A website devoted entirely to large bare foot, latex prosthetic feet.
Are we the victims of LOTR-Dicks running around the woods, playing Elfs and Hobbits?

http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/making...lHobbitFeet.htm

Un believable.

Those sure look like dermal ridges

Those are dermal ridges, and I think they're "authentic."
I believe that in the Rings films they made the hobbit feet by casting the actual feet of the actors that were playing the parts. Then they made jumbo prosthetic feet from those casts. I don't know anything about how they increase the size. But I'm pretty sure that I did see in one of the LOTR making-of documentaries that they cast the actual actors' feet. So those ridges would probably even match the feet of the actors that were wearing them.
The material seems pretty flexible, too. ...Probably would be good for making convincing hoaxes. I hope it's not too easy to make them.
One problem: The actors mentioned that the things really made their feet smell awful.
Not the prettiest things either.

btw, your link is broken.

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I think this is important research material, I mean if hobbyists can manufacture realistic fake feet with scarring and dermal ridges, why couldn't a dedicated hoaxer, using the same technology, easily fool someone who bases the authenticity of a cast, on dermal ridges?

Wasn't that a segment in one of the "bigfoot" TV shows? I remember seeing a guy make a mold of his own foot and soaked it in thinner to expand the mold. He said anyone with the time and energy could hoax prints complete with dermal ridges and scars.

Edit to say.... The guy looked like the dark haired fellow that helped in the attempt to re-create Patty's gate during the "Meldrum" episode of Monsterquest.

Ah, but you forget that the dermal ridges found on some BF prints do not look like human dermal ridges. They appear to be a mix of human and primate characteristics.

I think this was covered in the Legends video or some show. Lord knows I can't keep them all straight...

So while enlarging a human print might work, it wouldn't explain the unique patterns. And it would take a complete understanding of human and primate physiology to hoax this level of detail.

pas , i believe it was the same guy and after soaking it in thinner it got like 18 inches long and he said he could keep enlargeing it it just took more time soaking

Esteban Sarmiento.

Gesundheit!!!

No matter how good the prosthetic feet would "look", they still wouldn't leave convincing tracks without some sort of internal structure to support the added length and toes. When the wearer stepped, they'd just bend where his real foot stopped, and would leave tracks that were deep where his weight was, but be very shallow where the rubber foot bent. (since not having any weight or structure in it.) Then there's also the whole toe flexion thing.

-Sarge