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
Name: Victoria Gridley (The Gridler)
Character: Radagast the Brown
Photographer: SnapHappyIan
Bio: Radagast took me about two really fun weeks to complete! He’s such a character.
Name: Erik Keith, Gigawatts, Aaron Thompson, Ash
Characters: Kili, Galadriel, Bilbo, Thorin
Photographer: Krashly
Bio: Our group of friends loved the costume design from The Hobbit movies. So, we decided to enter Emerald City Comic Con’s costume contest and ended up taking home 1st place in the Group category. We loved working together so
much that, afterwards, some of us got together with one of our favorite photographers for a huge shoot on Tiger Mountain in Seattle, WA.
Name: Doug Cottrell
Character: Aragorn
Photographer: Unknown
Bio: I’m a hobby costumer, with several Star Wars costumes under my belt. I’d wanted to do a LotR costume for some time. I built this costume over several months, and hand made the shirt, boots, and fellowship cape (not pictured). I had commissioned leather craftspeople to make the suede vest and the belt. I bought a wig online and had it professionally styled. This was originally a Halloween costume that I’ve been upgrading to make more authentic. Most recently I acquired a realistic sword and sheath.
