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It was the persistence of Sauron’s power into the Third Age that made the Valar, a higher order of spirits analogous to archangels, wish to send emissaries to aid and inspire the Free Peoples of Arda (Earth) who resisted evil. Gandalf, like all the five wizards of Middle-earth, was a Maia, an angelic spirit of the same order as Sauron. The LED will eventually run out, so I just used Elmer's glue or tape to gently secure the base of the LED to the top of the dowel so that I can still remove it to change the battery.Runtime 178 minutes Who Is Gandalf in 'The Lord of the Rings'? Since the tape is clear, and I wanted to make it a little less obvious that there was an LED inside, I 'frosted' the tape with a watered down mixture of silver and white craft paint. Make sure that you can still remove the LED from the tape, though! After I finished making the 'crystal' covering, I tried it on the LED and put the whole thing at the top of the staff, then trimmed the bottom edge so that it fit better with the branches' placement around the top of the dowel. By layering more and more tiny strips of tape, I managed to approximate the faceted look of the crystal. Then I cut several slits in the tape and sort of folded those sections together to make the individual spikes. I began by encircling the LED with a strip of tape, sticky side out. To get the jagged crystal look cheaply, I used clear packing tape to 'build' a crystal over the light so that it looked more or less like the one on Gandalf's staff. I purchased these submersible LED lights from the florist section of Michael's. After a little bit of time for it to dry, I wiped off the excess watery paint with a paper towel this leaves the darker color in the grooves where dirt would normally accumulate, and leaves the lighter brown at the high points where constant handling would naturally polish the 'wood.' Step 5: Add a Glossy Finish But if you're wondering, my second coat was a mixture of orange, green, red, black, and brown.Īfter the paint dries, it's time to add the weathering! I mixed up a little bit of black paint with some water and painted it on, making sure to get into all the grooves and divots of the branches. I don't think the second coat really adds a whole lot, though, so for sake of simplicity I only included those two colors in my initial materials list. I used a base of Raw Sienna to cover up the masking tape and paper, then mixed up another, darker brown to add some more depth. I just used the cheap acrylic craft paint that I already had it's about $0.39 a bottle at Michael's or Jo-Ann's during sales, both Americana and Folk Art brands worked just fine for me. Once I was pleased with the arrangement of the branches on the dowel, I painted it. Step 3: Add Some Texture to the Rest of the Staff The light will eventually rest on the top of the dowel, so don't cover that with the twists. Eventually, after adding enough twists, it will be too difficult to secure them at the top with masking tape, so you will need to use a hot glue gun to stick the tops down.

I also added a big crumpled up bunch of paper to one side to get the look of the large knot. To keep it from looking too uniform, I made sure to vary the direction and width of the twists I used. I just looked at a picture of his staff and tried to approximate the look with my twists. The rest of the top of the staff is just a big mass of branches twisting up and making a rather large clump. I took the two largest twists and taped the bases to the dowel, twisted it up and around, then used more tape and paper to prop the branches out to the side. Gandalf's staff has two larger branches twisted together and coming out to the side, so I started there. Prepare a bunch of varying lengths of masking tape and start heating up the hot glue gun.

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