LotR Castle MOC

[Sigolf Brimabane]

Hail to thee, fellow LEGO-fan!

This Month my Brother and I started buying LotR LEGO. When it first came out, we weren't that impressed by it... Then when we first decided to buy some Sets (Moria, Uruk-Hai Army, Gandalf Arrives), our Opinion had changed and we thought all of the Sets to be really nice. So we've picked up all Sets from the LotR Series except Shelob and the Polybags.

When we got our Hands on Helm's Deep, I was astounded over how many good Bricks there were in that Set. So I kept Watch on tradera.com (a Swedish Auction Site similar to eBay) for another Helm's Deep. And at last I got one, about 20 per cent cheaper than in the cheapest Stores.

I had decided to do a MOC out of Helm's Deep. The overall Structure of the Hornburg is still there, but yeah... Ye will get to see for yourselves.

This is what I made from 2 Helm's Deep and 1 Uruk-Hai Army:

View from above:

Side:

Elfin Archers:

The Back:

View from the beleaguered Castle:

Cavalry Charge:

Another Picture:

This is the first Time I upload anything I've built, and as ye all can see, it's not very original. But it looketh good, I think for myself. :)

I took the Pictures with my Phone and I'm not a good Photographer so if the Pictures are Crap, let me know xD

Maybe I should have taken more Photos of the round Structure in the Middle. It has a Door, and is made of two of those Things from the Helm's Deep Set (the Door being the only new Thing to it).

Edited December 22, 2012 by Sigolf Brimabane

[Mr_Malfoy]

Great MOC! I love the round design of the fortress.

[soccerkid6]

Very nice castle You incorporated the different sections from the set nicely

[Hive]

Good shape for a LEGO castle, though the structure in the center makes it a bit too crowded I think. Perhaps you could instead incorporate the round piece in the center as a huge tower in one of the corners of the main castle? I think that would look great.

[Sigolf Brimabane]

Thanks for the good response :D

Good shape for a LEGO castle, though the structure in the center makes it a bit too crowded I think. Perhaps you could instead incorporate the round piece in the center as a huge tower in one of the corners of the main castle? I think that would look great.

Good thinking, although I don't really understand what the tower would look like. But I had some thoughts about a tower in some way... But I really like the round thing. The other option would be to extend the walls, making more room, I guess. But that I don't have bricks for :(

The good thing with not having a tower is, however, that it looks pre-medieval. Antique even :D Like some kind of Iron Age fortification ^^

I just looked into Iron Age hill forts, and well... They were often round and situated upon hills. And I guess then that this would be a hill fort xD

Edited December 22, 2012 by Sigolf Brimabane

[Andy D]

Very nice! I like the round structure of the castle and I like the inner round structure, it gives it a feeling of layers of defense.

Andy D

Edited December 22, 2012 by Andy D

[Evil Porkchop]

Very nice, I've been wanting to do something very similar. Just waiting to find another very cheap Helm's Deep.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Very nice MOC, I like the black ladders!

The whole castle is stunning!

[Sigolf Brimabane]

Very nice MOC, I like the black ladders!

The whole castle is stunning!

It's mostly just a rearrangement of 2 sets of LEGO Lord of the Rings's 'Helm's Deep' :)

[Balthazar]

Wow! Nice MOC, I like it!

[xbellicx]

It's mostly just a rearrangement of 2 sets of LEGO Lord of the Rings's 'Helm's Deep' :)

Yes it is nice, but still only a two 9474 putted together :-)