Middle Earth Ranger Forum

...and I'm jealous.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdib5m8lbYN/

Oh that's lovely!
Naturally our own designs are more to my taste, but I love his approach. The incomplete accent lines in the rays really set it out, as do the manually peened pins on the border. Do you know what stone he used, and why?

... I do wish he'd come back around sometime. His voice - and talent - were great to have here.

It almost looks as if he incised the lines in the metal, rather than casting it.

Elleth wrote:Oh that's lovely!
Naturally our own designs are more to my taste, but I love his approach. The incomplete accent lines in the rays really set it out, as do the manually peened pins on the border. Do you know what stone he used, and why?

... I do wish he'd come back around sometime. His voice - and talent - were great to have here.

Yes I agree, love to have him back.

Yes, I do agree, it feels more rustic than the ones we've done, but I think there's a place for that.

I believe he used a garnet, because it seems to be his go-to stone.

Kortoso wrote:It almost looks as if he incised the lines in the metal, rather than casting it.

Yes, on the Instagram post he notes that he engraved it.

That's amazing

He really did do a fantastic job on that, but I agree, our own interpretations are more accurate to the description.

J.R.R. Tolkien, in the Return of the King wrote:"A little apart the Rangers sat, silent, in an ordered company, armed with spear and bow and sword. They were clad in cloaks of dark grey.... [They did not] bear any badge or token, save only that each cloak was pinned upon the left shoulder by a brooch of silver shaped like a rayed star."

A brooch engraved with a rayed star his might be, but at ten feet (ish) I would expect from the quote that an actual Dunedain star would be star-shaped at its outermost edges, and clearly discernible as such, even at distances where metalworking details are blurred.

Hello Fellow Wanderers!
I am very glad that you like the brooch i made! As for a fair criticism that it is not authentic i have a lot to say. My approach is artistic, not literalist and i tend to fulfill the grey areas of the Middle earth with my knowledge of the text and my fantasy. I also think that Dunedain culture is long living and rich so to expect that all starbrooched ever made were the same might be a little shortsighted. My Middle Earth is approched from marginalia

It's a wonderful work of art and the pictures you posted are stunning.

Gulli! It's so good to have you back!

That is absolutely fantastic work! I love it - and as Peter notes - your photography as well.

As to the star itself I quite agree that simply because it doesn't quite match the description of those worn by the Grey Company we needn't assume someone in Eriador hadn't crafted it at some time. The hand-worked feel is just fantastic.

Lovely lovely work.

speaking of pictures, i want to start photo project featuring my middlearth work, here is one

Very impressed, I espeshaly like the smaller knife