Monthly challenge #6: Inspired by Tolkien
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Monthly challenge #6: Inspired by Tolkien
Hey all,
With the close of the CCC and as we wait for the results, it's time to bring back the monthly challenges. As with all challenges, this is not a contest - i.e. there are no rules, no judging and no prizes. It is simply a spur to build.
This month's challenge is to build something inspired by the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. This could be anything from a custom fig up to a full-scale Minas Tirith. You could draw on anything - books, movies, cartoons, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, whatever.
Play well,
Bruce
With the close of the CCC and as we wait for the results, it's time to bring back the monthly challenges. As with all challenges, this is not a contest - i.e. there are no rules, no judging and no prizes. It is simply a spur to build.
This month's challenge is to build something inspired by the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. This could be anything from a custom fig up to a full-scale Minas Tirith. You could draw on anything - books, movies, cartoons, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, whatever.
Play well,
Bruce
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I will have to think of something for sure...
Happy 118th Birthday to Professor Tolkien today!!!
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Happy 118th Birthday to Professor Tolkien today!!!
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Yeah ! Thats a cool challenge !
I think I'll enter.
I think I'll enter.
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Excellent topic. However due to time constrictions I may not be able to place an "entry".
Thanks for holding these though Bruce.
Thanks for holding these though Bruce.
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finally
I can't wait to see what people will build
I can't wait to see what people will build
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Did Tolkien write anything that isn't LOTR-like?
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Why do I have to add the word "minifig" to my spell checker every time I use it?!
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So I geuss I'll start this off,
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/246163
It's from the Hobbit, when Bard shoots Smaug.
It's also forced perspective.
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/246163
It's from the Hobbit, when Bard shoots Smaug.
It's also forced perspective.
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Ye Old Republic---
Tolkien wrote Roverandom, an excellent children"s tale...
Tolkien wrote Roverandom, an excellent children"s tale...
"Life is a blooming miracle, all wrapped in a package of light, and the hands of God are ever strong for doing what He might..."
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How about Leaf by Niggle?Ye Olde Republic wrote:Did Tolkien write anything that isn't LOTR-like?
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Sir Giles of Ham as well.
Translated Sir Gawain and th Green Knight and Beowulf
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Translated Sir Gawain and th Green Knight and Beowulf
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Next time you are at my house, remind me to show you my Tolkien shelf. There's lots that isn't LOTResque.Ye Olde Republic wrote:Did Tolkien write anything that isn't LOTR-like?
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Off the top of my head, there were some stories he wrote for his children following the adventures of a little dog called Roverrandom. He also wrote a collection of tales about Santa Claus.Ye Olde Republic wrote:Did Tolkien write anything that isn't LOTR-like?
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I am a huge tolkien fan so I think I'll put up my auto reloading NXT and build one or two of the seven gates of Gondolin. Speaking of Tolkien, It is my dream to make helms deep out of legos so i was wondering if you guys think I should use light or dark grey(both are bluish vareties) I am only 15 so this is like a life long project but my concerns are the dark grey blending in with the rocks and the cost of getting all the dark grey when i am also getting light grey for normal castles. Thanks.
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dear lotr953lordoftherings953 wrote:I am a huge tolkien fan so I think I'll put up my auto reloading NXT and build one or two of the seven gates of Gondolin. Speaking of Tolkien, It is my dream to make helms deep out of legos so i was wondering if you guys think I should use light or dark grey(both are bluish vareties) I am only 15 so this is like a life long project but my concerns are the dark grey blending in with the rocks and the cost of getting all the dark grey when i am also getting light grey for normal castles. Thanks.
I do believe that any color will suffice, and dark and light grey will not blend together but my advice is to try to build NOW, this moment, if not whole Helm's Deep, then just entrance, or the wall
In any colors that you have
you will see, experience that you will get with building it will benefit you greatly when you build it later on, in years to come, when your Lego collection get bigger and the joy you will feel planning and building will be reword for itself
Do not have enough grey bricks? Use red. Or yellow (or blue, but you could keep blue just for that little stream that was doom of Helm's Deep . Improvise, and put wings on your imagination - i.e. it does not have to be the same as in the movie (book), you can add something, or remove some part
Here are examples of Lego built Helm's Deep: link and link
And here's example of the smaller one: link
And, at the end, here's one blue one: link
There, building will give you so much joy, even if you do not finish it, because shortage of bricks or time.
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A small contribution to Tolkien MOC`s, a scene from my favorite tale Children of Hurin.
Hurin`s imprisonment
Hurin`s imprisonment