Hobbit socks!
Link Flickr user SueJG whipped up these fantastic Hobbit socks, based on the runic cover design of the classic hardcover. (via Making Light)
Link Flickr user SueJG whipped up these fantastic Hobbit socks, based on the runic cover design of the classic hardcover. (via Making Light)
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Normally, I'm against these little "crafty" projects, but this is nice. It captures both the spirit of that kind of sock and the book.
Good job, SueJG!
A bit small for hobbity feet.
They're nice, I don't want to hate on the maker, but Hobbits and socks mesh together as well as Jeffrey Dahmer and vegetarian cookbooks.
Those are cute and it's obvious that a lot of thought went into the design. Kudos to the maker!
Lovely. Wouldn't wear them myself, but I wouldn't blame anyone who did.
Estate of J.R.R. Tolkien! Alert! Copyright infringement! She better not even think about selling those...
Geez, folks! They're fantastic! As a knitter, I know these took lots of effort. I'd like the pattern! Great job, Sue.
"Hobbits and socks mesh together as well as Jeffrey Dahmer and vegetarian cookbooks."
Way to shoot down someone's creativity. I suspect that Sue wasn't trying to make socks FOR hobbits (or sell them, either), just expressing her love of Tolkien's story. I side with Eileen: those socks took a lot of work, and Sue deserves lots more praise - not criticism and copyright infringement concerns.
Kudos, Sue!
"They're nice, I don't want to hate on the maker, but Hobbits and socks mesh together as well as Jeffrey Dahmer and vegetarian cookbooks."
I would think that adds to the amusement/charm factor.
it says: " hobbit / or / there / and / back / again "
"there and back again" -- so, SO perfect for a pair of socks! and hey, maybe hobbity toes get chilly in wintery climes. who's to say?
Want. But you should have waited until tomorrow to post this. A fanboy like you must know what March 25th is.
I guess using the title of the book might cause some legal troubles, but it seems like a bit of free advertising to me.
I love the socks because they took me back to my wasted youth for a moment. The runes used in the writing are the Norse Futhark, or one of the related scripts, which I guess most fans of Tolkien already know. Unfortunately I didn't know when I was a lad, and deciphered them myself. However it wasn't from Tolkien, it was from Ozzy Osbourne's Speak of the Devil album, which used a related runic script, the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. When I realized that one of the messages on the album contained the text "Ozzy Osbourne", I used the method described in Poe's "The Gold Bug" and my trusty VIC-20 computer to decipher the rest. On the inside of the album sleeve was a touching tribute to Randy Rhoads. (Yes, I'm old AND a nerd.) Too bad I hadn't read Tolkien first! :)
@1: Curious to know, Moon, what precisely are your feelings about "crafty" projects?
When I read that headline, I was picturing socks that would look like hairy hobbit feet! But the ones above are lovely, I can see the work that went into them.
"Crafty" projects are USUALLY an excuse for somebody with no talent in art to try to do art. And then cover up by saying "It's just craft"
This one doesn't fall into that category. The knitted bunny toilet paper roll covers does.
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@16: Ah, yeah. I think you don't hate craft. I think you hate poorly conceived and poorly executed craft, of which this sock is not an example.
I've met a lot of people with no talent in art try to do art, and then cover up by saying, "It's (just) art." I'm still pretty open about art though.
(Ok, I hate most postmodernist stuff.)
These are awesome! And I can't even imagine the amount of thinking and work that went into these (I'm not a knitter, so ordinary socks are amazing). For the people with the lukewarm responses to the socks, I once told someone that if anybody ever knitted him socks (socks can be very difficult I hear) then that person really loves you. I would be proud to wear these! Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
Great socks! I wish I had the patience for knitting.
For the naysayers:
1) Hobbits did on occasion wear socks and/or boots. Usually in very cold weather. Tolkien said so.
2) Hobbits do NOT have big feet. That's a mistake first perpetrated by Ralph Bakshi, then continued by Peter Jackson. Hobbits had small feet which left small footprints, when they left any trace of their passing at all. Again, according to Tolkien, so deal with it.