For the video games, see Lego The Lord of the Rings (video game) and Lego The Hobbit (video game). Lego The Lord of the Rings and Lego The Hobbit are two Lego themes based on the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films by Peter Jackson.[3] These are in turn based on the fictional world Middle-earth from the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien. The first preliminary pictures of the upcoming sets were shown on December 20, 2011.[5] Sets from the themes are currently available to buyers in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. The first wave of sets for The Lord of the Rings were released in May 2012, while the sets for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey were released in December 2012. A second wave of sets for The Lord of the Rings was released in 2013 with sets for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug were released in December 2013. A third wave of sets from The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies was released on October 15, 2014. Dead Men of Dunharrow[16]
King of the Dead[16] Necromancer of Dol Guldur[15] Bain (son of Bard) A video game titled Lego The Lord of the Rings was released on November 13, 2012. A board game made from Lego bricks and figures titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released as item No. 3920 in 2012.[18] It was announced that there will be a Lego The Hobbit video game which was released on April 8, 2014. It covers the first two Hobbit films unlike Lego Star Wars: The Video Game and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game which contained the new film before its actual release. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae afLego The Hobbit 79017 The Battle of The Five Armies Brand New / RetiredBefore you can vote for cool new LEGO sets, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: You're currently signed in to LEGO ID as . Would you like to sign in to LEGO Ideas with this LEGO ID?
LEGO Ideas is designed for older builders. We’re sorry, but based on the birth date we have on file for you, this means we can't let you have an account here. Create and Share Galleries as a place to share your models with other LEGO builders like you. Are you sure you want to log out of LEGO Ideas?Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Do you want to be the boss of Vice City?Dear Bricks of the Dead enthusiasts, I’ve taken a small break from the Lord of the Rings sets and today we will be having a look at one of smaller The Hobbit – the Desolation of Smaug sets, this one is the army builder set for The Hobbit line and is titled Mirkwood Elf Army, so lets see what we got. In this set we have two main bags, a Warg in its own bag, one instruction manual and a loose tan plate. Not really much else to say other than it is well packed Lego standard. First bag along with the loose tan plate gives us the bits to build up one end of the wall that is integrated with a tree and platform in the upper reaches.
The play feature on this is pretty well hidden. There is a flat hinged piece on top of the platform that sits underneath the upper canopy of the tree, idea is that an elf warrior stands on the platform and when ready you can hit the catapult mechanism. This makes the upper canopy flip to one side as it is hinged as well and launches said warrior straight towards those pesky attacking orcs, both my daughters (aka assistants) thought this was awesome, and even I thought it was great that this play feature isn’t obvious when looking at the set overall. There is also a small weapon rack that includes a well placed statue microfig to give it that elvish feel and a technic pin so you can attach it to the main builds. The second bag is all about building a wall to keep those annoying orcs out of the forest. The wall is a pretty standard build with some minor tree branches and foliage integrated into the wall itself, there are also a couple of shields that are attached that have a very cool pattern on them that remind me of bugs.
Play feature on the wall is the almost obligatory “missile” in the middle of it. Even my assistants don’t find these that great. What the older assistant did like in this bag was the scaling ladder with the hooks on top; she had minifigs climbing up and down till those pieces of plastic were puffed out! This completes the build and we attach the wall to the tree platform by way of technic pins and have our completed set, just add minifigs. We will start with the bad guys this time, because hey, bad guys need love to don’t they? With this set we get a Warg which is exactly the same as the other ones released so far and is brown in color, and in his saddle is one of the newer style Gundabad Orcs sporting the cool spiky shoulder armor, well detailed print armor on legs and torsos, and single face printing on the head. He also gets a spear while his identical foot slogging mate drew the short straw and not only misses out on the Warg to carry him, but gets no shoulder armor and a sword to do the dirty work with.
Onto the besieged defenders we get three elven warriors who are identical in facial expressions and armor. The differences come from the accessories they are kitted out with; we have two archers with hoods, bows and quivers, and a melee elf who has a hair piece and a dagger. Leading the defenders is no other than the king of Mirkwood himself, Thranduil. He comes with a dual face head, a rubberized head piece that has his crown built in, and a red cloak. I really like the print on his torso; in particular the clasp at the top as it is well framed by the hair and seems to catch my eye when I look at the minifig. He is given a sword to defend his realm with and he is ready to go. The ladder is too high for the wall, or the wall is too low for the ladder. Either way when you look at the photo below you will see that the ladder isn’t very steep when against the wall, and the effect is that the orc is crawling up, rather than climbing up the ladder. Take one extension out of the ladder and it pretty much works as intended, given that the box art has the ladder on the wall it seems strange that they would give us the extra extension, ah well, chuck it in the MOC pile.