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- June 4, 2024 will see the discharge of Lego’s Barad-dûr set – 5471 items, and contains minifigures of Sauron, Sam, Frodo, Gollum, orcs, the Mouth of Sauron, and extra.
- The tower options 4 ranges, and can function a dungeon, armory, forge, orc eating corridor, throne room, and light-up Eye of Sauron.
- Buy from June 1-3 for Lego Insider members, June 4 for all others; there’s a bonus set with Fell Beast and Nazgul rider minifigure whereas provides final
You could have to attend till August for the next season of Amazon Prime Video’s The Rings of Power, however Lego has simply the factor for Lord of the Rings followers with time on their arms. A 5471-piece set of Barad-dûr, the darkish lord Sauron’s fearsome tower stronghold, is coming this June. Primarily based on the tower’s look in Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings motion pictures, the set is a part of Lego’s collector-aimed Icons collection.
The 32-inch-tall set consists of a four-level tower; these 4 ranges could be separated, and respectively function the bottom and the gate; a dungeon, an armory, and a forge; an orc eating corridor (the place meat could or might not be again on the menu, boys), and a throne room. The entire thing is topped with a battery-powered light-up Eye of Sauron. It is going to additionally embody quite a few minifigures, together with Sauron himself, the hobbits Sam and Frodo, Gollum (soon to be the star of his own movie), a number of orcs, and the Mouth of Sauron, who was seen solely in a deleted scene in the finished film, and was performed by style legend Bruce Spence. The set will retail for $459.99 USD, and could be ordered on Lego.com. Mmebers of Lego’s Insider buyer loyalty program will get an early shot on the set, from June 1 to June 3, whereas everybody else must wait till June 4. Purchases between June 1 and June 7 will include a bonus set of a Fell Beast with a Nazgul rider minigufure, whereas provides final.
What’s Barad-dûr?
First showing within the first guide of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, Barad-dûr is an immensely tall tower within the desolate land of Mordor, and serves because the headquarters of the evil overlord Sauron. It was initially constructed in Center-Earth’s Second Age, the period depicted in The Rings of Energy; the present’s second season may depict its construction. It was destroyed when Sauron was initially defeated, however was reconstructed when Sauron started his second rise to energy, circa the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not a bodily entity, Sauron occupied the tower, which was capped by his monumental, flaming, all-seeing eye. The tower was maintained by Sauron’s darkish energy; when Sam and Frodo succeeded of their quest to hurl the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom, Barad-dûr crumbled into rubble.
That is the second monumental Lord of the Rings set from Lego’s collector-aimed Icons line. Final 12 months noticed the discharge of Rivendell, an elaborate set that included all 9 members of the Fellowship of the Ring.
Lego’s Lord of the Rings Barad-dûr set might be launched on June 4, 2024. Keep tuned to Collider for future updates.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Whereas Frodo and Sam edge nearer to Mordor with the assistance of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand towards Sauron’s new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
