Elwë Singollo
King of Doriath, Husband of Melian, Father of Lúthien Tinúviel
without accessories
with crown only
with cloak only
with crown and cloak
Although there are almost a dozen Sims waiting to be completed on my drawing boards, Elwë decided he wanted to be next. I suppose the reason is fairly obvious: I had been using a "fast and dirty" version of the character to stand in as Melian's spouse in my Sim neighborhood, cobbled together from bits and pieces I had lying about. That version was utterly inadequate for one the eldest of the Elves and the Lord of the Teleri in Middle-earth, so it was high time I got around to giving him a Sim truly of his own that didn't look dreadful standing beside the Melian I had already completed. Of all the Elves of the First Age, Elwë is one of the few that Tolkien described in some detail. He was the tallest of all the Eldar, had silver hair and grey eyes, and his surname -- Singollo in Quenya, Thingol in Sindarin -- meant "grey cloak" or "grey mantle," presumably because of his habits of dress.
While there really isn't much a mesh-maker can do to literally make one adult Sim noticeably taller than another (short of giving them a hat or helmet or such that will add height without messing up the motion of the Sim), I felt I could manage the rest of the details, and wanted to give Elwë a "grey mantle" that would be distinctive. I believe I managed to achieve this with the split front and back and the over the shoulders collar. However, his hair is another "stay-put" mesh, and it has the usual problem of such things, that being the matter of stuck-down long hair poking through accessories like cloaks or capes. Fortuantely, only the outer braids of his hair do so; those in the middle are visible through the split in the cloak, and don't misbehave too badly. And because all of the tacked-down parts of his hair are behind his shoulders, the thumbnail distortion appears as a lifting-up of the longer portions. His face is not at all obscured.
