125 - Bofur! (tutorial)
Mae govannen, mellon nín! I'm back with another painted dwarf from Thorin Oakenshield's Company! This time I will present Bofur, a miniature from the Escape from Goblin Town box set. As usual with the Middle-Earth minis, the colours I used are very "earthy". Mostly browns for this one. Who is Bofur? Assembled and unprimed miniature of Bofur. "Bofur's parentage is unknown; the only familial connections mentioned are that Bombur is his brother and Bifur is his cousin. He was not of Durin's line although he was descended from Dwarves of Moria. His birth year is also unknown. However, from Bilbo Baggins' account of the quest to Erebor it is known that the brothers Fíli and Kíli were the youngest of the thirteen "by some fifty years" and that after Thorin had been captured, Balin was "the eldest left". Since Fíli was born in T.A. 2859 and Balin was born in 2763, this would put Bofur's birth between 2809 and 2763, and he would have...