Legendarium Dolls

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Pip! / they/them / 30s / eating sand in Tolkien’s sandbox

Got back into jrrt’s works a few years ago and something about it broke down creative blocks that have been plaguing me for ages!! I write fic, occasionally draw, and started making ball-jointed dolls in early 2026 😎

I’ve been fascinated by BJDs for forever, but their price-point has always been prohibitive. Same goes for 3D printing, but a few FDM/FFF patent expirations later, and suddenly owning a 3D printer became feasible— so I got a toy that prints out more toys! This coincided with my recent acquisition of a bunch of beautiful blorbwës, and the rest is (ongoing) history.

I’ll try to keep it PG-13 around here, but I do need to break out the occasional swears to say things like “fuck off nazis & terfs”, as the aforementioned have no place here ♡

Find me on Ao3 and Discord as cloudbower, or occasionally as u/guildensternum on custom doll reddit

Maybe I will put a directory here once I have posts to link to lol

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Moving in a few days & Dolldhros is too tall for all my bags -_-

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Made him some hose last night from one of those knee highs you get in a little capsule at the shoe store lol. At least he has pants now kinda?? I'll paint them to make them opaque later.

I also cut his wig and it's not even, but it looks ok for now. The curls are very forgiving. Moving stuff this weekend, but hope to use the trimmings to make him a new shorter wig soon.

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A partial look at the worst haircut anyone has ever given a wig OTL. This was my first wig and every step was a struggle tbh. Process & chatter under the cut

Made wefts from yarn (very limited amount acquired from thrift store, problem 1) (problem 2: tons of waste, which I saved at least some of for later) . Trying to make the actual weft tracks was tough, started with uv resin, which was a terrible idea, made them pretty thick, eventually used modge podge. Totally haphazard placement. The part was the hardest, pic doesn't show how sparse/messy it is.

So it was a bit of a mess, but might have been temporarily passable if not for..... the haircut.

Before: uncut/unstyled Karen hair lol:

Then I watched like 3 wolf cut tutorials on yt and decided I was ready. Yes it was 10:30ish pm, why do you ask -_- . Below is the very best I could possibly arrange/photograph it to hide the horrible awful chop

Not......... good. Super uneven, WAY asymmetrical, blunt cuts everywhere, too short up top. I now understand the emo and scene hairstyles of the early-mid aughts: bad diy haircut brined in ambient anime and Tim Burton. But at least their hair grew back u_u

This was a very humbling lesson and I have slowed my roll considerably. Maedhros's long flowing wig isn't quite the right size and also very heavy, so I'm going to trim off 2 or so inches (nothing fancy!! Just a straight cut!!!! I learned my lesson trying to cut layers) and try to make a new wig from the trimmings.

Meantime, Maedhros with the Bad Hair sports a little veil to hide the worst of my butchering ;u;

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A partial look at the worst haircut anyone has ever given a wig OTL. This was my first wig and every step was a struggle tbh. Process & chatter under the cut

Made wefts from yarn (very limited amount acquired from thrift store, problem 1) (problem 2: tons of waste, which I saved at least some of for later) . Trying to make the actual weft tracks was tough, started with uv resin, which was a terrible idea, made them pretty thick, eventually used modge podge. Totally haphazard placement. The part was the hardest, pic doesn't show how sparse/messy it is.

So it was a bit of a mess, but might have been temporarily passable if not for..... the haircut.

Before: uncut/unstyled Karen hair lol:

Then I watched like 3 wolf cut tutorials on yt and decided I was ready. Yes it was 10:30ish pm, why do you ask -_- . Below is the very best I could possibly arrange/photograph it to hide the horrible awful chop

Not......... good. Super uneven, WAY asymmetrical, blunt cuts everywhere, too short up top. I now understand the emo and scene hairstyles of the early-mid aughts: bad diy haircut brined in ambient anime and Tim Burton. But at least their hair grew back u_u

This was a very humbling lesson and I have slowed my roll considerably. Maedhros's long flowing wig isn't quite the right size and also very heavy, so I'm going to trim off 2 or so inches (nothing fancy!! Just a straight cut!!!! I learned my lesson trying to cut layers) and try to make a new wig from the trimmings.

Meantime, Maedhros with the Bad Hair sports a little veil to hide the worst of my butchering ;u;

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1st pic should have been included in his face up progress pic oops, but I also wanted to post about his eyebrow debacle other than the denting I gave him while trying to curl his lashes rifp . Maybe debacle is a strong word, I thought his expression was too delicate so I tried thickening his eyebrows along the existing lines. This just made them pointy and even less the right expression, so I wiped them off and he's back to what he had before ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ might need to take more off if I actually want to change his expression so I'll leave it as-is for now

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Progress of Dolldhros's face up! Camlux's undertone tutorial is incredible and I credit it with bringing this face up to a new level ;u;

This is my first full face up!!!!! I've got a lot to learn but I'm pretty proud of how it came out ;u;

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Maedhros BJD WIP! PLA, UV resin, spray paint, pastels, watercolor pencils, and more MSC than I’d care to admit. I’ve got a few dolls in progress, but this is the first one I’ve finished to this degree + my first full face up!! More to come soon.

Progress pics & chatter under the cut~

Thanks for taking a look! Here’s Baldhros for your trouble lol.

To do: I’m not totally happy with his expression, I’m sure I’ll add more freckles, I need to cap his arm*, and I’ve got plans to give him a large brand (courtesy of his time in Angband) and a tattoo (his attempt to obscure this brand). Generally speaking, I’d like to put more detail into his body, but I’d rather give him clothes first, which is gonna be a whole thing…

*His right arm! A few discord friends pointed out that joint amputations generally heal better than a cut through a bone. I’ve depicted him here as having had a second amputation at the elbow after Fingon’s initial (understandable!) rush-job. The cap for his arm is a whole saga for another post.

Here’s some early assembly tests (banana for scale lol)

I used njshine’s “Edward” sculpt for his body and used the STL from 凉白开 on Makerworld as a base for his face, which I customized on Blender (this is an INCREDIBLE sculpt, especially a free one???) The base for the eyes is from this set by CautionCat. The hand is from this set by Sirihitti.

The wig is just one I got off the Bezos Bazaar (not an affiliate link i prommy). I was looking for hair extensions and this was actually a little cheaper! I also tried making my own from yarn and it turned out pretty decent until I gave it the worst haircut anyone has every given anything RIFP, so he’s stuck with these flowing locks until I get some more practice.

Finally, here’s Dolldhros with some baby peredhil WIPs (from 凉白开 again + I pointed their ears in Blender) for your time~~