[MOC] Improved version of LEGO 10367 Balrog Book Nook

[Aachthor]

With this MOC I present an improved version of the LEGO 10367 set, the Balrog Book Nook.

This set has been criticized a lot, and many of the arguments are correct: the set looks quite empty, the Balrog is to small, the bridge does not look good, the prize is way to high...

Nevertheless what I really liked from the beginning is the book nook approach. And if this is the main design decision, it's quite problematic to make the Balrog bigger, or the bridge larger...

When I first saw this set, I imagined it as a "real book-like" set, with a lot more dwarven pillars in the back fading to black and... illumination! In my opinion an illuminated version of this book nook approach would look far better than any "traditional" (and in my opinion boring) display set - even if it would have a bigger Balrog and a better bridge...

So I enhanced the set to look like a real book and added support to ease the illumination of the set.

It can still be fully opened, but also completely closed and then it's like a "one-book-version" of the Lord of the Rings.

I also added the sword of the Balrog and enhanced him so his ribcage can get illuminated. Additionally all light bluish gray parts got exchanged with black (or if not available in black with dark bluish gray) parts. Some of the originally dark bluish gray parts also got exchanged with black parts.


The MOC is available on rebrickable.

 

Edited August 5 by Aachthor

[Elysiumfountain]

Gorgeously done and detailed! I especially love the way you played with the light on the columns, and the different shades of it as it moves further away. Well done!