Lots of Fun Hobbit Origami Projects

• Make a Hooded Cloak Video
  Make this hooded origami cloak in a dark woodland or olive green colored paper to get the look of a Fellowship of the Ring cape or cloak using paper. Bilbo Baggins, Frodo, Sam, Merry or Pippin would look great in one of these. Why not draw on a leaf
• Tolkien Book Origami Video
  This is a really cool video on YouTube showing how to fold a book with paper. Create your own book and then write The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings on the front cover for a cool paper folded project.
• Make a Sleeveless Jacket Video
  Do you love the waistcoats or dress vests that the characters like Bilbo and Frodo Baggins seem to favor? Well here's a video showing how to create some similar clothing.
• Origami Hobbit Pipe Video
  It unfortunately is not the best video to follow along to but does give you an idea of how you can fold a Gandalf the wizard style pipe from paper. Bilbo likes his pipe too.

Paper that You Can Use - For Your Middle Earth Craft Projects

• Easy to Intermediate Short Sword
  An easy to intermediate sword that you can fold in just 17 steps with excellent step-by-step photos.
• Origami Flip Knife
  A paper folded knife that 'flips' out. Perhaps I can imagine the character Samwise Gamgee using a knife like this for his cooking endeavors while traveling in The Lord of the Rings.

Bilbo Baggins acquires the sword he later names 'Sting' during his adventures in The Hobbit. The sword was made by Elves and had magical properties which meant that the blade glowed blue whenever Orcs were nearby and also it cut through Giant Spiderwebs easily where other normal swords could not. Bilbo later passed this sword down to his younger cousin, Frodo Baggins who used it during his The Lord of the Rings adventures.

You can learn tons of facts about the sword called Sting on my Bilbo Sword Facts Page. This is ideal if you have an interest in Tolkien weaponry.

The sword shown here is one that I made myself from 2 different color papers. It requires folding the same origami sword twice and gluing just the blue blade on top of the other paper sword. You'll find lots more cool things to make below.

Find Loads of Great Swords to Make on my Origami Swords Page

• Super Easy Gandalf Wizard Hat Video
  Here's a very easy video tutorial on how to make a witch hat that would look like Gandalf the Grey's hat if you made it from grey paper.
• Intermediate Wizard Video
  A great video on how you can fold an intermediate wizard like Gandalf. Gandalf's robes would normally be grey or white. In The Hobbit he hasn't been promoted to a white wizard so his robes will be a grey color.
• Intermediate Wizard Hat Video
  Here's the video instructions to create more of a 3D wizard's or Gandalf hat from origami.

Gandalf the wizard (or sorcerer) is one of the main characters in The Hobbit book and movie. I had difficulty finding lots of wizard paper folding projects but I found some witch hat designs where you just need to change the color of the paper to make these into real Gandalf hats and some cloaked figures which really look similar to him.

Gandalf the Grey (or the White as he later becomes) is a very fun theme for your crafting and I would recommend using white, grey or silver colored paper for folding his robes and grey paper for his hat because these are the colors that people most associate specifically with this character.

• An Easy Hobbit Dwarf
  Easy instructions to make a flat dwarf figure from paper.
• Dwarf Axe Video
  Dwarves love their axes and you often see the Dwarves with these weapons which are ideal for short and stout characters. Here's a brilliant video on how to make an axe.
• Advanced Dwarf Video
  Not a tutorial but worth showing anyway is this amazing dwarf folded from paper.
• Kade Chan Fantasy Dwarf Photo
  Photo only of the amazing Eric Joisel dwarf folded by the very talented master, Kade Chan. The base only of this dwarf is published in Eric Joisel - The Magician of Origami book and the Origami Tanteidan 13th convention book

If you really want to be precise, I guess you'll need to make up 13 dwarves because that's how many there are in The Hobbit book by Tolkien and movies which are directed by Peter Jackson. There are very few good dwarf origami or paper folded projects online but I snagged the best to feature here for you. Gimli is the main dwarf in The Lord of the Rings.

If you search the whole of the Internet, you'll be hard pressed to find a single place where someone has actually made an actual character like Bilbo Baggins or Frodo from paper. If you find something that actually looks like one - please do let me know in the comments section just below because I'd love to see it. Instead, this page features some hand-picked craft projects which people would identify or associate with the halfling characters. I hope you've enjoyed reading my wizzles page today, thanks for your visit. With lots of projects that Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, Samwise, Merry and Pippin would be delighted with.