#belladonna took

The Good News: My self-isolation partnered with the national lock-down has given me the free time to sit and draw:)

The Bad News: Aside from no longer going to class, Nothing else about my life has really changed. My normal, day-to-day routine is apparently definable as “quarantine”. Hmm. 

Anyway, I was re-reading the Sansûkh by determamfidd, and it struck me how few women are actually found in the canonical stories. It was ahead of it’s time, make no mistake, but there are only one or two named women from each race. In fact, only three female hobbits are ever named, and none of them interact with the story in any meaningful way: Rosie Cotton, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, and Belladonna Baggins (nee Took).

I got inspired to try designing a character instead of redesigning them, so here we have Bella. All we know, really, is that she was The Old Took’s youngest (and favorite) daughter, and that she was Bilbo’s mother. She was well-known to Gandalf, whom she accompanied on many a distasteful adventure. 

I based her face off of Sonia Forbes-Adam, James Nesbitt’s wife, as she played her for a cut scene. The clothing, and Hobbit clothing in general, is inspired by 1700′s higher and lower middle-class English fashion. In these images, she is wearing: her wedding dress, her normal clothes, and her adventuring clothes:)

I hope to do more characters, specifically women, in the future. Stay safe everyone!

Cover for the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s “Belladonna Took” movie.

Cover for the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s “Belladonna Took” movie.

Page one of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page two of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page three of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page four of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.) 

Page five of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page six of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page seven of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page eight of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Page nine of the comic book adaptation of Peter Jackson’s prequel to “The Hobbit.”  (All about the mother of Bilbo Baggins: Belladonna Took.)

Ever wonder how an adventurous Took wound up married to a Baggins?  Here’s how the parents of a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins met.

endillos:

@arwenindomiel’s tolkien south asian week day 6 | hobbits + motifs

BELLADONNATOOK

mother of bilbo baggins

endillos:

@arwenindomiel’s tolkien south asian week day 6 | hobbits + motifs

BELLADONNATOOK

mother of bilbo baggins