#love the helms and the mix of lamellar and chainmail armour

My first Tumblr post!

Let's start here by talking about a concept I've been kind of in love since like 2019-ish, and it's representing the Gondorians from Lord of the Rings as Byzantines, be it regarding clothing or equipment. In general, I like to combine gear from various periods of byzantine military, but mainly from the Macedonians and Komnenian dynasties. I also like to add some non-byzantine pieces, if it fits, like the mytrhil helmet of the Citadel Guard, which is inspired in a certain type of Hellenistic helmet.

So, to sumarize, what I'm sharing here are:

1- A Citadel Guard of Minas Tirith

2- Two heavy infantrymen from the city or one of the big fiefdoms of Gondor

3- A knight of Minas Tirith, clad like a cataphract

#gondor #wooo byzantine gondorian soldiers!#i imagine them more as very battered looking comitatenses #but the skoutatoi look fits very nicely as well #love the helms and the mix of lamellar and chainmail armour #also gondorian kataphractoi...#yes i love it