Someone made Middle-Earth out of Legos. No, I don't mean "part" of Middle-Earth. I MEAN ALL OF IT. Look at Minas-Tirith:
Then go here for pictures of:
• Hobbiton
• The town of Bree and the Inn of the Prancing Pony
• Rivendell
• The mines of Moria
• Isengard and the tower of Orthanc
• The Golden Hall of Edoras
• The beacon towers
• Helm's Deep
• The Pellinor Fields and Sauron's armies
• Osgiliath
• Minas Morghul
• The Black Gate of Mordor
• Mount Doom
• And the tower of Barad-Dur
It's insane. these were all made by a group of incredibly talented and devoted nerds for Brickcon 2011. If you do one thing today... well, read my Transformers 3 FAQ which should be up in half an hour and send it to every person you know. But if you do two things today, the second should be checking out this amazing feat of nerdery. Infinite thanks to Elizabeth H. for the tip.
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Then go here for pictures of:
• Hobbiton
• The town of Bree and the Inn of the Prancing Pony
• Rivendell
• The mines of Moria
• Isengard and the tower of Orthanc
• The Golden Hall of Edoras
• The beacon towers
• Helm's Deep
• The Pellinor Fields and Sauron's armies
• Osgiliath
• Minas Morghul
• The Black Gate of Mordor
• Mount Doom
• And the tower of Barad-Dur
It's insane. these were all made by a group of incredibly talented and devoted nerds for Brickcon 2011. If you do one thing today... well, read my Transformers 3 FAQ which should be up in half an hour and send it to every person you know. But if you do two things today, the second should be checking out this amazing feat of nerdery. Infinite thanks to Elizabeth H. for the tip.
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Thank you ALL so much the the positive comments on this creation. It was a year's worth of work between 15 builders from 5 different countries that made this dream a reality. As one of the "Geeks responsible" your praise is beyond cool! Heck, we were just hoping to impress the Lego geeks but it's reached so far beyond that! Thank you all! ~ Chris. (P.S. In answer to one of the questions below, yes, the plural of Lego is Lego).
I was really hoping TR would have some good reading for me on my birthday. And this was the best present I could have ever gotten. Thank you....
I have no words to describe the sheer awe inducing amazement I feel. Let it be known from this day forth that should I perish I request to be buried under this MIddle Earth!
You know, I was about to scream, "Sweet Evil Flying Jesus!" when I saw the Minas Tirith model.
And then I saw the tower of Barad Dur.
And I wept. For I am an insignificant speck of dust in the face of this greatness. X3
And come on, Lego, these fans just shamed you, you need to step it up by getting the LOTR license for real and trying to match the genius of these sets (Someone put the fucking EYE OF SAURON up there!)
There appear to be only five levels of Minas Tirith, not seven.
This entire display is now a crushing failure.
(I am being immensely sarcastic, as this is stupendous work, and the geeks responsible have a place in Nerdvana.)
talk about a work of a pure lego master and genius for not only did it probly take a lot of time and legos. but all of middle earth proves such fan love. Midnes tierus is impressive.
I think the site has been brought down by the crushing weight of nerd traffic from all corners of the internet.
EDIT - Seems to be back up.
That is just amazing, and is actually doing a very good job of walking the fine line between awesomely nerdy and way too much time on your hands.
And the TF3 FAQ, I don't know, I'm waiting to see if ext weekend, but I don't know if I want the movie spoiled even if it is in a funny, angry way
When I had Legos as during pre-school, I used to stack the two of the 2-segmented ones together so I could pretend they were dogs (and sometimes severely simplified Pokémon if the person I was playing with was familiar with them), then construct a crappy rainbow-colored park and walked or battled them.Mini-me just got fucking owned, once again.
I don't think I can type a response nerdy enough to encapsulate the sheer amount of want that I have for all of this. Good god, I need a nap from the visual orgasm I just had.
