Welcome to the Week in Tolkien Cosplay! Each week, we’ll be picking a few of our favorite Tolkien-inspired costumes. If you’d like to be considered for an upcoming post, please send in your photo and the following information to cosplay@theonering.net
Name (can be a nickname if you’d rather not have your secret identity revealed)
Who you are cosplaying as
Photographers name (if known)
A short bio (such as: who made the costume, how long it took to make, and any other details about it you’d like to share
Characters: Kili, Bofur, Thorin, Fili, Bilbo Baggins, Legolas
Photographer: Shinigami Photography
Bio: This Family was brought together by a love of all things Tolkien. A lot of love and hard work went into all of these costumes (for Legolas, it was their first ever handmade costume, and the first big armour build for Thorin!), down to the contract that was hand-written by Kili, the incredible detailing on Bofur and Kili, and the incredible beard and wig work.
Name: Alex Oakenshield
Character: Thorin Oakenshield
Photographer: Antonio Casorio
Bio: I made the whole costume by myself, took me a few months and a lot of elbow juice. It’s made out of pvc and other thermoplastics, the picture was taken in August, It was unbearably hot that day under all those layers! I have made almost every single outfit that Thorin wears in The Hobbit trilogy but this one is absolutely my favorite. Being a greedy dwarf inside I guess I can’t resist the dragon sickness. Cheers from Italy!
Name: Kayoss Cosplay
Character: Eowyn
Photographer: Isotropic Photography
Bio: When I first read the Lord of the Rings in the late 90’s, I felt an instant connection to Eowyn and since then she’s been one of my all time favorite literary characters. So for my first ever cosplay I decided to make her Dernhelm battle armour from Return of the King. I made everything entirely by hand, including the sword and chainmaille, the latter of which I individually cut and sanded from 12 metres of PVC pipe. All up it took me 6-7 months to complete the costume. This photo was taken in Middlemarch, New Zealand near where the Rohan scenes were filmed. Unfortunately I couldn’t fit my helmet and shield in my bag to bring them to the shoot too, but nevertheless it was a priceless experience!
Glaurung the dragon, one of the chief weapons Morogth used to defeat the Eldar in Beleriand. Artwork: John Howe.
Welcome to our latest Library feature, in which Andrew B shares his theories about the “Were-worms” from The Hobbit. Personally I’d always envisaged them as lesser flightless dragons of the line of Glaurung and not the escapees from Arrakis that we saw in The Battle of the Five Armies, so I found Andrew’s ideas very interesting 🙂
If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you’d like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.net. One poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors.
Welcome to the Week in Tolkien Cosplay! Each week, we’ll be picking a few of our favorite Tolkien-inspired costumes. If you’d like to be considered for an upcoming post, please send in your photo and the following information to cosplay@theonering.net :
Name (can be a nickname if you’d rather not have your secret identity revealed)
Who you are cosplaying as
Photographers name (if known)
A short bio (such as: who made the costume, how long it took to make, and any other details about it you’d like to share)
Welcome to The Week in Tolkien Cosplay! Every Friday, we’ll be featuring some of our favorite Tolkien-inspired costumes. If you’d like to submit your costume, please send a clear photo and the following information to cosplay@theonering.net:
Name (can be a nickname if you’d rather not have your secret identity revealed)
Who you are cosplaying as
Photographers name (if known)
A short bio (such as: who made the costume, how long it took to make, and any other details about it you’d like to share)
Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our Great Hall of Poets.
So come and join us by the hearth and enjoy!
If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you’d like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.netOne poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors.
If you have a Tolkien/Middle-earth inspired poem you’d like to share, then send it to poetry@theonering.net. One poem per person may be submitted each month. Please make sure to proofread your work before sending it in. TheOneRing.net is not responsible for poems posting with spelling or grammatical errors.
Attention cosplayers! TheOneRing.net is pleased to announce a new weekly feature: The Week in Tolkien Cosplay. We know there are many creative fans in the Tolkien community, and we would like to showcase some the amazing costumes out there. They can be from the books or movies, just as long as they are Tolkien-related. We’ll be posting a few of our favorites each Friday, starting January 29th.
Name (can be a nickname if you’d rather not have your secret identity revealed)
Who you are cosplaying as
Photographers name (if known)
A short bio (such as: who made the costume, how long it took to make, and any other details about it you’d like to share)
The talented Janette has been gracious enough to share her amazing Thorin as an example:
Thorin Oakenshield by Janette Jolman- Photograph by NV-US Photography
“The picture above took about a year to make and has over 700 handmade pieces of clay for the brigandine armor. It consists of about 5 layers ranging from velvet to leather and utilized materials such as foam, wood, vinyl, resin and leather. This was a challenging build for me as all my previous costumes for the last decade, had been primarily armor builds and this required learning how to use a sewing machine and was also a first for making prosthetics. I’ve been doing costuming for about 13 years. One of my earliest cosplays was actually a second age elf from the prologue of LOTR.”
By submitting your photo and information, you give TheOneRing.net permission to publish it to our website, as well as social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc..) Submission does not guarantee your photo will be published.
Welcome to The Great Hall of Poets, our regular monthly feature showcasing the talent of Middle-earth fans. Each month we will feature a small selection of the poems submitted, but we hope you will read all of the poems that we have received here in our 