Middle Earth Ranger Forum

I figured it was worth introducing myself!

I've generally been more involved in outdoors and traditional skills than I have in Tolkien's works (since I was a teen, anyway), but I recently got back into them and am excited to marry these two passions. I was genuinely pleasantly surprised to see this forum was not only still running but still active when I came across it googling around; so many I find have gone the way of the dodo one way or the other by the time I came across them, and that speaks promisingly of the robust nature of this community

While this may not be the easiest time for getting out and about in the woods, it's been an excellent time for crafting gear and I'm looking forward to continuing that - with a middle-earth focus - here.

Hello and Welcome

Mae Govannen! Welcome to the forum! Tell us about yourself and your crafting! Ranger? Rohirrim? Dwarf? Leather crafting, metal, wood? It’s always to good to have people that make things by hand.

Probably a man (well, woman) of the wilds of Eriador of some kind, not sure whether a ranger specifically or not

Though I do plan, regardless of character (though mirkwood elf is a second, if less likely, possibility), on making one of those mirkwood camoflague tunics, maybe try hunting turkey in it lmao

I've been doing a lot of work with leather recently (got a whole half hide of moose recently so), most of it not really appropriate for middle earth though unless I was up by the ice bay - a beaver fur Siberian/Alaskan style trappers hat, ditto for the birch bark handled yakut knife. The dog fur felt liners might work once theres boots to go over them. First thing I finished recently specifically for this was a grey cloak - well, somewhere between a cloak and a ruana, I made it like the one Gandalf wears, or a shorter version of movie strider's.

Planning on starting with a tunic and some undergarments, though I'm going to make mockups first because the last shift I made fit *awfully*

Welcome!

Hail Ranger, Welcome.

Sorrel wrote: I've been doing a lot of work with leather recently (got a whole half hide of moose recently so), most of it not really appropriate for middle earth though unless I was up by the ice bay - a beaver fur Siberian/Alaskan style trappers hat, ditto for the birch bark handled yakut knife. The dog fur felt liners might work once theres boots to go over them. First thing I finished recently specifically for this was a grey cloak - well, somewhere between a cloak and a ruana, I made it like the one Gandalf wears, or a shorter version of movie strider's.

Sounds awesome I'd love to see pictures of the cloak

Sorrel wrote:Planning on starting with a tunic and some undergarments, though I'm going to make mockups first because the last shift I made fit *awfully*

Yep, making mock-ups first is the way to go, even when I'm confident the pattern is good I still end up changing something

Hail and well met!

Hello and welcome!

What a neat idea for a setting you have in mind - I'm really curious to see what you do with it!