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| | | (...) of (...) <delurk> I just re-read these from a large, hard bound book with full color illustrations. My mom (through some cool machinations) bought this thing for like $5 and was gracious enough to loan it to me. The cover has a full map of (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!) —James Brown
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| | | | | (...) The correct answer is both vague AND huge. ;) I've done some research into making Minas Tirith, and come to the conclusion it will involve a lot of artisitic license. JJR has a grand total of about 150 words of descriptive text for it..<sigh> (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!) —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | (...) Very true (vague, huge, with a sense of being quite elaborate while having no description). I'm looking forward to the upcoming live-action LotR movies to see how they tackle the problem. Of course, one could always get the animated movies and (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!) —James Brown
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| | | | | | (...) Nonsense. :) I am in the throes of planning out a model of Minas Tirith, at a micro-fig scale, where people are ~1 brick tall. Even at this scale, my best size estimate is that I can't really get it under 5 feet high and about 6 or 7 feet (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!) —Eric Lind
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| | | | | | (...) animated (...) Minas Tirith is, after all, set on a mountain, with 7 (is it 7, it's been a while since my semi-annual Tolkien re-reading) levels, a citadel on the top, walls on all levels, a huge city below, and a variety of other stuff. Huge (...) (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion! —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | (...) glad you de-lurked, eric! my blue "summer" castle (preview pic on the CW site now) was inspired from the Narnia books. instead, i named it "Cair Parsifal", incorporating a bit of aurthurian legend. later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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