The Twins of Imladris Paper Dolls by Winterwitch

[ysilme]

Title: The Twins of Imladris as Paper Dolls
Name: Winterwitch / the_winterwitch
Prompt: Use the following song to inspire your writing or artwork: “O Lusty May” by Ensemble Estampie
Description: Paper dolls of Elladan and Elrohir als children. Traditional drawing with felt marker, coloured pencils and pigment ink pens in gold and silver on paper and Origami paper, the dolls on very thin cardboard.
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Artist's Notes: These were originally intended to be illustrations to my B2MeM story for the same prompt, but in the story, the visit to the seamstress never happened after all. You might even ask how the paper dolls relate to the prompt: probably just by having been generally inspired by it and being drawn with the characters and story in mind, and perhaps the Nost-na-Lothion robes having been made for the twins for their first spring festival.


Click on the images for large views. If you have troubles with the display of these images, you can see them all also here.







This was an experiment with Origami paper, but the boys don't really approve. Too girlish for them.






(Sadly, the gold and silver pigment ink doesn't come out well in the scan of these and the following clothes.)

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If you want to print the dolls out, please go here for printing sheets in colour and black & white (link to an image heavy page). The images presented in this entry are too small as well as proportioned slightly differently.

Comments

[greatandgrey]

Paper dolls! I loved these as a little kid, and used to attempt making my own. I really love the designs you gave to Elladan and Elrohir. :)

[rathanylakan.livejournal.com]

So cute!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Those are wonderful - I especially like the fancy nightwear from Daer Naneth that they are never likely to wear.

[shirebound]

These are terrific! What fun.

[tanis2014.livejournal.com]

O.M.G! These are PRICELESS! And you made ones for us to color, too! Oh, Winterwitch, these are awesome! I love the ones you've colored, especially the Mettare robes! And the descriptions underneath of their uses AND the materials they're made from ... my head is spinning at the total *wow* factor of this shareable craft!

I'm gonna go print them out at work tomorrow and go directly to buy colored pencils after work so I can make my own set. They are sooooooo cute! Thank you thank you thank you for sharing these with us!

OMG

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

OMG! I love these with all my heart. I was so big on making my own paper dolls with my two sisters as a kid. I love these. I made of some for my youngest for her birthday just a couple of years ago. (We are ancient.) These are just too cute for words! You are really, really good at it!

[kittotter.livejournal.com]

These are adorable. I love all the colors and detail you put into them! The sleepwear is lovely; I was thinking even before I read the text -- ooohhh, those SO came from their daernaneth. XD
Celebrian: *sobbing* "Aren't those precious!!!"
Els: >-< >-<
Elrond: "..."

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!!!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

What a cute idea! :D I love the outfits themselves as welll as the descriptions (heh, Galadriel getting them flowery pyjamas!) this is just so adorable!

(Now I'm wondering how many of these outfits, especially the fancy onces, survived the twins' adolescence intact. :D

[hhimring]

Very neat!
Something tells me they might prefer the "outdoor mischief" clothes. But the festival robes are gorgeous and perhaps they'll come to appreciate them as well.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

How clever and beautifully done! I bet the Riding and Hunting outfits are their favorites. :)

[engarian.livejournal.com]

What a marvelous idea. I love all of the clothing, but am especially fond of Galadriel's contribution. I used to play with paper dolls and loved them. You've brought back fond childhood memories of more than 50 years ago :-)

- Erulisse (one L)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

OMW, these are GORGEOUS! What a brilliant idea. And it's so lovely that you've included clothes for us to colour as well - I don't have anyone the right age to share these with, but I might download and colour anyhow, just for the feelgood factor and the memories ... loved paper dolls when I was little.

Just so clever and so really well done! I think this is my favourite amongst the art submissions.

[paranoidangel]

I do like these, especially the comment for the Formal Robes saying 'for spiffy dinner, important guests and other nuisances'.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I just love these! What great fun and so creative!

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of or seen paper dolls before, unless you count the John Mayer song. ;) These are wonderful, and your descriptions of the fabrics are a treat in themselves.

[tanis2014.livejournal.com]

If this works, this should be paper dolls Elladan and Elrohir in front of Bag End. If it does work I'll try tweak the others and post them too.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

How very cool! Such detail and these are so professional-looking! Great artwork! These made me smile today.

[elliska.livejournal.com]

What a fun and clever idea. And well executed! Loved them!

[minuial_nuwing]

Oh, I love these! I adored paper dolls as a child and these are absolutely perfect. The clothes are awesome! *g*

(Found the post through a link on keiliss's journal)

[independence1776]

These are fantastic! I love all of the different outfits.

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

This is such a cool idea, and nicely done! I love them, I used to play with those dolls as a kid so it is cool to see a childhood past time intersect with my current fandom interests. :)