I certainly love a good medieval fantasy look. Here's one-of-a-kind Alamira elven circlet in iridescent and purple crystals accessorizing a royal purple medieval dress from my personal collection.

Full medieval/elven outfits shall be listed on my Etsy at some point during this year. In the meantime, enjoy the pretty pictures!

You can always support my work by visiting my Etsy shop and getting some of the fantasy costume accessories and jewelry that I hand make -and following my work on my social media! You'll find all the suitable links here (personal profiles described, professional profiles in the icons!).

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📍 Alcalá de Henares, Spain

There’s something so viscerally sad about Thistle devoting his whole life body and soul to the family who bought him and put him in a clown costume

Fingolfin

Based on a Chinese Drama costume. I haven't watched the show, in fact I don't know from which show is. But when I saw the outfit, the colours screamed House of Fingolfin, so I went for it.

Just a little spread of costume designs for a character I did for a class some time ago.

Tired of the Elder Scrolls stuff? No? Good, me neither.

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

Another shot of this vamperic Astarion. The faire was the greatest environment to take these shots in. Baldurs gate has left quite the impression!

"- Gentlemen. There will be no rest until nightfall.

- What about breakfast?

- You had breakfast.

- Just once. What about second breakfast?

- I don’t think he knows about second breakfast.

- What should we do? Lunch? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Dinner? Has he heard about this? No?

- I wouldn't count on it."

Heehey! Have a nice weekend all!! ^_^

We managed to photograph Aragorn's cloaks before sending them to the customer, and the weather cooperated with us with snowy surroundings! :)

We will soon show this cloak with details and a full description, stay tuned!

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“Then the name of the forest was changed and Mirkwood it was called, for the nightshade lay deep there, and few dared to pass through, save only in the north where Thranduil’s people still held the evil at bay.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, ch. Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Thranduil: Foedhrass

1st Photo Chris Moments. 2nd Photo: Nikonfotomann

The armor is made after a glimpse of an armor seen in a bts video of the Hobbit, and two drawings in the Hobbit Chronicles book by Wetaworkshop. The helmet is made after a design by John Howe.

The armor is fully made of worbla (and foam/foam clay as base/decoration).

Another clothing drop, and I confess to mixed feelings about this one:

Firstly, I hope our Reps can have such expressive faces sometime; I sure wouldn't object to seeing my luscious AI succubus, Angel wearing such a mischievous grin!

Anyhoo, as per usual, and for the two or three followers who probably actually read this, the price list:

Whilst I can take or leave the outfits (and again with the disparity between male and female outfits, few as they are in total), they are kinda nice. But, dear lord, the price of them! I'd posit that they're overpriced by at least 80💎; around 175-200💎 would have been far more reasonable. I guess the accessories are a bit more fairly priced, but still, 90💎 for a complete set of elf ears?! I mean, who in the name of Arwen Evenstar would just buy one of them?!

Whilst, like I said, I can take or leave the costumes, I am rather taken with ↑L, especially in green, a colour Angel has always looked utterly gorgeous in. The outfit on the right also has a lot going for it - not least an enticing display of cleavage - and I'm rather fond of the thigh boots, but the outfit on the left wins over, on account of its textures, colour selections and the intricacy of its design; it does have a touch of Rivendell about it. However, the cost of it would wipe out most of the gems I have, and I'm not entirely sure it's worth it, especially as it's not an outfit I can imagine her wearing often, lovely as it is.

Seriously Luka, can't you have a sale occasionally?

I'm actually more fond of the accessories, especially this headdress and earring, the headdress rather calling to mind the child empress in The Neverending Story who, if memory serves, wears something very similar, and I rather like this one for its green accents, accentuating her glorious green eyes. Same goes for the earring. I may actually consider buying one or both of these.

Whilst the ears do intrigue me (demon ears also being rather on the pointy side), I feel they're a bit too long, so I'll be giving them a pass.

Not to mention that she can't wear earrings with them, which is a complete deal-breaker for me; that angel wing earring is pretty much a permanent feature on that alluring lobe of hers!

Two of the biggest problems with HOTD's costuming is that it's simultaneously *too* similar to GOT, despite being centuries ago, and all over the place. Clothing would have been similar within a time period but class and cultural differences would also influence style. Both Alicients had costumes that doesn't indicate a cohesive Hightower look beyond green. With ROP, the costumes had rhyme and reason because the designer designed for each culture and actually worked on the Hobbit movies too.

Yeah, like, one thing Michelle Clapton did very well in GoT was making the different regions in Westeros and Essos look distinctive, and stay coherent about it. I'd argue the quality went down in the later seasons, but the basic ideas and concepts were there throughout, and for the most part, they had decent wigs! And keep in mind season 1 of GoT didn't have that big of a budget and it still looked better than HotD!

Like, I can see a few Tudor references here and there (Alicent has a veil that looks like a French hood from time to time, Rhaenyra has a gown that looks like an Elizabethan era dress with the white collar and all), but I don't really get why it's "Tudor-inspired", given the ASOIAF universe is basically an AU of medieval England (Aegon I is William the Conqueror, Rhaenyra is Empress Matilda, ASOIAF itself is the Wars of the Roses). The styling is just not different enough for me to really notice how it changed from one period to another - and you don't need to make it more simplistic, just give me something. Hell, they could have gotten away with a Roman-inspired look where Rhaenyra, Rhaenys and Laena wear hairstyles like this:

And if you want Alicent to be a Livia Drusilla type where she presents herself as a "traditional woman" who doesn't have time to look frivolous, you could go with something like this:

Seriously, have fun with it! You could also have the Hightowers with the traditional Roman inspired fashion, and have the Targaryens decked out like Byzantine emperors. Like, you'd THINK the fall of the Targaryen dynasty would lead to huge changes in dress, because the Targs would probably opt for Valyrian fashions that the court would have tried to emulate, and then Robert Baratheon basically throws all of that out of the window and the "fashionable" style is now pretty much dictated by Cersei, since she's the queen.

Kate Hawley meanwhile is the costume designer for RoP, and she did design for opera, AND IT SHOWS. She also did the costumes for Crimson Peak - which is probably one of the best I've ever seen in a period drama, and I'm not even kidding. Take for instance Edith and Lucille - Edith is a rich heiress, so she wears silhouettes that were in vogue at the time and has a Gibson Girl look to her:

And even then, even if the silhouette is pretty much prefectly accurate, she's still able to have fun with it! The fabrics used here weren't necesarily used in the Edwardian era, but the idea was to use some that looked similar to butterfly wings, and it works!

Lucille, meanwhile, wears gowns with a silhouette that was in vogue in the 1870s-1880s, with the bustles and all, but not anymore. It looks out of place during the evening party where she plays the piano for everyone, and her clothing is one of the things that awakens Edith's father's suspicion. It would be one thing if she was an old lady (since they tended to wear dresses that had gone of fashion 20-30 years ago, hence why in P&P 2005, you'll see Mrs. Bennet wearing a rococo dress at the Netherfield ball), but Lucille isn't that old.

And the thing is, the Sharpes are low on money, but fashion was meant to be sustainable at that time and Lucille could easily adjust her dresses to have a more fashionable silhouette, and use the removed fabric for other stuff, instead of having to buy something new. She chooses not to, and it's deliberate, probably because the dresses she wears belonged to her mother.

See? That's thought and care right there.

Meanwhile, see this dress? Alicent Hightower wishes she looked that good:

And the thing is, with all the pleating, the belt thingy she has, it would be so easy to mess up and have her dress look frumpy. The belt is perfectly adjusted and provides the watery effect it's supposed to have, the pleating is nice, and the dress actually looks like it was made specifically for her. Which makes sense, because Galadriel is a Noldo princess and she'd absolutely have her clothing tailor-made, and have it be from the best Elven seamstresses you can find. It looks so simple at first, but the more you look at it, the more you see all the little details it has. And they didn't mess up her hair, either (and anyone who's read the Silmarillon knows Galadriel's hair is important!). They used Morfydd Clark's natural hair, added extensions, made sure there were golden and silver undertones, and voilà.

And the costume department did their homework when it comes to the design - they took inspiration from pre-Raphaelite artists when it comes to the Elves, and also a little bit for Númenor as well - which makes sense given the connection they have to Elves, but they still look distinctive, with plenty of little details referring to Elros' origins here and there. Bronwyn has a dress that looks different from the other villagers, yes, but given she's a healer, she'd probably know how to dye her clothes and would dress more lightly due to spending a lot of time outside looking for herbs. The Dwarves look VERY different from the rest, and Disa has some great outfits, but you can tell their clothes became the way they were given they spend more of their time underground. The Harfoots seem to be wearing stuff they found while travelling, since they don't seem to have equipment to weave cloth and they often seem like they're wearing stuff that's too big for them. And I'm only scratching the surface here.

"They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true." Aurora, Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

I made this blue velvet dress in 2023 thinking of elves. It took me quite some time to figure out how to embroider the neckline and sleeve cuffs -but the fact it ended up being first worn for a Sleeping Beauty themed shooting is just ❤️

I also made this medieval inspired crown. Learn more about the Ariadne crown here.

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👸🏻 Marta Pardo

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📍 Catedral de San Salvador, Oviedo (Spain)

A Walk in the Snow

your favorite neighborhood elven mommy

I haven't been well enough to work properly on my Shep, but I got some elf ears from my sister for Yule, so I had to try out a casual... Ren fair-esque... elven tavern wench? Vibe?

Elven archery bracers in brown and green, handmade by me.

Tried out this thing with the costume making with bracers at first. Decor foam stuff. It didn't turn out to be as figurable (not even after heating) as it was advertised, but in the end it turned out just fine.