Lego’s New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Set Decides What Shall and Shall Not Go Your Bookshelf

Ever since Lego returned to creating annual Lord of the Rings set, the corporate has gone big, with excessive worth, high-parts-count units that carry bits of Center-earth to life on as grand a scale as doable. Its subsequent one, nevertheless, is a bit totally different.

We already acquired our annual huge Lord of the Rings set this yr with the release of The Shire, however Lego is bringing Lord of the Rings into one other of its toy traces with at present’s announcement of a buildable e book nook recreating Gandalf’s confrontation with the Balrog in Moria from Fellowship of the Rings.

Following on within the vein of the Sherlock Holmes e book nook revealed final month, the $130, 1201-piece Lord of the Rings set can both be displayed solely unfurled, or folded up right into a compacted model of the long-lasting scene that may be simply slotted right into a e book shelf (presumably one you’ve filled with loads of Tolkien tomes).

Lego Lord of the Rings Balrog Ebook Nook

The Balrog Ebook Ebook contains, after all, a minifigure of Gandalf wielding his sword and employees, in addition to a brick-built Balrog, which comes with a recreation of its flame whip in addition to large wings that unfurl outwards when the set is folded out, framed by columns of fireside. And, after all, on the entrance of the set whether or not it’s within the folded or unfolded configuration is a brick printed with Gandalf’s legendary “You shall not move!” quote from the scene, guaranteeing you doing all your greatest Ian McKellen impression everytime you have a look at it.

It’s an uncommon transfer for Lego to carry Lord of the Rings to a few of its different product traces after it’s spent the previous few years solely treating it as a yearly one-off, and hopefully an indication that we would see extra of Center-earth than only one massively expensive set annually. An structure set of Minas Tirith? An buildable artwork piece replicating the portray in Rivendell of Sauron and Isildur’s battle? What a couple of botanicals set of the White Tree of Gondor, or a bundle of athelas? Hell, I can’t be the one one pondering that the fellowship crusing previous the Argonath may need made simply pretty much as good as a e book nook concept as Moria, actually!

It may not be a return to the full-throated Lord of the Rings line that some followers may need wished for, but it surely lets us hope–even when it’s only a idiot’s hope–that we would begin seeing Lord of the Rings pop up on Lego cabinets a bit extra recurrently.

The Lego Lord of the Rings Balrog Ebook Nook is offered to pre-order now, forward of a launch on June 1.

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