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Well, all these endless wishlists made me stop reading everything middle Earth related. It'd be a shame if the same happened again.

Well thanks lads, this was actually just a little exercise in water techniques and photo editing. Due to the white I photographed this infront of an orange background and when cutting out the orange, this morning light effect appeared. it was not planend but I must say but I like the effect nonetheless.

Fun story and one funky colored cart, obviously a Kai creation. I like it!

An amazing piece of art, that's for sure! My favourite part would have to be the crypt and the blood fountain, not quite sure how you did but it's absolutely superb!

What a fun build, I like it!

Very nice Vig here, really like the autumn forest!

Amazing stuff as always and your story actually is really interesting too, although I do think the winter is getting to you too.

Hey, you were here first and it's a man's right to have a split personality!

No problem mate, I fully understand what you are saying. And I just explained why I don't feel like following this topic anymore. So please do use the report button when things become intolerable.

I'm kinda sorry you feel this way, but what you have to understand is that it has become virtually impossible to follow this thread for the reasons mentioned by brickjagger. This thread here has become such a geek topic that often enough I don't know what the hell people are talking about and that beside the fact that I'd consider my English rather okay. But it's all those crazy acronyms alone drive me insane already, not to mention the rest. So if you guys don't use the report button or tell the mods via pm nothing will happen. Honestly, I've absolutely given up to follow any LoTr or Hobbit threads, nor do I ever view any mocs related to the topic!

I really wonder who of the crew besides Capt. Stabbin is still aboard. The Admiral who started this hasn't posted anything since June.

Those sheep are fun to look at! I still wish though Lego finally made them.

Was wondering when your bro would finally allow you to build here. I'm glad you now do, amazing stuff for an intro!

Yeah mate, been sick with a low intensity flu and gone working anyway, so by the time I get home I'm sometimes in a really weird condition ... so camping and drinking at fire with some friends is something of a faint dream I'm craving. As for the mead, I'm still trying to figure out how to ship those bottles without breaking them ...

Klaas wasn't quite as much a drinker as his friends were. So when the others were still sleeping he had taken the boat and gone for a pleasure ride in the bay. But when the sudden storm had kicked in he was taken by surpise on the open water. Now, as he was rowing for his life, a big wave had lifted him above the boling water. But when he finally saw what was coming across the water from the Frozen Beyond he stopped to breath and said his last prayer ...

That swan is just so well done that I'd say it deserves its own moc. The whole scene is great though!

True, but the products are still on the shelves. And, as long as you guys keep discussing, the thread stays on top.

Yellows vs. Fleshies seems to be an issue of minor concern here. The big question is how to get the Pirates forum running in general again.

It's not up there yet because so far it's all rumors. TLG actually checks regularily in how far we present their products. That's how we can hand out prices for competitions. However, TLG is usually pissed off about leaks being posted too early.

we miss ya too!

Thanks guys! Credit for the wave technique actually has got to go to McCoyed. I just went a tittle further by adding a few white cheeses. But essentially it's his. The fish are a last minute addition though I came up with myself after several hours of thinking and tinkering. I really feel honored you'd say so. One question remains though, will I ever get featured oh you personal hp? we'll see ...

thought I might let the interested know that I was working on this project again:

It's Bard's legs and an orc torso from the fantasy era plus Mitgardian green arms of course!

Thanks mates, glad you like it! ya'll shall see! these houses were actually used by Viking settlers in Iceland, Greenland and even Newfoundland, check this out: as for the fish, this is actually meant to be the sea, and the fish will evetually land on the beach! no time to eat any of the fish, Ragnar and his pals better get away really fast! I have no clue why Lego and beer (mead, wine) actually go so well together ... anyway, proost!

Midsummer in the Clandlands region, high in the Mitgardian Arctic - the last patches of snow and ice have just melted away and now nature in the tundra is trying hard really to make its's inhabitants forget that for almost 9 months it is actually not such an inviting place! Flowers pop out of the simingly nowhere, birds take to the skies and for a brief time the landscape is as green and lush as in the Avalonian heartland. So the people of the Northern clans celebrate these days without night like no other holiday in the Mitgardian calender. A mead trader from somewhere South had shown up yesterday to provide a bunch of rangers with the neccesary fuel to celebrate the few days these normally solitary travelers now spend together. And boy, what a mead this was! - the singing and talking and joking around the campfire had lasted for hours until sometime in the mornig all had fallen asleep outside. Blankets were not needed, for the air was mild and the sky free of clouds - if possible, a night in the open was always prefered over a night in the damp turf house. So everything was great and a new sunny day full of drink and food and joy lay ahead of them. The Mitgardian clanlands at Midsummer - a Northern paradise! Ragnar had actually not been sleeping very long when he was suddenly woken by a strange sentiment. He got up, took a leak and walked down to the beach. His dog Henry was already there and stared bewildered at the sea that marked the border to the Frozen Beyond, a territory North of Mitgardia, no one had ever come back from in order to tell what was there. Only a few crude tales existed that were whispered by old women during the cold and dark winter nights in order to scare the children, tales so gruesome, they actually made children cry and seek refuge in their mothers' arms. Normally the clanspeople therefore simply didn't think, nor talk about the Frozen Beyond and even the bravest fisherman never dared sailing these waters beyond the sight of the land. But this morning, as Ragnar stared out at the sea, he inevitably had to think about these old tales he had long since forgotten. Yes, he was still drunk from the mead they all had enjoyed so much, and yes it usually din't take more that 14 or 15 goblets for him to see things that weren't actually there. But as Ragnar stood there a cold and biting wind started blowing from the North clearing his blurred mind. He started to wonder: wasn't it supposed to be low tide this time a day? So why did the waves run up high on the beach then? And what abou this wind, just a few hours ago everything was nice and warm and the experienced rangers had seen no signs that the wheather was to change any time soon. Why so cold all of the sudden? And why did these clouds out there look so strange, why did they have shapes he had never seen before? Then all of the sudden the weirdest thing happened: the fish started to jump out of the water as if fleeing from great danger. Ragnar shiverd uncontrollably and all at once he knew, he had to get out of here. Something really terrible was about to happen ...