Lord of the Rings Ongoing Discussion

[Jarreth2]

@BrickBob Studpants I've only just seen the drawing of the alleged Sherlock set .. now that's what a proper book nook looks like IMO. I immediately thought of Gandalf and the Balrog and have higher hopes I think although the bookends idea could have possibly worked maybe joining them together if you didn't want books in between, mind you I guess that defeats the whole point of bookends 😂 Hopefully some info soon 

[Kaijumeister]

Yeah that Sherlock Holmes book nook looks excellent going by the sketch, can’t wait to see the LotR one now.

Given that the Harry Potter one includes 2 minifigures and the Sherlock one also includes a handful, I wonder if we’ll get more than just Gandalf here? Perhaps either Aragorn or Boromir with Frodo? It would be awesome to get some sort of Nameless Things easter egg incorporated into the base of the build even if we don’t know what they look like.

Edited April 24 by Kaijumeister

[BigHobbit]

A fateful Instagram post shows the EXCELLENT Sherlock set in full now. It looks amazing, so I'm really looking forward to seeing the LotR one, too.

[RichardGoring]

I can see the LOTR book nook going either route - Harry Potter book ends, or Sherlock Holmes book nook - as you can either do the Balrog on one side and Gandalf on the other of book ends, with the books being the bridge, or you could do it like Sherlock Holmes, where it folds out to show the bridge, although the book nook view would likely show the back of Gandalf. Still might look good though. Really looking forward to seeing how they do it.

[Roebuck]

3 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

I can see the LOTR book nook going either route - Harry Potter book ends, or Sherlock Holmes book nook - as you can either do the Balrog on one side and Gandalf on the other of book ends, with the books being the bridge, or you could do it like Sherlock Holmes, where it folds out to show the bridge, although the book nook view would likely show the back of Gandalf. Still might look good though. Really looking forward to seeing how they do it.

Maybe I misunderstand you, but I think the HP one is similar to the Sherlock one so you could close that as well or keep it open like the picture that leaked..

[kuzyabricks]

3 hours ago, Roebuck said:

Maybe I misunderstand you, but I think the HP one is similar to the Sherlock one so you could close that as well or keep it open like the picture that leaked..

I don’t think the HP set closes. It has rubber tires on the bottom too for friction which the Sherlock set doesn’t have. Bookends would need it, book book not so much. 

[MAB]

8 hours ago, RichardGoring said:

... or you could do it like Sherlock Holmes, where it folds out to show the bridge, although the book nook view would likely show the back of Gandalf. ...

Or they could do it side on, so you see the sides of both the Balrog and Gandalf.

[Lordhelmet]

Excited to see the Balrog, the Harry Potter and Sherlock ones were good.  I am hoping for bookends still over the book nook, but as long as it is well executed I am good either way.

[Artanis I]

I'm not overly optimistic about a decent sized balrog if it needs to fit inside a folded book like the Sherlock Holmes set.

[mcbbvb]

I guess a decent sized balrog would only work if it’s in the length of the book nook. So you would look at the back of Gandalf.
 

I also wonder how the book nook would work when openend. It would mean either half of it is not part of the scene or they wouldn’t face each other. Any way I think of it, it faces the same issue as the Harry Potter one: it makes sense in one configuration but not both.