bruce n h

Thanks for the kind words, everybody. I'm really happy with how this one turned out and will probably keep it together for a long time. x-wing-yoda, in answer to your question: Yes, Brick Tales is my personal site. It's devoted primarily to storytelling illustrated in Lego. The biggest by far portion is The Lord of the Rings, though I haven't updated that in a looooooong time (I actually have large chunks of several chapters built and photographed, but still have more scenes to do before I can post those chapters). Lately most of my building has been on smaller projects. My recent passion is for these small vignettes, and I've started a new site, VignetteBricks to blog cool vignettes that I find. Bruce

Hey all, Are you brave enough to try the Black Diamond slopes? Bruce

Hi all, Does anyone know who marakoeschtra is? They've built some really cool MOCs, but there's no sign of them on Lugnet, MOCpages, 1000steine.de, classic-castle, or Google. I'd love to contact them about some of their castle creations. Models by marakoesctra: Bruce

Hey Jon, For the past year I've been working on all of the chapters that occur in or around Minas Tirith: Book 5 chapter 1 - Minas Tirith Book 5 chapter 4 - The Siege of Gondor Book 5 chapter 6 - The Battle of the Pelannor Fields Book 5 chapter 7 - The Pyre of Denethor Book 5 chapter 8 - The Houses of Healing Book 5 chapter 9 - The Last Debate Book 6 chapter 5 - The Steward and the King So far I have made and photographed several important settings: the Pelannor Fields, a city street of Minas Tirith, the Court of the Fountain/White Tower exterior, the top of a wall, the exterior of the Houses of Healing, the interior of the Houses of Healing. I still have to make and photograph several more locations: the main gate of Minas Tirith, inside Denethor's throne room, the bank of the river, both the exterior and interior of the tombs of the kings, a microscale version of MT for some long-distance views, and a cliffside on Mt. Mindoluin. The problem is, I pretty much have to finish all of the locations before any of the chapters will be finished as each of those chapters has multiple locations. For instance, the gate of MT shows up in book 5 chapter 1, when Gandalf and Pippin arrive at MT and then again when Pippin and Bergil watch the arrival of the armies. It shows up again in book 5 chapter 4 when there is the key confrontation between Gandalf and the Witch King after Grond breaks down the gate. Then again in book 5 chapter 6 the knights of Rohan bear the bodies of Theoden and Eowyn to the gate after the fateful confrontation between Eowyn, Merry, and the Witch King. Chapter 7 begins with Pippin finding Gandalf after the gate (where book 4 left off). In chapter 9 Aragorn and his army are encamped outside the gate and he discusses the plans to attack the Black Gate there. Finally, in book 6 chapter 5 Aragorn returns to Minas Tirith and is met at the gate by Faramir, and he is crowned by Gandalf and Frodo and enters the city as king. Later in that same chapter Arwen arrives with the elves of Rivendel and Lorien and they are all met by Aragorn and company at the gate. And so forth. I don't really want to post any of these chapters in incomplete form, so they'll have the maximum impact, and I won't really finish any of them until I finish all of them. So . . . it may be a bit yet. *wacko* In the meantime I'm doing smaller projects like my Cask of Amontillado. Bruce

Hi all, I figured I'd register over here. Many here may know me from Lugnet, FBTB, or Classic-Castle. On various forums I am known as Bruce N H, Bruce Hietbrink, or Hietbrink (okay, I'm not too creative :D ). I mostly build in castle LEGO themes, though I build occasional MOCs in just about any other theme. My website, Brick Tales, tries to illustrate stories using LEGO. My largest ongoing (albeit very slowly) project focuses on illustrating The Lord of the Rings. I probably won't post a lot on this forum, as I am an admin on Classic-Castle and that takes up most of my on-line LEGO time, but will throw in my two cents on the occasional topic here. BTW, I really like the posting interface here, and I especially love *wub* your clickable smilies. One quick question as to forum usage. Are the "LEGO Theater", "LEGO trains", and "LEGO Castle" forums meant for MOCs, official line discussion, or both? Or do all MOCs belong in "Your Own Creations", regardless of theme? Thanks, Bruce