The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Contract Of Bilbo Baggins

replica movie prop

Thorin Oakenshield and his band of rowdy Dwarves present respectable home-loving Hobbit Bilbo Baggins with an offer to engage his services as Burglar, on their quest to reclaim a massive treasure from the dragon Smaug at the Lonely Mountain. The contract promises much danger and adventure, two things Hobbits are generally not fond of.

Crafted by the creator of the original movie document, calligrapher and artist Daniel Reeve. Exact digital scan of the filming prop's flamboyant script, printed on five sheets of the same heavy paper (Arches watercolour 185gsm cold-pressed) as used onscreen, then individually aged and weathered. Panels are subsequently hand-stitched together, with a wax seal at the end of each seam, into the imposing 4'7" long final document.

From Weta.