I wasn't the one doing the associating - years before New Zealand became Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-earth, someone else explored the caves and rivers of the Oparara Basin in remote Kahurangi National Park and thought it matched their vision of Middle-earth, too.
So in this area you not only have the stunning Moria Gate Arch (pictured here - a difficult spot to photograph, even with a wide-angle lens, long shutter speeds, multiple exposures, and multiple frames), but also dark-red Narya Creek, and the Mirror Tarn (which I didn't have time to see).
Getting there is only a short hike, but the real challenge is first getting to Karamea over some winding West Coast mountain roads, and then northeast over many kilometers of narrow bumpy gravel road to get to the trailhead. But it's worth it, even if it were named something besides Moria Gate.
A magically land to behold with the sights & smells of life itself blowing across this landscape. To slip off your shoes and walk upon it's many green trails.
Along hwy 40 East of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
“Even the smallest light may guide us through the deepest shadows — for hope, like magic, dwells in humble places.”
Here are the black captains from the videogame "Middle-Earth:Shadow of Mordor".
From left to right: the Hammer, the Black Hand and the Tower
Please comment of you favourite; )
“Sam rushed back to the bank. Frodo was in the water, close to the edge … Merry was trapped: another crack had closed about his waist …”
I’m pretty sure it’s more than 10 years ago that I planned to build a pollard willow one day. Their trunks are pretty short, straight and boring, but their “heads” are a challenge. Initially I wanted to use flexible hoses, but I became more of a purist over the years (you need to cut the hoses and probably add some wire to keep them from hanging down and both is not purist). I’m more than happy with this result.
And again, I have to give credit to Jonas for the idea to use some new Harry Potter wands as twig tips (you might see a pattern here by now).
A similar scene appears in the extended version of the second movie, but in the books Old Man Willow makes his appearance now, where all four Hobbits are still together and in the Old Forest near Buckland.
This was built for the Middleearth Contest at Eurobricks
Category B was to show a scene after the LotR movies, when Sauron is finally defeated and everything is peaceful.
Aragorn has planted a sapling after the war and some years after that, when his kids were already born, the tree was in full blossom again.
Sound of Raasay, Skye Island, Scotland.
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Amacci Shoes - Samara
Adoness: Maitreya Nails: Basics : Red to Orange
Meva Sally Bento Ring Gold left Forefinger
Serendipity Poses
My Entry to the Eurobricks Middleearth Contest catgory A "Build a Lego Set".
Big thanks to Legopard for lending me Radaghast :)
See more pictures on Eurobricks: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101995
The Storr, Isle of Skye (Scotland).
The area in front of the cliffs of The Storr, a rocky hill on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides (Scotland), is known as The Sanctuary. This has a number of weirdly shaped rock pinnacles, the remains of ancient volcanic plugs. The most famous and impressive of these is known as The Old Man of Storr.
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Just a quick reminder that I and the LotR project still exist and that I haven’t turned into stone. Due to my “complicated” situation, I’m not able to work as fast on the new vignette series as I’d like to, but I can assure you that I’m doing my best.
I’m also still working on the instructions for most of the Hobbit vignettes and thought it might be nice to see the three trolls together on a larger vignette and how they may look like when Frodo and the others find them.
This is just a digital version, a by-product, if you like. I took the liberties to use some parts in wrong colours, for example the hot dog bun ears in light bluish grey.
Anyway, I better go back to my LEGO cave now. Thank you for being patient.
“On the far stage, under the distant lamps, they could just make out a figure: it looked like a dark black bundle left behind. But as they looked it seemed to move.”
Enter: Merry Brandybuck. The dark tan I used to build the ferry is an acceptable substitute for brown, though I realised once again that I’d prefer to have a wider variety of brown colours, apart from ‘old brown’, ‘reddish brown’ and ‘dark brown’. ‘dark orange’ and ‘medium nougat’ are also fine.
Trust me, when you build so many medieval or fantasy themed MOCs, there can’t be enough brown and green shades.
inspired by the book
author: john r. r. tolkien
title: the lord of the rings - the fellowship of the ring
"...and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey. So still our songs in Mirkwood say. My heart would be glad if I were beneath the eaves of that wood, and it were springtime!"
J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Fellowship of the Ring" Book Two, Chapter VI: Lothlorien
"...und der Boden des Waldes ist golden, und golden ist das Dach, und seine Säulen sind aus Silber, denn die Rinder der Bäume ist glatt und grau. So heißt es in unseren Liedern in Düsterwald. Ich wäre von Herzen froh, wenn ich am Saum jenes Waldes wäre, und es wäre Frühling!"
J.R.R. Tolkien: "Die Gefährten" Zweites Buch, Sechstes Kapitel: Lothlórien
Amazing light on the Isle of Skye....or possibly Middle Earth.
The day started as gray overcast, with 40 mph winds and the rain coming in sideways. There was no sign of dawn or a sunrise. I started on this hike. Suddenly the rain lifted, the clouds parted and for 5 minutes this amazing light filled the land. Had I seen Gandalf or Bilbo, I would not have been surprised. Truly Middle Earth, Beleriand, perhaps.
Then as suddenly as it appeared, the clouds shut and the rain returned and it would pour for the next half day.
Weather and scenery like this are what I love about Scotland! an adventure to make Tolkien proud.
Sony A7R with Zeiss Loxia 21mm lens on a Gitzo tripod.
And of course full rain gear, which in Scotland might be the most important equipment of all so you can stay out in the pouring wind driven rain to experience this kind of fleeting light.