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Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
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Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:22:55 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Eric Lind writes:
> 
> > All sorts of interesting stuff to build out of Tolkien, too, but it's either
> > vague or huge.  My source of bricks isn't large enough.
> 
> 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>

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 use those.  Or not.  I guess a micro or nano fig scale could work,
too, but that's no fun.

> 
> Yes, I am ambitious, how can you tell?


Shockingly ambitious.

Eric "the" Lind.



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  Re: Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)

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  Tolkien (was Re: [CW] Pawel and Craig - please clear up this confusion!)
 
(...) 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> (...) (27 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)

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