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Really nice build; the map of Numenor is a great touch.

Thanks guys. I get what you mean, Mutant Orc; I considered quite a few different faces to get the look I wanted. I was going for 'not ugly but still angry and malevolent'. It wasn't easy and I wouldn't have minded something a bit more sort of handsome but in a dark, sinister way, but I'm happy with the expression.

This is a small, simple vignette I put together to show how I imagined the forging of the One Ring. The movies shows him as the freaky, spiky-armoured giant in the flashbacks to the ring's forging but, the way I read the character of Sauron, this is more as I imagine him to appear at the time of the forging of the rings, given the fact his ability to take on a 'fair' form wasn't lost until some time afterwards.

I don't know what they'll be doing with the battle in the film, but from the book a great 'bigfig' to have included in the set would have been Beorn in bear form. He plays quite a crucial role in the battle and we've had his humanform minifig.

Absolutely stunning; I love this. The way you have done Smaug is just amazing.

MEC Category A: Vingilot - Ship of Earendil http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101774

Hello everyone. This is my first post as a member so please go easy on me. I've been working on this ship for a couple of weeks ago and I did post an incomplete work-in-progress image of it on a lego reddit sub, but it has been largely rebuilt and reimagined for this competition. It's also from a time in the Tolkien mythology that isn't covered by the films so may not qualify, but here goes anyway. Earendil with a Silmaril and his flying ship, Vingilot, on which he sailed to Valinor, slew Ancalagon the Black dragon and now carries the Silmaril as a star across the skies. The sticker on the sail I made myself (using microsoft word autoshapes) but the design is based on one version of Tolkien's designs for Earendil's heraldic device. >> I decided the ship and one minifig alone didn't really look much like an official set, so I've added a couple of elements. I've included a pier of the Havens of Sirion and Cirdan the Shipwright. Cirdan actually features very briefly at the end of RotK and is by the time the oldest of all the elves in Middle-Earth. Seen here: http://tolkiengatewa...er_-_Círdan.jpg The pier and barrels added a little bit of interactivity, although I wouldn't go so far as calling it a play feature - they don't shoot or catapult anything. I was going to put some food in the barrels but I discovered that the only food piece that I have is an apple that won't fit inside. The ship is depicted without its trans-clear stand in the first few shots as it doesn't become a flying ship until after Earendil's voyage to Valinor. I don't have the necessary equipment to take good photos, but I think you should get the idea. More images, mostly all the same: http://imgur.com/a/0q7Jo EDIT: I've updated the first two images with a different brick just below the sail, which is the piece I originally intended to use but didn't know if I would get in time to enter. EDIT2: Added small pier and Cirdan the Shipwright

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