It was standing room only at Living Hope Community Church as family and friends gathered to celebrate the lives of Jacques and Torin Lakeman.
About 200 people attended Friday’s service at the Port St Mary church in memory of the brothers who died in December.
It saw live music including from Jacques and Torin’s band Freaky Stiltskin & The Hot Rocks, traditional songs, and poems, and readings from The Hobbit.
Video clips featuring their appearances in primary school shows and Torin winning a class at the Guild at the age of seven were shown, along with a slideshow of pictures.
Their father, Ray, said: ‘We put out for people who wanted to do things and approached one or two people we knew.
‘We tried to reflect as much of their short lives as possible.
‘Considering the circumstances, it was a lovely, uplifting evening.’
The bodies of Jacques, aged 20, and Torin, 19, were found in a flat above a pub in Bolton early last month.
Both were former Castle Rushen High School students, where their mother Sarah is a teacher. Torin was in his second year studying physics with planetary and space physics at Aberystwyth and Jacques was a talented musician.
They shared a love of Lord of the Rings and Torin had a vast collection of figures.
Ray has invited people to hide a model figure, a ‘Jactoribute’, in a special spot ‘where they could have gone, would have gone, should have gone’.
They have now been left in spots around the world, as far away as Tasmania, and including the United States and Norway as well as closer to home.
Updates on where the ‘Jactoributes’ have been left are on the Jactor Project Facebook page.