Middle Earth Ranger Forum

Well, my son was 5 when he came up with the idea of making Orcs to place in the woods at my Dragons Wood Inn project, as targets. He's 7 now and I've been so busy with so many things, but last weekend, we finally got started on one.

The frame is left-over or scrap wood that I've hauled off from people getting rid of it on Craigslist. The stuffing is either old closed-cell foam from the Goodwill 'dollar a pound' store or couch cushions from garbage day curb sitters. The clothing, etc. , are from the Goodwill 'dollar a pound' store.

It's mostly done. I hope to be shooting arrows at it next weekend.

There are more photos at the Dragons Wood Inn Facebook page.

I'm personally okay with it, in fact, cool and neat! What fun!

Keep in mind that many people will give you a hard time with humanoid targets in archery. I remember that our Andy brought this up on Swordforum and caught no end of grief for it.

THAT IS AWESOME!!!!

I'd like to get something like that set up here as well - maybe once I actually get good even get some inexpensive mail for 'em to try to shoot around.

And folks gave Andy grief for fun targets? Spoilsports.

Kortoso wrote:I'm personally okay with it, in fact, cool and neat! What fun!

Keep in mind that many people will give you a hard time with humanoid targets in archery. I remember that our Andy brought this up on Swordforum and caught no end of grief for it.

I'm too old to care what other people think.

It is interest what people will get upset about. In the 'making of' parts of the "Lord of the Rings" movies, Peter Jackson mentions that the Wargs look more like hyenas and the Oliphaunts have 4 tusks, etc. , simply to avoid people complaining about 'killing' wolves and elephants in the films.

Which reminds me of the great internet troll who took an image of Steven Spielberg leaning on the animatronic triceratops from "Jurassic Park" and posted it on Facebook as an outrage that rich and famous filmmaker Spielberg had gone hunting the very endangered triceratops. It was forwarded with all sorts of indignant comments.