The Fellowship of the Ring

This all started because Molly and I became involved in this great peg folk exchange over at Webloomhere .  We each have 5 different people (Mols has kids here own age) from all over the globe to make and send a special little peg person to with a little story about the doll or inspiration it came from.  Molly has been very busy writing about her little dolls and has just started working on them.  I'm not allowed to talk about or show any pictures yet she says not until they are done.  I plan on getting mine started today and finished over the weekend.  We started with this little bucket-o-peg dolls:

and this pile of Elsa Beskow books for some start up inspiration:

Boy oh boy we love Elsa around here.  It's been so great over the years, first reading them the kids over and over.  Peter in Blueberry Land and Ollie's Ski Trip were big favorites.  Now the kids read them on their own, and while they often sort through books that they have outgrown to send to goodwill never do these books make it anywhere near that pile! 
Anyway, that was was the plan, Molly and I would start in with ideas for our peg folks.  Corey was busy reading...

He's deep in the Lord of the Rings trilogy right now.  I was a little worried about the writing being to difficult for his tender 9 year old mind, but in his words "These books are addictive"!  He's started the second book and is completely enthralled.  So when we got out the peg dolls this is what happened.

The Fellowship of the Ring

He asked me to order more peg doll! So far we have Gandolf, Frodo, Sam, Arigon, Legolas, Bilbo and some black riders.  While he's awaiting the arrival of more dolls he's started a needle felted scene of middle earth for the to adventure on. 
So much for my thinking he'd have no interest in the peg dolls!

by the way, Molly's are so sweet I can't wait till I'm "allowed" to post pictures.