Micro Rivendell

Marcel Vei built Rivendell.

16x16 scenes

Ivan Storm built a number of great Middle Earth scenes, intentionally limiting himself to a 16x16 footprint.

Massive Rivendell

You have probably seen pictures of the massive Rivendell display that Alice Finch and David Frank from BrickCon earlier this year. I've been waiting for them to post good pictures online, and they have finally done so. Check through that large gallery of richly detailed pictures, and also be sure to read the interview on the Brothers-Brick.

Council of Elrond

Disco86 made this great version of the .

Rivendell

Mandrakesarecool2 built this Rivendell. You can see more details on this YouTube video.

Middle Earth

Sharon Vance displayed this amazing Middle Earth at BrickWorld.

Rivendell

Kyle Peterson displayed this Rivendell recently at BrickWorld.

MELO round 1 - selected favorites

Sixty-three people entered the Middle Earth LEGO Olympics. I've already featured all of the head-to-head pairings from the second round onwards, but only a couple from the qualifying round. There's no way I'm going to feature all sixty-three, so I'll just post a few personal favorites. This round was wide open, and builders were invited to build anything from the Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings. Here are some based on random locations.

Flax Kikare gave this interpretation of the dwarven halls in the Ered Luin.


Justin M gave us a typical home in Hobbiton.


Derrick Rose's Unexpectexd Guest shows a nice little detail from Rivendell.


Kyle Ransom made his version of Radagast's home at Rhosgobel.

MELO Round 2 - Orthanc bracket part 1

More from round 2 of the Middle Earth LEGO Olympics, here is part 1 of the Orthanc bracket.

Kyle Ransom was pitted against Garrett A with the category A shortcut to mushrooms. Kyle Ransom advanced.



Jackson Williams was pitted against Hugo Van with the category Weathertop. Jackson Williams advanced.



LukeClarenceVan The Revanchist was pitted against A Sargent with the category The Council of Elrond. LukeClarenceVan The Revanchist advanced.



David was pitted against Toa Infernum with the category The caverns of Isengard. Toa Infernum advanced.

Rivendell

Here are two views of Rivendell, one from Disco86 and another from Legopard.

Council of Elrond

Kǻrrde built this great version of the Council of Elrond.

Rivendell

I've been waiting for this to go online. Earlier this month, Blake Baer and Jack Bittner brought their collaborative Rivendell MOC to BrickFair, and now they've finally put it up on MOCpages.

Rivendell

A builder named Sharon displayed a number of great Lord of the Rings MOCs at BrickBash earlier this year. If someone could direct me to her personal Flickr/Brickshelf/MOCpage, I'd be much obliged. Anyway, here is her Rivendell.

Rivendell

Lord of the Lego Stud built this massive Rivendell.

Rivendell

Gabe Umland presents this scene from Rivendell. It think this is the first MOC I've featured that includes the 'official' figs.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all. On December 25, of Third Age 3018, the company of the Ring set out from Rivendell at dusk. Here's how I illustrated this scene.

Labels for posts (1 of 3)

Just a quick post to help organize the labels I'll be using for posts. I'll actually have to break this up into pieces, since I can only have so many labels per post. Creations featured here will be organized in a few ways: By place: Shire, Eriador, Rivendell, Misty Mountains, Wilderland, Mirkwood, Lonely Mountain, Moria, Lothlorien, Fangorn, Rohan, Gondor, Mordor, Lindon, Beleriand, Valinor. Yes, some of these are subsets of others (e.g. the Shire is in Eriador, Moria is in the Misty Mountains, a whole host of places are within Wilderland, etc.), but in those cases I will only use the smaller subset to designate a place. For instance, a Hobbiton scene would get the tag Shire, but not Eriador, while a Bree scene would be labeled Eriador. By subject type: Location (for those MOCs primarily focused on a building or an exterior location), scene (for those MOCs depicting some action, even when it is at some location), characters and creatures (when people just make custom figs or build a Balrog or whatever). There will obviously be some overlap here - for instance, Shelob fighting Sam with the Tower of Cirith Ungol in the background - but I'll try to pick just one of these (scene in this example). By creation type: I won't put minifig scale, since most creations will be at that scale, but microscale, miniland, sculpture, mosaic By book: Hobbit, Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King, Silmarillion. Scene MOCs are obviously tied to specific books. Location MOCs will be attributed to the first book (in publication order) where they were fully described. So Bag End would be linked to the Hobbit, even though it shows up in Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King as well. Orthanc is mentioned in Fellowship, but is fully described in the Two Towers, so would be linked there. I'll do the same with characters, but characters in groups will be linked to where that group came up. So Gandalf by himself would go to the Hobbit, since he is first linked there, but Gandalf as part of the group of nine walkers goes to Fellowship. Allusions to characters in verse is the exception here. Beren and Luthien, Earendil and some others come up in songs in Lord of the Rings, but are fully described in the Silmarillion, and so would go there. Some characters are never really fully described, and so would go where they are first mentioned - for instance, I'd link Gil-Galad with Fellowship, since the Last Alliance is described as a matter of lore (or living memory, if you're Elrond) in Fellowship, but he's never a fully realized character anywhere else (hmm, is there anything in the HOME books? I can't think of any, but maybe in UT). Some others: metadiscussion, non-LEGO, contest, official theme news