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    "text": "It's not all \"Not West=Evil\",\nWETA Lord of the Rings Elves are \"Not West=MYSTIC\", \n\nSo silk clad curved decorated \"Asian, not just Japanese\" weapons, an early concept was wooden (like Heian samurai) armor. Wonder if Sourisak showed his peers a Thai daab (ดาบ)/Burmese dha long hilted sword...",
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          "alt": "ELVEN ARMY Color sketches\nDaniel Falconer\n\"The Elves armor that we see is the second in sa\nattually designed before we designed the Elves armer is the first fiin. The guy on the near right is probably the earliest Elf drawing done. At this stage, really locked down the overall look of the thres fin, so the actor you see was very much nort elaborate, Dungeons and Dragons-style armo The next one extrame right, facing page) was bit of a breakthrough for the fiven design I did this very quick drawing just as a magh study and Peter really responded to the shapes in it. He thought they were very elegant-so this very much ended up being the template that we faliewed to develop the fives armer. Eventually this evolved ista the pictare on the nearer right which became the definitive Elens armur drawing from which we then began building the stift Obviously, as we built it, we discovered certain things were inpractical, and seeded to change I think the helmet and shoulder guards is particular changed a good deat, and we added a leather under tunic as well-hat sther than that, it stayed fairly similac\n\"Although traditional Elven costumes are very loose and flowing, in contrast their ar is enclosing. That's because you can't have arm that is hanging off of you, your armer has to be quite tight-it has to defend you so it can't be getting in the way when you're trying to fight. So, while we designed armee that was stylistically interesting and artistic, it always had to conform back to the humas body and be hoctional. There are certain Sherties taken for the sake of this being a mosle but it kad to have the appearance of being practical, so that's why we pulled everything in light on the body.\n\"Besant the Dres are leaving Middle-earth, we figured that they're saying goodbye. They refer to it as the automa of their years and as a comequence, because they identify so strongly with the forests of Middle-earth, we used a let of autumnal tones in their colering-dried leaves, rods and b…",
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