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Post by Michael O'Brien on Sept 30, 2011 15:05:58 GMT
Welcome to another exciting chance to add your ideas and dreams to Mithril's LOTR miniatures.
Post your suggestions here. ONE per member.
This month's ideas is for single figures only, so no mounted or Vignettes (more than 2 people or a lot of furniture + two people) please. A mounted figure counts as two figures (horse/camel/warg/etc)
The only other restriction is that the figures MUST conform to our license, so NO Silmarillion based characters are allowed. They have to be in the Hobbit or LOTR books. The final say is ours and no arguement will be allowed. Ask if you are worried about its eligiability.
Please submit ideas in the following format ONLY:
IDEA TITLE
"this is why I think 'Idea Title' is a good idea for this month..."
Make the title stand out (within reason) and separate from any supportive text by a paragragh. This will prevent Chris accidently overlooking it when he compiles the voting list later on. Otherwise it could be mistaken as a comment not a new suggestion.
Please add some quotes about where it is mentioned or give descriptions to promote your suggestion. Even add a picture or submit it to me to add to the gallery page. If you drum up support NOW, the you have a much better chance when it is time to vote.
Voting will begin on the 17th of October (first round). We stop taking suggestions at 16.00 GMT on the 16th.
You may add comments about other members suggestions as well. If you post any suggestions elsewhere it may not be seen or credited. Please post any suggestions in English. (That is all I can respond in, sorry).
If you have any questions then post in the other thread provided for such questions.
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Post by ddaines on Oct 2, 2011 12:50:16 GMT
The (drunken) Captain of the Guard (hic!) I'll resubmit last month's suggestion The Captain of the Guard of Thranduil's dungeons. As this is a singles month he would be standing (not straight), helmet skew-whiff on his head and a silly expresion on his face. Holding a large flagon of the best Dorwinion wine in one hand he could be gesturing to an unseen Galion the butler, enjoying an elvish joke maybe. An important factor would be a large bunch of dungeon keys attached to his belt. Being the Captain of the guard his weapon would probably be a sword sheathed at his side, but he could have a spear held in the crook of his arm to add a bit of interest. Read more: mithrilfigures.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=2011archive&action=display&thread=1095#ixzz1ZczZIjkG |
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Post by ddaines on Oct 4, 2011 18:06:51 GMT
Where is everyone? At this rate I'll be voting for myself ;D
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Post by Theobald on Oct 5, 2011 14:47:53 GMT
There still is time ... why haste? ;D
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Post by ddaines on Oct 5, 2011 20:53:24 GMT
Never known it this slow ;D
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Post by Thingol on Oct 6, 2011 8:16:55 GMT
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Post by twrich on Oct 8, 2011 5:14:31 GMT
Hello friends.
I will try again with [glow=red,2,300]Girion of Dale[/glow]
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Post by Theobald on Oct 9, 2011 13:58:54 GMT
female orc
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Post by barliman on Oct 9, 2011 15:02:35 GMT
Very terse, Master Tree! Almost as if you were in a hurry (perish the thought).
At risk of people sighing "Oh no, not another Gandalf," I'd like to suggest a version of the Grey Pilgrim that hasn't appeared from Mithril yet, or from anyone else so far as I'm aware -
Gandalf in Fangorn Forest
I have in mind the dishevelled old man seen by the Three Hunters as they sought Merry and Pippin, "All in dirty grey rags" over his white robes (which should be visible just very slightly at the front, for painters' sakes!): "It looked like an old beggar-man ... leaning on a rough staff ... He was hooded, and above the hood he wore a wide-brimmed hat, so that his features were over-shadowed, except for the end of his nose and his grey beard".
Points for Chris to especially note are his ragged cloak, his rough staff and the fact that his hood is worn under his hat.
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Post by Theobald on Oct 9, 2011 16:25:48 GMT
Err ... yes, Master Barliman, that's a fine idea for a vignette. Though this is a single-figure suggestion this month, isn't it?
What would be the Grey Pilgrim without a tree?
I think three hunters plus a pilgrim and a tree is slightly more than a single-figure suggestion is about.
Very nice idea, though ....
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Post by Milo on Oct 10, 2011 11:00:50 GMT
I propose a "Lossoth Lady with Baby"
The mother would be warming the baby in her arms. Some snow on her clothes & hair.
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Post by Halbarad II. on Oct 10, 2011 16:57:48 GMT
I just came back from a internet-free holiday week
in our awesome german capital Berlin
and here comes my part:
I resuggest for the "Battle at Helms Deep" Theme
Huorn at Helms Deep Valley devouring a Half orc/ Uruk-hai
It is a big mystery
what has happenend after the Battle of Helm's Deep
with all the surviving and fleeing half orcs and Uruk Hai of Sarumans Army
as in the morning the Huorns were gone and no body of the enemy was to be found in the valley – only trampled grass and soil
So it could be a nice special fellowship miniature
to depict what could have happened in the night
and do not forget, the Huorns are also strange, but mighty allies of the good guys.
I imagine a figure more treelike, not that personnal as an ent,
but with recognizable head, maybe limbs like arms and legs
like M190 Huorn Killer Tree
in an angry / fierce pose which has somewhere a part of the body of an orc figure
- maybe the head, breast and one arm still outside the "body" of the Huorn
or the body of the orc under his "foot/roots"
Like the imagination of Hobbit's legs and feet still outside the tree-trunk
at the encounter with Old Man Willow
Or the very hideous pose when the Huorn is going to swallow the orc figure
with a wide mouth like a serpent, just legs outside or arms and head...
In any case it should be one figure on one base - not two seperate ones of course
About Huorns
Some creatures are almost like trees.
The only difference is that they can move, and pretty fast too.
There are many of them in Fangorn, and they communicate with the ents.
They are not ents, but huorns. Their worst enemy are the orcs,
due to their heedless axing of trees. They are accounted by many ents as dangerous.
This is proved when Huorn take their well-earned revenge on the orcs.
During the battle at Helm's deep, the Huorns travelled down to get rid of Uruk Hai,
Saruman's orcs. The Company found a strange forest outside Helm's deep after the battle,
which wasn't there before. Gandalf and Legolas were the only ones that understood
that this wasn't wizardry, but a forest of Huorns.
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Post by imisel on Oct 11, 2011 10:25:19 GMT
My suggestion is:
Aragorn finding the sapling of the White Tree upon the slopes of Mindolluin
I imagine him half kneeling in front of the sapling with a face of surprise and veneration, getting knowlegde that finally his destiny is acomplished at last, and having a lot of care not to harm the last descendant of Nimloth.
All fatigue of the tasks along the years, all the sacrifices he had made, now, finally, have all sense.
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Post by gilgaladtolkien on Oct 11, 2011 11:20:07 GMT
My halloween-orc-suggestion is:
The Great Goblin, sitting on his stone
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Post by Gildor on Oct 13, 2011 17:02:17 GMT
mmhh gilgalad, this figurine already exists this is M141...
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Post by barliman on Oct 13, 2011 20:28:37 GMT
Err ... yes, Master Barliman, that's a fine idea for a vignette. Though this is a single-figure suggestion this month, isn't it? What would be the Grey Pilgrim without a tree? I think three hunters plus a pilgrim and a tree is slightly more than a single-figure suggestion is about. Very nice idea, though .... Typical – an Ent with a tree fixation! |
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Post by gilgaladtolkien on Oct 14, 2011 15:10:21 GMT
noooooooooooo, M141 is sitting on a throne, in the book he is sitting on a stone or a little rock
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Post by Milo on Oct 14, 2011 15:32:38 GMT
M141 may be a stone throne !  |
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