Behind the Beards [Picture Thread]

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Fri May 15, 2020 10:08 pm

Come and show me ya faces ya hairy lot!

General common sense please - nothing rude, or without consent etc.

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Fri May 15, 2020 10:11 pm

Insert comments here about how I still look the same....

Oro · Fri May 15, 2020 10:14 pm

One of me a week or two back, with no barbers open my hair is longer than its been in years.

Nerwen. Love the glasses! Looking great as always!

Burnt Toast · Sat May 16, 2020 3:15 pm

Heyo! There's a familiar face. Thanks for saving me when I missed my flight, Nerwen. What an adventure!

Solid glasses all around, everyone!

Well, a long while ago, my hair used to be like two feet long and blonde-- but here it is, also longer than it has been in months. Now I get to wake up to fun hair surprises every day. Here's my cat photobombing me like a champion.

Okay, I hope I figured out this image thing right- here goes:

EDIT 1: also I realize I am not a dwarf. But I have dreams of growing a beard one day so I was drawn to this thread. Maybe hanging out here will help coax the beard out...

Reikon Suchi-ru · Sat May 16, 2020 3:42 pm

I'm not a Dwarf, but I hope my RL beard qualifies me to be posting in here! I've come a long way since age 14...though I had a beard back then too XD. This was taken in Portland, Maine on an East Coast road trip with my now-fiancee!

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sat May 16, 2020 3:54 pm

Aspirational beards are very welcome!

Reikon Suchi-ru · Sat May 16, 2020 4:13 pm

@Queen Nerwen I seem to remember some photos posted on the Original Plaza of you in a (photoshopped) beard. Those were pretty choice!

Do you still have any kicking around?

Oro · Sat May 16, 2020 4:14 pm

@Reikon Suchi-ru Love the beard! And you are looking mighty handsome!

@Mor Toast Absolutely love seeing you pop in! And good luck with the beard, hanging around us dwarves should help!

Winddancer · Sat May 16, 2020 4:32 pm

Was a beardless dwarf once! Hope that counts, if not and you have a issue, come to the Pits and we can have it out there.. :P

Me and Naith, Naith is hiding, cause well he is and I dont know if he wants his pic up, so respecting that lol. This is obviously my alter ego and one of the rare times I went out in the sun.

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sat May 16, 2020 4:46 pm

@Reikon Suchi-ru feel free to make a new one haha

Reikon Suchi-ru · Sat May 16, 2020 4:53 pm

@Queen Nerwen Ask and ye shall receive!

Look how stately you look!

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sat May 16, 2020 5:00 pm

HAHAHAHa you've made my day

Nessila · Sat May 16, 2020 5:04 pm

looks like maggots on your face. How minion of you. You must be in the wrong kingdom @Queen Nerwen who's not my queen.

Oro · Sat May 16, 2020 5:30 pm

Hahaha that beard looks amazing on your Queen!

Nessila your pink has brought back soo many memories I never thought of before today.

Moriel · Sat May 16, 2020 5:32 pm

Yay picture threads!! I always post too many pics, bear with me

All the pictures involving others are already public, so I'm not censoring them.

Here are some of my favorite photos from recent ren faires. Surprise surprise, they involve weapons/fighting. Last season I switched from the group I'd been with for 9 years (Green Court, the bad guys) to the Pirates, hence the costume change between some of the photos :smiley8:

Right before I uppercutted him with my shield, good times

Caught me monologuing

I trained for months for this moment and it was so worth it. I had to sling him over my shoulders, step up about five inches, walk across the stage, step down again, and walk backstage. He weighed about 80lbs more than me at the time

All I have ever wanted from my hair

This partner had serious hops

This is the absolute worst angle to sell this punch from but I tried to make up for it with my face. I have a whole album of this reaction from various days

And one of my absolute favorite stills from a show I've been in fairly recently- an infamous Noël Coward "tea party" scene, when I was playing Amanda in Private Lives

A couple of BTS shots from a recent opera- I'm Master Electrician for this company and my friend the lighting designer likes to take pics during load ins :smiley8:

On course at the Javelina Jundred 100M Ultramarathon last October! I didn't finish this time, but next time... *eyes October speculatively*

Norin Deathfoot · Sat May 16, 2020 6:48 pm

Hello dwarfies!

I became a penguin for a bit.

@Queen Nerwen , you still look the same

Oro · Sat May 16, 2020 6:53 pm

Moriel, you look so fierce and I’m in love with your characters. Great showmanship and just awesome!

NORIN *RUNTACKLEGLOMPS* You make the cutest penguin!

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sat May 16, 2020 7:45 pm

@Moriel I do not miss carrying lamps like that!

Burnt Toast · Sun May 17, 2020 4:33 am

Thanks @Oro, I appreciate the beard encouragement.
@Queen Nerwen Excellent beard.
I, on the other hand, do miss carrying lamps like that. XD
@Moriel Well, you tempt me to drag out fight and show photos... rude. Also, these are rad, and I swear some day we will get to do a show together, or at least physically meet and fight. Or something. I'm certain it will be epic.

Moriel · Sun May 17, 2020 4:43 am

@Queen Nerwen I spend most of my time in electrics, and when I'm not there its rigging or fly so... lugging things around seems to be my thing

@Mor Toast SOMEDAY MY FRIEND. SOME. DAY. SOON.

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sun May 17, 2020 6:05 pm

@Moriel @mor] I am simply convincing myself I made the correct career choice *lol*

Mognar Firebeard · Tue May 19, 2020 9:02 pm

I might have changed a bit (the beard) and you also have ly lovely wife and my son.

Karis Ziranphel · Sat May 23, 2020 3:02 am

I have pictures with the Queen. :smiley10: Just two for now, from the last time we met. (All in these photos are from the plaza. It was wonderful)

Mognar Firebeard · Sat May 23, 2020 8:03 am

Hey Karis, on the second picture you have more peeps :-) and I know all of them :-p 2 Belgians (Euri and Elessea) and Lena obviously :-p

Karis Ziranphel · Sat May 23, 2020 4:55 pm

Mognar - I meant two photos, but yes. Lovely ladies all.

Eldrith · Sat May 23, 2020 7:17 pm

A dwarf, a Gondorian and a Rohirrim attend a wedding.. It sounds like the start of a joke, doesn't it? But oh it was such a wonderful experience!!

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Sun May 24, 2020 9:31 am

Someone should write that joke!

Nessila · Wed May 27, 2020 4:05 pm

Wait, why didn't you name me by my plaza name, @Mognar Firebeard ? "The American (Nessila)"

Burnt Toast · Wed May 27, 2020 7:30 pm

Queen Nerwen wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 6:05 pm @Moriel @mor] I am simply convincing myself I made the correct career choice *lol*

Fair. I can't deny that I'm enjoying a bit of a break from the endless drive of the theatre world. I feel rested for the first time in years. XD

Mognar Firebeard · Thu May 28, 2020 5:55 am

@Nessila because I wanted to give you the chance to make a big deal about it (and maybe because somehow I might have forgotten your plaza name :smiley8:

and Elessea is my cousin and the twig Euri I met more times then we have so the (plaza)name sticks :-p

Tari · Mon Jun 01, 2020 9:28 pm

@Queen Nerwen @Oro and @Norin Deathfoot y'all look exactly the same.

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Tue Jun 02, 2020 7:46 am

@Tari Thanks babe!!

Linhelm · Tue Jun 09, 2020 5:46 am

Hey used to be on the old plaza and did a few posts but was not as involved as you guys were, was younger and hadn't grown the beard i have been able to grow today yet.

This was a few months ago when i really let it go, but i trimmed it very soon after since it desperately needed.

Nerwen Nuke-queen · Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:42 am

A real life beard!!

Burnt Toast · Tue Jun 09, 2020 3:06 pm

Ahh, such excellent beard! Better yet still, a ginger beard! *stares hopefully at chin* Well... as soon as I've got a beard, y'all dwarves will be the first to know.

Merewyn · Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:53 am

I do believe my beard is coming in well.

Drífa · Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:56 pm

Nice to see so many familiar faces. You all look, wonderful!

Happy Allhalloween!

Drífa · Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:22 pm

I wasn't always a dwarf. Once upon a time, I was a lumberjack. But Roger, with his red beard, influenced my decision to give up the chainsaw and pants for a beard (although never as lovely, soft, and real as his) and axe. He was a great Tolkien fan. It blows my mind that this was almost 45 years ago. :)

Pele Alarion · Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:54 pm

@Drifa , what a great pic though! 45 years is almost a century...

Drífa · Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:08 pm

Yes, Pele, almost a century,

I took this with my laptop camera. I never know where to look when taking selfies. Happy Halloween, folks! Here I am with my Halloween Hat!

Eldrith · Mon Oct 27, 2025 5:13 pm

I adore that hat! And selfies are the bane of my existence! I am a professional photographer with a specialty of portraits (and ceremonies), and I can't take a decent selfie!!!

Pele Alarion · Tue Oct 28, 2025 8:31 am

A lovely hat, @Drífa, and I love that smile on your face! But... the somehow the hat makes me think of the Netherlands, not Halloween. Must be the orange.

Drífa · Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:09 am

Thank you, ladies. I am wearing my Halloween hat to work this week. And just in time. Temperatures have gone below zero in the mornings in my part of the world.
The hex code for Dutch orange is #FF9B00 , according to the web.ꜛ

I am not Dutch, but I am willing to wear orange for Halloween and Dutch national pride.

The hex code for Halloween orange is #E66C2C, according to the web.ꜛ

There seems to be a slight difference, eh? Interesting topic, national colours.

Eamila Bolger · Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:56 pm

As we Dutchies would say: Oranje boven! (Orange high aka long live the royal family)
Still looking for a good photo of myself in the mean time.. one that can be found online that is. Until I do, here's the one of the website of the company I work for. I like this one because it shows my Hobbit curls

Drífa · Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:12 am

Hi @Eamila Bolger! You have not changed much since back in the day on the old Plaza. Lovely to see your face again!