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The Lonely Mountain surely won’t feature much in the first movie (assuming the first movie more-or-less maps to the first half of The Hobbit).

I would love to see Hobbiton Hill above all.

That is very cool. Shouldn’t Prince Philip be clean-shaven and short-haired as in the movie, though?

They have some gigantic, amazing Star Wars sets, so I think we can dare to think big. Minas Tirith would obviously be the crown jewel of the Middle-earth sets. Up to twice as big as Helm’s Deep, but no bigger. It doesn’t have to have seven tiers. It just needs to be treated as a “castle” (rather than a whole city) and abstracted out in the normal way every castle has ever been. As long as it has the recognizable shape — rounded wall, spur of rock, Tower of Ecthelion — you can focus on play elements. Let it swing open so you can have a Houses of Healing room, a Houses of the Dead room, a Hall of the King. Do something cool with the gate.

1. Hornburg 2. Chamber of Mazarbul 3. Gandalf’s Cart 4. Deeping Wall 5. Weathertop 6. Shelob 7. Isengard Forge

The Eomer fig can surely be used for Theodred, Grimbold, Dunhere, Elfhelm, Erkenbrand, and Dernhelm!

Is the set designed so that you can combine two of them, or would that require modding?

Hey, guys. Dumb newbie question. I haven’t collected Legos since the Black Falcons/Crusaders/Forestmen until the MMV. The MMV minifigs still have yellow heads and hands like I remember (not normal smiling faces anymore, but I remember the new faces from when Pirates first came out). These Middle-earth minifigs look... not yellow??