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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 16:54:57 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Eric Lind writes:
> > 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.
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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 across. At minifig scale it is, like the Death Star, Battlestar
> Galactica, or other obscenely large things, unfeasable.
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
does not begin to describe this.
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