Bofur Cosplay

Hello! So yesterday (Sunday 23rd of June 2013) I attended the Sydney Supanova festival!! It was second experience, having also been to the Sunday session in 2011 (click here to see that post)

This post is basically a re-cap on my costume as Bofur the dwarf from The Hobbit movie, and my experience meeting other fans and, most importantly, some incredible stars!!

So first of all I transformed this previously-ugly red tin whistle into a beautiful replica of Bofur's whistle which he plays during the "That's what Bilbo Baggins Hates" sequence. I've noticed, in my close analysis of Bofur's costume over the last few days, that there is this one motif that is repeated over his whole costume - his jacket, his earring, his whistle, and probably more if I looked harder. Once I 'cracked the code' of this motif I was able to replicate it in my costume:

 

I decided the night before that I wanted to make his tooth/claw earring, so I dismantled one of my normal earrings and hooked it through some kitchen foil that I wrapped around a stick I found on the ground that was the right shape which I painted bone colour, then I painted the design onto the top. Easy!

 Here are some shots of me in my finished outfit. Click here for my post on making his hat (it looks better here - I spent some days shortening the ends, and trimming all the weird bubbly bits of the grey wool, and inserting stronger wire to hold up the flaps)

So when I was at the festival, I was lucky enough to meet Aiden Turner (Kili) and Adam Brown (Ori)!!!!!! They were both flying back that night to New Zealand to finish up the last 4 weeks of filming, so we chatted a bit about that. I only got to speak to Aiden for about 30 seconds, but with Adam (his waiting line was substantially smaller - about 4 people versus 300!!) we talked about my outfit, and I showed him my whistle!! He took it and inspected it, and told me that James Nesbitt would be "chuffed" by my outfit!!! Squeeee!! I really really hope he remembers to tell him about it in the call-backs!!!! :DDDDDDD

 

And here are some pictures of me and some other Middle-Earth cosplayers that I found:

 

 Some cosplayers from other fandoms - Merlin and Zelda.

 So I also saw a panel presented by the Knights of Merlin!!!!!! Woah!!!

Me and my friend Lilliani got to get photos with Bradley James (King Arthur!!!) and Tom Hopper (Sir Percival)! So awesome.... besides them, I also caught sight of Jed Brophy (Nori), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia!), Karl Urban (Eomer) and lots more!!!!

 Here are some final comparison photos that I put together!

Totally keen for next year!!!! Hoping for some more Hobbit characters (James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman please!!!) in future years! XD