![]() ![]() ![]() Medieval Archery carries a You Finish bow that is for the enthusiastic archer who wants the satisfaction of having finished their bow themselves, as well as a great template that is open to customization. All our bows come in various draw weights and draw lengths to accommodate your personal needs. We cater to a diverse array of tastes in our selection of bows, offering traditional longbows and war bows for the historic shooter, recurve bows and horse bows for mounted archers, fantasy bows that are both functional and beautiful to behold, LARP bows for your gaming needs, youth bows for the young archers out there, accessories to further enhance your archery experience, and even crossbows to own and shoot for defense, fun, and LARPing! Our Fantasy bows include famous Lord of the Rings inspired bows such as Legolas Longbow, Ranger Longbow, Lothlorien Longbow, Elven Longbow, Green Leaf Longbow and the Prologue Bow. Each and every one of our bows are hand-crafted to offer superior design and power with every nocked arrow. He has also helped to popularize archery to modern youth, of whom many has started the hobby because of that.Medieval Archery specializes in medieval longbows and recurve bows. But this is not an error in Tolkien’s universe, since Legolas is supposed to be superhumanly fast, because he’s an elf!īloom has learned his archery well, since his form is in most cases perfect, although many times the bow is held sideways. It is not possible to draw them from a quiver at that rate. Thus can be shot four to five arrows at the same speed rate as Legolas does. It requires the arrows to be held in hands, either in the bow hand or the string hand. It is in fact possible to shoot as fast as he do, but with a different method. In the movies Legolas shoots extremely fast. The back quiver gives me a little extra, when I have to calculate how much I have my infinite arrows left, since I can’t see them.” Tauriel has it, why not you, Legolas? “Why not me, you ask, because I’m too good for that, it doesn’t give me any challenge! It’s too easy to kill orcs anyway, it get’s boring. It is possible to draw arrows from a back quiver if it’s made and positioned right, but it would be much easier and practical to draw them from a hip quiver. It was rarely used, sometimes, somewhere, somewhen. But almost everyone in all the media has it. In the picture G you can see how the bowstring will hit his hanging sleeve, because of this unnatural position.Ħ. Otherwise Bloom’s archery form is excellent (if the bow would stay upwards all the time, but he’s probably been asked to do it sideways). I don’t know what happens in the picture F with his gripping hand, seems like an idiotic photoshop error, but anyway his grip is too far away from the face. This is more Hollywoodian than Mirkwoodian.ĥ. The double arrows are less likely to penetrate an armour, since the halved force. If the target is not wearing any armour, one arrow will kill it, if the aim is right. If one arrow penetrates the armour of the enemy, that’s enough. What are two arrows going to do what one can’t? If my physics calculations aren’t way off, the power of the bow now transfers to two different arrows, rather than putting all the pushing force into one missile, thus decreasing the effect of the arrows by half! That’s actually worse than shooting just one arrow. I wonder why would anyone do that? Since the arrows will hit pretty much the same target. At the picture D our Mirkwoodian shoots two arrows at once. At the same picture Legolas also draws the string with only two fingers, instead of the “standard” mediterranean grip of three fingers. I don’t know about that, but he has the arrow on the wrong side of the bow, and he holds it between his index and middle fingers, which is going to hurt (and possibly effect the missiles flight) when the arrow is released.ģ. At the picture A Legolas has very amateurish grip, as if he weren’t instructed at all, and this would be just some promotional photo before the actual archery training started for the actor. I don’t know who’s fault is this, maybe the directors’.Ģ. I calculated the angles he holds his longbow, and I put the pictures in order from the straight vertical (90º angle from the horizon level) from almost completely horizontal position of the bow (25º angle). Many times, not always, but a lot, as these pictures show. The most frequent issue is that Legolas shoots sideways. And now, Legolas Greenleaf! Everyone’s favourite elf! Teenager-girls’ day dream, Orlando Bloom, knows pretty well how to shoot with a bow, but there are some issues with the character of Legolas.ġ. ![]()
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