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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 16:44:04 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Eric Lind writes:
> 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.

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 across.  At minifig scale it is, like the Death Star, Battlestar
Galactica, or other obscenely large things, unfeasable.

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

:)

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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

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