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by Darnokthemage
Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: Human Culture(s)
Topic: Beorning nobleman knife
Replies: 15
Views: 7811

Re: Beorning nobleman knife

Amazed!

I can easily see this as a knife as the first-generation Beorning noble, Steel from the Iron hills and Erebor would have flooded the market.
by Darnokthemage
Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:18 am
Forum: Elvish Culture
Topic: Elvish knives of the Ainu
Replies: 5
Views: 4714

Re: Elvish knives of the Ainu

They are extremely beautiful!

And i think these would fit a Elven kit, even if it's non-movie!
by Darnokthemage
Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:16 am
Forum: Dwarven Culture
Topic: Dwarf Names in The Hobbit: Manuscript Sources
Replies: 2
Views: 2907

Re: Dwarf Names in The Hobbit: Manuscript Sources

Interesting!

I know Thorin was originally named Gandalf, before he gave that name to the Wizard.
by Darnokthemage
Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:56 pm
Forum: Human Culture(s)
Topic: Did the Men of Dale have a cavalry?
Replies: 22
Views: 7365

Re: Did the Men of Dale have a cavalry?

I would go with a round shield, Early Middle ages/Carolingian. Probably paint it in a nice red or yellow.
by Darnokthemage
Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:38 pm
Forum: Human Culture(s)
Topic: new Impression: Man of the Greyflood, c. SA 850
Replies: 12
Views: 4840

Re: new Impression: Man of the Greyflood, c. SA 850

Exciting! My personal guess would be that Bronze was something that existed in the region, rare and prized, but probably pre-numenorean contact. Is it not mentioned somewhere that the Numenoreans teached these people to work iron? Or am i misremembering, And that just like in Real life, Stone tools ...
by Darnokthemage
Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:49 pm
Forum: Soft Kit
Topic: Dúnedain tunic, v 1.0
Replies: 20
Views: 23522

Re: Dúnedain tunic, v 1.0

My "suggestions" would be that the silks spoken of is Sea-silk harvested by the Lindon Elves and later sold to the dwarves.
by Darnokthemage
Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:25 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A discord server!
Replies: 5
Views: 2010

A discord server!

https://discord.gg/Q8zFBdZKjv

Link to a discord server from the Facebook group, thought some of you might be interested.
by Darnokthemage
Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:20 pm
Forum: Dunedain Culture
Topic: Numenorean Crossbows!
Replies: 2
Views: 4399

Numenorean Crossbows!

"They made bows of many kinds: long bows, and smaller bows, especially those used for shooting from horse-back; and they also devised cross-bows, at first used mainly against predatory birds. Shooting with bows was one of the great sports and pastimes of men; and one in which young women also t...
by Darnokthemage
Sun May 09, 2021 9:14 pm
Forum: Middle-earth Reenactment Society
Topic: Summer 2020 available now!
Replies: 17
Views: 26993

Re: Summer 2020 available now!

I can't seem to post the picture i was meant to post, but on the topic of the "light boats" traveling down the Anduin. We know Ottar (who was an 9th century northern norwegian man traveling eastwards) had very light boats that could be carried for some distances with him on his eastwards e...
by Darnokthemage
Tue May 04, 2021 5:17 pm
Forum: Elvish Culture
Topic: Elven spinning
Replies: 18
Views: 12353

Re: Elven spinning

I wonder how Elven disstaffs would look, or even if they would use them? Because i think it is quite likely they spun in the same way as in Europe, with a disstaff holding and wool and two hands on the string. I quite like this depiction of a woman using her head as a distaff, and i find it quite fi...
by Darnokthemage
Mon May 03, 2021 8:00 pm
Forum: Human Culture(s)
Topic: Here's one for the Beornings out there.
Replies: 6
Views: 7508

Re: Here's one for the Beornings out there.

I think copper and bronze probably fits very well for a dunlending persona, tho with some iron (mostly knives, and axes). Same could be said for what i think is a pre-haladin population in the Edenwaith, the barbaric fisherfolk wandering the coast. They would probably mostly be limited to flint and ...
by Darnokthemage
Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:39 am
Forum: Hard Kit
Topic: The Ceresilk tarp
Replies: 22
Views: 14398

Re: The Ceresilk tarp

I know the ancient greeks sometimes made silk from wild silk worms, so i suppose it could fit. Tho, i still think it feels too "Oriental" to fit in the shire.
by Darnokthemage
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:18 am
Forum: Hard Kit
Topic: The Ceresilk tarp
Replies: 22
Views: 14398

Re: The Ceresilk tarp

My money is that it's actually sea silk, which is a textile made from the hair of the Byssys oister. They traditionally appear around greece, but i think it is likely they could have adapted for the colder water of Lindon. So basically the shire gets it silk from dwarves trading with the elves of Li...
by Darnokthemage
Thu Oct 08, 2020 8:02 pm
Forum: Middle-earth Reenactment Society
Topic: Autumn 2020 available now!
Replies: 9
Views: 13443

Re: Autumn 2020 available now!

Yum! Lots of great stuff in here, on the topic of cloaks (as i posted on facebook) the Roman paenula cloak and hood gives us a perfect garment to base the Ithilien Ranger cloaks on. Likely developing from a pan-Dunnic (breeman dunlander etc) version of it, the cloak would have been adapted in both N...
by Darnokthemage
Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: Dunedain Culture
Topic: Dunedain Marriage Prospects
Replies: 7
Views: 12859

Re: Dunedain Marriage Prospects

We know that the men of Dol Amroth have elven blood in them, and i don't remember, but i do think tolkien tells us that they did not marry each other before producing heirs. One might also guess the same of some dunedain, but i do not think there were marriages similar to the "big names", ...