#tolkienreadalong bingo

“Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you.”-Bard the Bowman

(This craft was so much fun. First time spray painting and first time cutting feathers.)

Six runes… would they too become a word she’d hate forever? No. She refused to accept it. Of course the quest was hopeless, but she would not lose another man she loved. She had big plans for their future, for their son, and they all depended on that one word.
He had given her the badly crafted bracelet just before walking out the door. Probably a last minute project. It was not like him to give her presents and she told him so in a mocking voice (hoping it would lighten up the mood).
“It’s not a present. It’s a promise!” He had said. And now there she was, staring at the word.
“What does it say, mother?” Death, she thought. Future, she hoped. But that was not what was engraved onto the beads. It was just the name of a place, just a mountain like so many others, and yet it meant so much more. Maybe one day it would even mean happiness. For now it just spelled “Erebor”.

(This is part 2 of a story I started long ago)

Beorn - bookmark

“Standing near was a huge man with a thick black beard and hair, and great bare arms and legs with knotted muscles. He was clothed in a tunic of wool down to his knees, and was leaning on a large axe.”

This is my Beorn and I’ll fight you over him.

Bag End Seed Cake

I used this recipe by Esgaroth to make lovely hobbit seed cakes! The only change I made was replacing the buttermilk with lactose free cream and adding a cup of orange juice to keep it moist.

After the big cake was ready, I used a cup to cut little round cakes and piled them up, you know, in case some guests drop by for an unexpected party.

The White Tree of Gondor

(One of the first things I did for the LOTR read-along was design my own white tree and stich it to a t-shirt. Also, I am so bad at drawing, sorry guys.)

Here is my blacked out bingo card for The Hobbit readalong!

Week 1 - An Unexpected Party (Seedcake / Kümmelkuchen)

Week 2 -Riddles in the Dark (riddle)

Week 3 - Beorn (book mark)

Week 4 - The Elvenking (Elfchen aka eleven-word-poem)

Week 5 - The Lonely Mountain (Erebor wrist band and ficlet)

Week 6 - Bard (the black arrow)

Week 7 - The aftermath (Food Cheer Song wall decoration for a merrier world)

FREE - Thorin’s Map in a DIY frame

Other Works - Lord of The Rings (The One Ringprop)

It has been super fun! Thanks all for reading along.

Ash nazg

This is the One Ring. Well at least it’s the one my kid made from a plain ring and a chain she had laying around. I think it turned out pretty cool so I photographed it back in February.

I’m turning this in to fill the bingo card prompt “Other Works“ (Lord of the Rings).

This is the kind of thing I imagine Bilbo having made and haging over the mantle piece once he is back home. (I’m not good with images, so forgive my total lack of knowledge and skill).

I made a modern version of itfor my mantle piece.

Thorin’s parting words are probably my favourite quote of all The Hobbit. I try to live by these words and value food, cheer and song above, not only heaps of gold, but pretty much all else. I believe, this way to be contributing to a merrier world.

(This is my entry for “the aftermath” bingo card prompt.)

Thorin’s map (German version) - for the FREE space on the bingo card

For this DIY project I made a copy of the map and aged it with tea bags. Then I bought a wooden crate that had the right size, took it apart, painted it, and used it as a frame.