When the costumers for The Hobbit needed yarn, they turned to fiber artist and native New Zealander Mary Hall, according to an article in New Zealand’s Marlborough Express. Mary, owner of Hallblacks Woolery, is a big fan of the films and admitted she would “get a bit of a buzz” from seeing her wool onscreen. She spoke to the Marlborough Express about her experiences working on The Hobbit:
“The costumes required about four kilograms of wool each,” she said. “We’ve done a lot for them, then the soft furnishings came, then the set designers, then the art department. It’s been non-stop.”
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Author: Oloriel
From time out of mind, Oloriel has been typing away in her little apartment, cats at her feet, hoping to reach out to other fantasy lovers by way of folkandfairy.com. Her discovery of Tolkien as a young adult awakened her long-dormant love of the otherworldly, and now she sees magic everywhere.
Oloriel has a degree in writing, which she put to work during a three-year stint in vanity publishing – an experience not unlike purgatory and very much like having to read 20 bad books each week – which she prefers not to talk about. To renew herself, she knits, naps, reads, prays, writes, walks in the woods, and eats too many cookies.
