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more dwarven war masks. some of these I did (or atleast started) before the ones here , so they're a little more rough around the edges.

for the one at the bottom, the nose and cheeks going down to the mustache is all one plate, which can be pulled down to cover the face against dragon fire, or worn open, with the face plate sliding back on the forehead; not a bad idea in theory, but that slit visor is way too robocop for the more archaic feel I was going for, I think a more scuplted face with two distinct eyes would have been better.

for the one on the left I completely abandoned the straight edged, geometric style established by the films. I'm a big fan of that style, and have done most of my dwarf related work in it, but sometimes it's good to break away from a certain way of thinking and try something different, otherwise thinks can get too rigid (literally in this case ) personally I kind of like the rather more antique, authentic, riveted-together feel of it. It's certainly not my most imaginative work to date, but honestly making it not particularly original was something of a conscious choice. The silmarillion is, i think, a far less original work, aesthetically, than the lord of the rings; tolkien doesnt throw weird design curve balls at you like the numenorean karma helmets, and there are no glaring anachronisms like the tobacco smoking hobbits, or extensive looks at 'other' or "non-western" cultures (besides brodda's people, who i think of as more "slavic" as easterlings go, not so distantly separated from the edain, and not nearly so far-afield as the third age easterlings in service to sauron) the silmarillion is overwhelmingly northern/germanic in tone; it feels much more like an authenic saga, like you'd expect to have come from the dark ages (i think it's because it was started when tolkien was so young, and seems to come from much more a place of imitating the authentic epic sagas that he loved, rather than the more original and inventive "world building" he got so into later on) To that end, I often try, when drawing things from the silmarillion, to root them a little more deeply in the look and feel of dark age northern europe, and I wonder if that helmet isnt a little closer to what tolkien (who probably had the sutton hoo helmet atleast partially in mind while writing about the dwarven war masks) was picturing.

Description
more dwarven war masks. some of these I did (or atleast started) before the ones here , so they're a little more rough around the edges.

for the one at the bottom, the nose and cheeks going down to the mustache is all one plate, which can be pulled down to cover the face against dragon fire, or worn open, with the face plate sliding back on the forehead; not a bad idea in theory, but that slit visor is way too robocop for the more archaic feel I was going for, I think a more scuplted face with two distinct eyes would have been better.

for the one on the left I completely abandoned the straight edged, geometric style established by the films. I'm a big fan of that style, and have done most of my dwarf related work in it, but sometimes it's good to break away from a certain way of thinking and try something different, otherwise thinks can get too rigid (literally in this case ) personally I kind of like the rather more antique, authentic, riveted-together feel of it. It's certainly not my most imaginative work to date, but honestly making it not particularly original was something of a conscious choice. The silmarillion is, i think, a far less original work, aesthetically, than the lord of the rings; tolkien doesnt throw weird design curve balls at you like the numenorean karma helmets, and there are no glaring anachronisms like the tobacco smoking hobbits, or extensive looks at 'other' or "non-western" cultures (besides brodda's people, who i think of as more "slavic" as easterlings go, not so distantly separated from the edain, and not nearly so far-afield as the third age easterlings in service to sauron) the silmarillion is overwhelmingly northern/germanic in tone; it feels much more like an authenic saga, like you'd expect to have come from the dark ages (i think it's because it was started when tolkien was so young, and seems to come from much more a place of imitating the authentic epic sagas that he loved, rather than the more original and inventive "world building" he got so into later on) To that end, I often try, when drawing things from the silmarillion, to root them a little more deeply in the look and feel of dark age northern europe, and I wonder if that helmet isnt a little closer to what tolkien (who probably had the sutton hoo helmet atleast partially in mind while writing about the dwarven war masks) was picturing.