The starting point is simple: Offer an OMC on the Lord of the Rings theme while trying to respect the constraints that LEGO must meet to offer an official set for sale.

If you follow the blog, you may have already seen the work of Nuju Metru in the same spirit.

As part of this MOCAthalon 2012, the flower of MOCeurs is therefore found on MOCpages to offer teams of many creations on different themes, both of which on the Lord of the Rings theme presented here: The Masked Builder Siege of Gondor (above) and Legohaulic Oliphant (below).

Obviously in this MOCAthalon which brings together talented MOCeurs as well as many less experienced AFOLs, the very good rubs shoulders with the less good, but you should have a good time discovering all these creations.

Finally, here are the official visuals of the LEGO Lord of the Rings range offered by GRogall on Eurobricks. Enough to get a precise idea of ​​the contents of these long-awaited boxes ...

Note that the minifigs still dance the lambada in 3D on some close-up photos (minifigs from set 9471, 9472 and 9473). We will have to wait to see the plastic versions.

Nothing new under the sun except a few modifications on the dedicated minisite to the LEGO Lord of the Rings range: The image of Eomer's minifig has been corrected and his uncle Theoden's sheet has been added. Nothing to say about these two minifigs, they are superbly screen printed and very well equipped.

It's a little dead calm at the moment when it comes to the new LEGO Lord of the Rings range and time has to be spent .... infomaniac does it in a beautiful way with this beautiful MOC reproducing to perfection the moving scene from The Return of the King in which Frodo and his friends leave the port of Gray Havens.

The reconstruction is perfect, even in perspective. I put you below a capture of the scene of the film, you can compare everything there ...

Remember to go to the flickr gallery infomaniac, it promises some views of this MOC in behind the scenes very soon ... He should then unveil the staging as a whole and the techniques he used to reproduce the perspective.

Playmobil will attack me for the slogan, it's a foregone conclusion ...

In short, LEGO has uploaded 3 new bios on the site (or what should become the mini-site) from the Lord of the Rings range. (thank you Galaad)

So we find the Rohan Soldier, a Mordor Orc and Lurtz, the wicked Uruk-Hai. 

Just one thing, why does LEGO always feel compelled to twist the legs of these minifigs in such a ridiculous way? I'm not even talking about the torsos that find themselves in more than improbable positions. Even if they are 3D renderings, a little rigidity would not hurt, as with real minifigs, just not to make the youngest believe that their plastic characters will be able to take this kind of position ...