Showing posts with label Easterlings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easterlings. Show all posts

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

An Easterling Parade

The Easterlings. Mortal men in the service of the Dark Lord Sauron, summoned from the evil kingdoms of the ... I'm going to guess 'the East'.

You might remember them from such memorable scenes as: the bit where Frodo and Sam disguise themselves as a rock.

Easterling swordsmen and halberdiers
"It was the Black Gate of Mordor! It was a pivotal point in the story!"

But the costume designer's work was not in vain, and from that humble beginning sprouted a subset kingdom of LotR miniatures. Fairly nice ones too, so when I was looking for halberdier models that didn't look ... well, bloody ridiculous (seriously, a barefoot Empire soldier?), I went back to the LotR range.

Easterling halberdiers
"Take it easy, Barry, it's just a rock. A rock with two sets of hobbit footprints leading up to it."