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Zweimast-Gaffelschoner
Nation : Niederlande
Heimathafen: Amsterdam
Länge: 42,00 Meter,
Breite: 7,80 Meter,
Tiefgang: 3,20 Meter,
Segelfläche: 828 m²
Besatzung: 10 Personen
I was looking at old copies of Lord of the Rings this weekend and I decided to make my own cover with my initials JSB.
A combo of shots from childhood in Ohio provide the source.
There was a merry passenger,
a messenger, a mariner:
he built a gilded gondola
to wander in, and had in her
a load of yellow oranges
and porridge for his provender;
he perfumed her with marjoram
and cardamom and lavender.
This build, over 2 years in the works, is inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien’s poem “Errantry.” I began work on it for an entry to MELO 2017 and, quite obviously, did not complete it in time. The design included rare or unusual part/color combinations which I did not have many of. Between several bricklink orders, highschool graduation, starting college, more bricklink orders, some redesigning, and some more bricklink orders, it is finally complete. I would like to thank two builders for inspiration. I originally was using a design by Iain Heath for the head, but that did not work, so I borrowed a design by Eero Okkenen. I also modified a design of a helmet by Eero, but that got scraped when I changed the size of the head. I would also like to give credit to Alan Lee, whose drawings I took inspiration from as well.
What is it about? The long and short of Tolkien’s poem is that there was a fairy mariner who sailed around on all kinds of adventures. He falls in love with a butterfly, but she won’t marry him, so he studies all kinds of arts in order to capture her, but she escapes. Sad, he continues on his adventures, battling all kinds of strange foes while bearing weapons made of the most amazing materials – a sword of emerald, a shield and helmet both of coral and ivory, chainmail of crystal, a spear made of ebony, javelins of malachite and stalactite. He conquered victorious and sailed home eventually, a wanderer, an adventurer. The full poem is below, and I would highly encourage you to read it.
He called the winds of Argosies,
with cargoes in to carry him,
across the rivers seventeen,
that lay between to tarry him.
He landed all in loneliness,
where stonily the pebbles on
the running river Derrilyn,
goes merrily for ever on.
He journeyed then through meadow-lands,
to shadow-land that dreary lay,
and under hill and over hill,
went roving still a weary way.
He sat and sang a melody,
his errantry a tarrying,
he begged a pretty butterfly,
that fluttered by to marry him.
She scorned him and she scoffed at him,
she laughed at him unpitying,
so long he studied wizardry,
and sigaldry and smithying.
He wove a tissue airy thin,
to snare her in; to follow her,
he made him beetle-leatherwing,
and feather wing of swallow hair.
He caught her in bewilderment,
with filament of spider-thread.
He made her soft pavilions,
of lilies and a bridal bed,
of flowers and of thistle-down,
to nestle down and rest her in,
and silken webs of filmy white,
and silver light he dressed her in.
He threaded gems and necklaces,
but recklessly she squandered them,
and fell to bitter quarrelling,
then sorrowing he wandered on,
and there he left her withering
as shivering he fled away;
with windy weather following,
on swallow-wing he sped away.
He passed the achipelagoes,
where yellow grows the marigold,
with countless silver fountains are,
and mountains are of fairy-gold.
He took to war and foraying,
a-harrying beyond the sea,
and roaming over Belmary,
and Thellamie and Fantasie.
He made a shield and morion,
of coral and of ivory.
A sword he made of emerald,
and terrible his rivalry,
with elven knights of Aerie
and Faerie, with paladins
that golden-haired, and shining-eyed
came riding by, and challenged him.
Of crystal was his habergeon,
his scabbard of chalcedony,
with silver tipped and plenilune,
his spear was hewn of ebony.
His javelins were of malachite
and stalactite - he brandished them,
and went and fought the dragon flies,
of Paradise, and vanquished them.
He battled with the Dumbledors,
the Hummerhorns, and Honeybees,
and won the Golden Honeycomb,
and running home on sunny seas,
in ship of leaves and gossamer,
with blossom for a canopy,
he sat and sang, and furbished up,
and burnished up his panoply.
He tarried for a little while,
in little isles that lonely lay,
and found their naught but blowing grass.
And so at last, the only way he took, and turned,
and coming home with honeycomb,
to memory his message came,
and errand too!
In derring-do and glamoury,
he had forgot them,
journeying and tourneying, a wanderer.
So now he must depart again,
and start again bis gondola,
for ever still a messenger a passenger, a tarrier,
a roving as a feather does,
a weather-driven mariner.
It takes a while to dig a big enough hot spring for 3 people. But its totally worth It! The water is very hot so you need to have a cool water source as well. The color is not off in this photo, my foot is red from extreme sunburn :[
So, day thirteen. Not so unlucky as I thought. The photo was taken quite early, as a matter of fact. I had a completly different idea in mind, but I turned out going for this one for some reason. Be that as it may, I liked the end result, even after taking a few other different compositions. Quite frankly, I think this one is the best one yet.
Lighting Info:
For the lighting, I used a TT-660 inside a 60x60 cm Softbox directly to the right. Thecnically, it is at 90º and slightly above. but as Danbo is so little compared to it and has no nose, you can quite see how the light is evenly spread. and produces little shadow. This is true even though the Softbox was not more than 40cm away from the subject (quite close, IMHO). So, that's it for the Lighting Info
J. R. R. Tolkien was renowned for his love of nature and wooded landscapes so no wonder that a number of names which occur in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ are similar to those found locally because the countryside around Stonyhurst is so richly beautiful. This walk takes in views along the River Hodder, around the village of Hurst Green and of course there is always a view of Pendle Hill in the distance, it doesn't surprise me that he was inspired to use them in his book because around every corner is another gem of a view in this area of stunning beauty.
Walking in the footsteps of author J.R.R. Tolkien who regularly stayed at Stonyhurst College in the Ribble Valley and following this walk explores the richly beautiful surrounding that inspired him and a number of names occur in 'The Lord of the Rings' ........ it's so nice to experience this area and to imagine how middle earth and the hobbits fit into his fantasy epic :) :)
Seen here in Hamburg, the J.R. Tolkien is a Dutch registered gaff-topsail schooner used for passenger cruises on the Baltic Sea and elsewhere in European.
Organized a photo shoot with my Tolkien group's cosplayers and my photo group Lomomanila. We used a bunch of toycameras in this shoot, but we took shots with digital cameras as well.
These are the first few shots, all from my digital camera.
Olorin, L'initiation de Gandalf
Chapitre 5 - l'Envoyé de Dol Guldur
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Modèle ( Olorin / Gandalf ) : David Le Pichon
Photographie & Postproduction : Frédéric DUPONT (myself)
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit or There and Back Again
Unwin Paperbacks, n.d. ca. 1975
Cover Artist: J.R.R. Tolkien
From JRR Tolkien's, 'The Silmarillion', p.219, "For she fled in a madness of fear, swifter than a deer, and tore off all her clothing as she ran, until she was naked...": 'The Children of Hurin', p.213.
My entry for round 1 of the Middle Earth LEGO Olympics:
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet.
Barad-dur (the Eye of Sauron) and the tower of Orthanc (tower of Isengard). Made for my microscale map of Middle-Earth.