I think given the arm guards found on the Mary Rose: mary-rose-bracer.jpg https://leatherworkingreverend.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/testing/#jp-carousel-384 .... we can safely assume that while professional archers knew the string shouldn't clip the forearm... sometimes things happen. :mrgreen: I do t...

Hunh. It just now occurred to me that being a young boy in the late 19th/early 20th c., Tolkien probably grew up in short britches. I can totally imagine that some of his subconscious mental image of the dress of the Shire was shaped by running the dirt lanes of the English countryside in something ...

The level of technology in a toolkit is an interesting question - I recall once seeing an archaeological picture of I think a Roman hammer and it looked staggeringly like a modern tool. Given the Dwarven reputation for fine worksmanship, I'd think lots of handtools from the late 18th-early 19th cent...

Those are awesome! I really like the direction you're going - I think you're getting quite close to the Professor's mental image there. The plaque belt especially is interesting. I've been looking at metallic belt plaques for other things recently, and I can easily see something like this in a dwarv...

Welcome Ruinferil!

Really curious to see what you get up to!

Oh very cool! I love the idea of that leather roll! Regarding what goes in it though - wouldn't that be somewhat of a function of what your persona does ? I imagine a toy carver would carry different tools from a tinker, for instance. (Now that I think on it, I *love* the idea of a dwarven toymaker ...

Happy Birthday!

I hope you had a grand hike!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

HORSE snowshoes nonetheless, according to those that found it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1L8m4iom-_/

There's an interesting observation in this article and comments: https://middle-earth.xenite.org/mead-ever-consumed-middle-earth/ ... which seems to suggest mead had more noble connotations that grain-based drinks, both in Middle-earth and in the cultures that inspired it. I don't know what that sug...

Wow!

That's gonna be fascinating - I can't wait to see how it comes out!


May I ask more about the artwork? Is it going to be one of those blocky knotwork patterns or the like?

Happy birthday!

Wow!

I am going to have to try this whole walnut-on-wood thing you guys have managed to work out - it looks great!

... I like how the fletching matches.