Updating Your Lord of the Rings Minifigures

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Now Rivendell is out, I thought it was a good time to start this thread. There is already a similar one for Star Wars, Harry Potter, DC, MCU and Pirates of the Caribbean, so one for The Lord of the Rings (as well as The Hobbit and any other Middle Earth) figures seems appropriate. 

If you haven't looked at any of the threads for the other themes, it's a place to share and show off any updates to improve your LOTR figures. 

It will be a while before I get Rivendell, so here are some I have put together in the meantime. 

Tom Bombadil, with his famous yellow boots. He is based on his depiction in the video games, as well as probably the best known illustration. 

I'm quite happy with him, although a more detailed torso and brown legs with boots would be better. 

There is also his appearance on the cards which features one of the crew of LOTR dressed by weta as Tom. 

I think Bilbo's Lake Town garb would look good for this, but unfortunately I don't thi k there are any dark blue legs with yellow boots.

Next, here is one I threw together quickly, some useful figures to help you populate Rivendell. 

Using the 2012-14 elf hair pieces and Princess Leia's old torso, CMF Elf and Centaur, the old Snape and some other torsos from the Hobbit sets 

Finally, here are some of Thorin's company with medium legs. 

Thankfully all legs colours for the Dwarfs are available, these are the only ones I had to hand. 

I also gave Kili a better looking hair piece, although he could also do with an updated face. 

I hope to have some more soon, it would be great to see others work! 

 

[MAB]

 

I have quite a few including non-purist adapted parts. The purist ones include CMF S3 elves with various hoods and they also look good with elf hair, Eowyn (and another with helmet), Rohan soldiers can be made from any scruffy clothes and get tied together with common helmets, the Necromancer from The Hobbit, Frodo and Sam in orc outfits (also good with helmets), Denethor (this one has a custom cape but also looks good with a plain black cape ) and Frodo in Mithril armour. I also have Sting with a painted blue blade that looks good with the last one.

[Seaber]

Very nice! 

A few more updates figures. 

First up are the wizards Gandalf the White and Radagast the Brown, now with with Skirt Pieces to match Gandalf the Grey. 

I think Gandalf looks great, however Radagast looks even more plain than with his unprinted legs though. 

Next up are a couple of Hobbit figures of the same character. 

The 2012-14 sets gave Bain much too modern a haircut, and the Luke Skywalker piece in Dark Tan/Medium Dark Flesh looks much better in my opinion. The face still looks a bit too young though! 

I think 11/13 Dwarves in the Hobbit had great figures, but Kili had a very strange face and an inaccurate hairpiece (I think it was so he could wear a quiver) and Ori who was probably the worst figure. I gave Kili a better hairpiece in my last post but have updated him now with a better face, and for Ori he now has the Mid length legs, a molded slingshot, and a beard piece to make him look more Dwarfish.

I think the Will hairpiece from Stranger Things in reddish brown would be an improvement, but so far it does not exist I that colour.