Middle Earth Ranger Forum

It's all well and good to have sweet gear and kit, but to really get into the headspace of an individual in Middle-earth, it helps to be able to visualize things. I had started sketching these back in March (bored at a school board meeting!) and finally got them scanned in and touched up today.

On the Enemy's side, we have
-a small orc (what hobbits would probably call a 'goblin');
-a bow-legged, long-armed orc like Grishnakh;
-a taller orc (inspired by the armored chieftain who speared Frodo in Moria, and who could probably be a little taller);
-a Troll (in the vein of Bill, Bert, & Tom as opposed to an Olog-hai of Mordor);
-and a Balrog. (the flames didn't come out very well in the scan)

for the Free Peoples, we have
-a realistically-scaled Beorn (Bilbo was supposed to have been able to pass under his tunic without ducking, which would make Beorn about 12 or 13 feet high; I think it's much more likely that Bilbo exaggerated, instead of Beorn being several feet taller than Thingol 'tallest of all the Children of Ilúvatar');
-an Average-height, (non-Dunedain) Man (yours truly);
-Galadriel (6'4");
-a Dwarf (5' here for an average, though I'd imagine they were generally in the 4-5' range)
-Bilbo or an a average hobbit (3'6");
-Merry or Pippin (4'6"!--isn't Ent-draught incredible?);
-Aragorn II (6'6");
-a Wose (4'6" here, although given their general Neanderthal-ness, I'd be inclined to picture them a bit taller, more like 5'+);
-Elendil the Tall (2.5 ranga = 7'11");
-Thingol Greymantle (a hair under 9' here);
-and an Ent! ("at least 14 feet").

Absolutely awesome. Thanks for sharing your boredom with us!

So at 6'5 I would be a dunedain?

Nice!

Average American male is something like 5' 9" or so. Average Dutch man, thanks to genetics, diet and access to medical resources, is something like 6' 4".