The Witch-King of Angmar Costume
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
This is a costume I put together back in 2004/2005 during my senior year in high school. I was doing a practicum at an art studio called Prop Art Studio in downtown Detroit. The company specialized in sculpting large items out of Styrofoam for all sorts of things, including parade floats, sporting events, and business icons. I decided to take this wonderful opportunity to create something I would not have been able to do elsewhere, so I began putting together blueprints of how I was going to sculpt the helmet of the Witch-King from Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The idea came to me because for previous years on Halloween I had gone as a Ringwraith and had already created a set of gauntlets for this. The Witch-King is the strongest of the Nine Ringwraiths and in the 3rd movie stands out from the rest with his evil helmet and distinctive weapons. So, for about 3 months I worked on the helmet while also planning out the flail. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it, and in the end, I had made a cool costume for homework!
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
This is a costume I put together back in 2004/2005 during my senior year in high school. I was doing a practicum at an art studio called Prop Art Studio in downtown Detroit. The company specialized in sculpting large items out of Styrofoam for all sorts of things, including parade floats, sporting events, and business icons. I decided to take this wonderful opportunity to create something I would not have been able to do elsewhere, so I began putting together blueprints of how I was going to sculpt the helmet of the Witch-King from Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
The idea came to me because for previous years on Halloween I had gone as a Ringwraith and had already created a set of gauntlets for this. The Witch-King is the strongest of the Nine Ringwraiths and in the 3rd movie stands out from the rest with his evil helmet and distinctive weapons. So, for about 3 months I worked on the helmet while also planning out the flail. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it, and in the end, I had made a cool costume for homework!