Now, I've tried my hand at creating one of my favorite (former) skyscrapers, L.A.'s old Richfield Building, partly because I could not find any LEGO models of it with a cursory search of the web. I'm a bit of a noob to serious LEGO building, mostly because I've never really had enough bricks to play around with. To get away from Tolkien, I am starting to plan the construction of an 8.5 foot high model of Detroit's art-deco Guardian Building (as soon as the LUGBulk order arrives). For example, the window of the eye at the top was supposedly level with the entrance to Mount Doom which was at 3,200 feet above the plateau of Gorgoroth. Some avid Tolkien readers have put together several passages from the "Lord of The Rings" book to suggest that figure of 3000+ feet. He does say something to the effect that Orthanc is like a toy in comparison. J.R.R.Tolkien does not give an exact figure for the height of Barad-Dur. I destroyed that model about two weeks ago as I neared the completion of the present 7.9 foot high Orthanc model. I had built a smaller (and less detailed) 4.5 foot high Orthanc model in 2004. The four spikes make the entire structure taller, perhaps 570 feet to the "architectural top". Tolkien gives the exact figure of 500 feet in his description of the top of Orthanc:īetween them is a narrow space, and there upon a floor of polished stone, written with strange signs, a man might stand five hundred feet above the plain." ![]() I can't believe Barad Dur is over 3000 ft though! I'm pretty sure it was open to anyone on MOCpages to contribute to.ĥ00 ft huh? That seems about right judging by the movies. Haven't you had it for a number of years? I'm sure the guys that did the LOTR layout at Brickworld last year would have loved to have included this in their landscape. I'm surprised that was the first time you displayed it. The other tower, Barad-dur, Middle Earth's only Supertall at an estimated 3,000 or more feet tall, was built by Sauron and when he was vanquished the tower went with him. Here is my 7.9 foot high more or less minifig scale LEGO version of Orthanc: The roof of the Tower of Orthanc was specific mentioned as being 500 feet above Isengard. The heights of the towers were generally not mentioned with two exceptions and both of these would meet the current definition of skyscrapers (500 feet or higher) assuming they were contiguously habitable structures from top to bottom. Some of these were destroyed but others lasted for a thousand years or more. ![]() He scattered mentions of a dozen or more towers throughout the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. ![]() Tolkien seemed to have a "thing" about towers. Including fantasy structures as part of "LEGO skylines" may be a bit of a stretch but J.R.R.
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