Style of Middle-earth

"Few remember them...yet still some go wandering, sons of forgotten kings walking in loneliness, guarding from evil things folks that are heedless"  To be honest, sadly, my inspiration for outfits has been dwindling. I have outfits sitting in my vault that I cannot use, even though they are all planned out and dyed, because I simply do not have shared wardrobe yet. But that is not the topic at hand. I am growing near the end of my time in Moria, and that is a glorious sight. A couple of weeks ago, I spent some time in the section of Moria known as the Flaming Deeps, and the fire shooting out of the ground seemed like a very good area to style a fiery outfit after. Ranger's masks are one of those iconic cosmetic pieces that I think everyone should have, even if they are only makeshift ranger's masks. The cloak, "Flames of the Deep", is a very staple, nice and fun cloak to have in your vault. Even though the cloak and the hauberk really do go toge...

  “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”    I have been recently spending more time than I should in the auction hall spending all the gold that I worked so hard to save. I had decided I wanted to make my next outfit featuring another gorgeous gown, but I was having such a hard time finding a cloak. Both Lissamay and I spent quite a while on different occasions looking for capes, and I finally came across a cloak I had never seen before. The cloak is beautifully tiered in the back, and is shades of pink and purple, with little bits of yellow laced throughout. Despite the fact that this cosmetic blog has only been up and running for a little while, I have quickly learned how hard it can be to work with dresses. They are an incredible and gorgeous piece, but can be an awkward piece to work with and work around. I have found that a simple headpiece, and maybe ...

“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”  Angmar is a sad, depressing, dark area of Middle-earth. Evil has leaked out from Carn Dum, and has begun to spill into the surrounding lands as well, as the Witch King of Angmar continues his evil. I used to hate to head into Angmar for exactly the reason of how evil an area of Middle-earth is was, but now I have discovered that I actually like it more than I used to. This outfit could alternatively be named "Angmar", because Angmar is the main inspiration for this outfit. The brown dyes signify the dark, bleak, and desolate colors and landscape, and the bit of red in the outfit (the cape) represents the evil of Carn Dum. I was looking for a good breastplate for this outfit and I realized the perfect one was sitting right under my...

"Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”    I would like to start off this post by apologizing for not posting recently. I don't have any excuse, other than the fact that I have had no cosmetic inspiration whatsoever. I have also found that due to the fact that I am not level cap, and I have not bought any quest packs, it is becoming harder and harder to find cosmetics with some degree of variety. But, now I'm back. In the past few weeks, I have been spending hours upon hours doing skirmish after skirmish, both for the sake of the xp that you get, and the incredible cosmetics you can buy with marks and medallions.  The inspiration I had for this outfit was very little - I had been saving up marks to purchase the full Rift-defender's set for my minstrel alt, and I liked the way it complimented a re...

"Fealty with love, valor with honor, oath-breaking with vengeance."  For me, pairing helmets with an outfit has always been hard. I absolutely adore the hairstyle that Makaia sports, and even when my shield-maiden guardian is in battle, I like to think of her as a tiara-wearing warrior. But through it all, there has been one helmet caught my eye, and kept my attention: the Ceremonial Helm of the Gloom-bane. The incredible intricacy of it has made it the one helmet that Makaia will now always wear in battle. Despite the fact that the helm is my favorite part of this outfit, the main inspiration for the whole set was the breastplate. In December, I did quite a lot of skirmishes, acquired all too many marks and medallions, and started to go through the cosmetics available at the skirmish camp. I came across the breastplate, and picked up two other pieces from the set that I liked as well: the gauntlets and boots.  The shoulder guards were quite a spontaneous p...

  “O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell i n this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas.”  My little elf main is proudly an elf, hailing from the woodland realm of Mirkwood. In the last week or so, I made up my mind to finally finish Volume I, and I did! During that process, I picked up some lovely cosmetic pieces from quest rewards, and I knew when I got this cloak that it might work very well as a cosmetic piece. Even though it might look silly (it has a rabbit on the back of it, for goodness sake!), it screamed "elf!". Thus I made a green, elf like cosmetic outfit that differs greatly from the last "elf" cosmetic outfit I posted, the Colors of Spring , that reminded me a bit of Tauriel from the new Hobbit film (despite the fact she isn't a Tolkien character). The green main color, plus the bits of brown leather, seemed like something a huntress would wear, though sadly, my highest level hunter is level 13 and ...

 To be honest, it has taken me a little bit of time to build up the courage to post this. When I first started my cosmetic blog, my blog was named something else, and I uploaded this outfit actually as the first outfit. This is the first cosmetic outfit I ever designed, and let's just say that it was incredibly weird to re-equip this outfit after wearing different ones for so long. I feel like most of my outfits on here are very, very simple, and I promise I will be posting a more intricate outfit next week! When I first began designing cosmetic outfits, I literally went as simplistic as possible. At the time, I didn't know how to "try on" other pieces other than those from the outfitter, and so I spent a lot of time at the Bree-town outfitter and occasionally would do some skirms to grab some marks so then I could go to the skirmish camp. I picked up a simplistic hauberk at the outfitter, and the cape.. well.. The cape is one avaliable at the skirmish cam...