Whatever you may think of Peter Jackson’s cinematic Hobbit trilogy, even Tolkien purists have no beef with Jackson’s rendering of the malevolent dragon Smaug.
Now a Swedish artist and sculptor has constructed Smaug from gingerbread.
Stockholm’s Aftonbladet reports, Dec. 23, 2014, that 27-year-old Swedish artist and sculptor Caroline Eriksson has gingerbread in the blood. During childhood, her family had a tradition of building a gingerbread house at Christmas time.
“But I got tired of it and wanted to do the harder stuff. So I started building towers and ships and such,” says Eriksson.
Last year, Eriksson built a gingerbread Optimus Prime, a character in the Transformers movies, and won first prize in a contest — a trip to Bali.
This year, Eriksson took two weeks and many late evenings to construct a 70 cm (28 in.) long, 50 cm (20 in.) tall replica of the dragon Smaug entirely out of gingerbread.
Caroline Eriksson’s gingerbread Smaug
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See also “A dragon in his garden” about John Brooker, 75, who spent 10 years sculpting the hedgerow outside his cottage in Norfolk, England, into a huge, 100 ft. long, magnificent dragon, complete with six legs, wings, and pointed teeth.
~Eowyn