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[Mathijs]

http://imgur.com/a/VszAZ/all

 

Pretty exhaustive, I must say.

 

I thought I'd seen just about every reference image over the years, but there's a lot of stuff in here that I don't remember seeing before, or at least not in this resolution.

 

Plus, it's nice to have it all in one single album. 

 

Notable features:

• The Witch-king's initial armor design in full view
• Mounted Second Age Númenorean!
• Great Uruk scout references
• Great Orc references
• Fantastic Isildur stuff
• Théoden's armor
• Haradrim armor
• Unused concepts for Elven helmets
• Unused concepts for Olog-hai
• Great detail on all special Hobbit costumes
• Faramir's armor

[ThrandyBanned]

I love WK's abandoned armor.It's still in Return Of The King game(WHICH I WON'T RIP)

[NewErr]

Thank you Math.

About WK, personally I think the initial design would made more sense lore-wise but the movie one is more eye-candy.

Edited by NewErr, 02 November 2015 - 11:57 AM.

[Irenë Hawnetyne]

Wow, this is good. Interesting, very Eastern-looking WK design.

[Pasidon]

Nerd.

[Mathijs]

I prefer the term afficionado.

[ThrandyBanned]

Can someone link me those concepts for elven helmets?I have problems entering imgur



EDIT:
Found them!They look awesome!
My favorite is this one http://i.imgur.com/mKfFnsq.jpg

Edited by Thrandy, 03 November 2015 - 09:20 AM.

[Lauri]

I love seeing unused concept art, just to see what direction things might've gone. I've seen a lot of these on the DVD extras though, but can't recall those elven helmets.

[NewErr]

Imo, many of those helmets feel "too fantastic" and so unrealistic, I'm very impressed with the final result, if we are to think they started from those.

[ThrandyBanned]

Yeah those helmets look similar to Warhammer Wood elves' helmets.
Which gives me an idea to make a mod of Warhammer

[Araval]

Many thanks for posting these!

Do I understand correctly that these are all images from the extended edition bonus material galleries?

[Mathijs]

Not all, I think. Some of them I've never seen on the EE Appendices.