It was only a matter of time right?
Lord of The Rings is kind of a big deal over here. It's easily our number one comfort watch as a duo. It was played so much one year I had to ban it because we needed variety. But did we really? Anyways, when we watch it, it's only the extended cut starting with the Fellowship Of The Ring. Or if we're looking to really dig in we start with the Hobbit...
Anyways, we really like Lord of The Rings. So for my birthday I was like can we please recreate the Fellowship with me as Gimli? But we ran out of time and so we pivoted to Halloween. Obviously we waited until the last minute to nail down details and for some reason the kids did not want to join in on our epic halloween costumes this year. Their loss, obviously.
So it was down to the two of us to recreate the iconic Tolkien characters.
Legolas and Gimli
Sure, we had tons of options and David probably could have been Aragorn, Gandalf and even Gollum. But was there a more iconic duo than an elf and an a dwarf (aside from Frodo and Sam)? The size difference between the two of us was too perfect - so we ran with it. Also it's hilarious.
Now to put it together in a jiffy because, yes, we waited until two days before Halloween to really consider putting a costume together and if I'm being honest I didn't know what we were wearing until the night before/day of. However, David did make/mold Gimli's helmet out of cardboard for me a couple days before and I did the finishing gold paint touches the morning of.
So we have a helmet and a long blonde wig.
Now what?
I definitely wanted to use my own hair for the Gimli beard, so I pulled half of my hair to the front and braided it to look like a full beard. It looked perfect but it was a little itchy above my lip.
For the clothes, I just piled on the layers in Gimli colors to resemble him as much as I could. I layered in.a sequin dress to resemble the mail-chain armor he wore into battle. It wasn't perfect but neutrals and layering was the way to go. I did clunky lace up boots and finished with a cape.
For Legolas, we had a pirate like shirt that kind of fit the bill with skinny pants and a cape. Later (after we took pics) we added a belt to tie it together a little better. But I think it works - you obviously know who we are...
...we were stopped about a dozen times asking if we were Legolas and Gimli so it tracked enough.
Was it perfect? No. But it was enough and I loved it either way..
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