I'm glad they made this fig. I'm also happy that they are expanding the orcs somewhat. Makes me wonder what set it will end up in. I really like the new colored lightning piece. I remember some one suggesting that a while back. Who would have been so "Quick" to suggest that?
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Probablly 2009 will be my worst year in my life due to the money i will spend for all these beauties.
Now Orcs in many stories and games came from Elves.
In Tolkien books even in the third age where the story of the one ring happens, Saruman and Sauron breed Uruk Hai and Orcs. But not from tortured elves. The book say they come from the ground.
Now ELVES why i have a feeling that we will see elves and new weapons on 2009?
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Uruk-Hai only come from the ground in PJ's movies.... Tolkien in his books never states this. Pretty good summary here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk-hai
I tend to think that half-orcs and Uruk-Hai are different groups but his reasoning is sound enough. Either way they were not breed from the ground.
I am hoping the elves do not look like wimps as is lately been done to them in so much fantasy. I hope they come out in forest sets with lots of bows because I'd like to augment my number of bows and quivers in general.
It will be a good year for Castle Lego I think but I am sure it will be a costly one. Depending the cost of the set with the Troll/orc female I'd like to pick up a few and modify them.
AmperZand wrote:As I'm trying to maximise variety, do you think it would be OK if I replaced the female orc shaman/queen's hood with the hair from this minifig:
Am I philistine for even thinking of doing this?
You aren't a philistine for doing that, but it doesn't look very good. Oddly most of the dark red hair looks good on the orcs. The dark red matches their eyes and kind of makes the color "pop". I have the dark red long hair, from the merman set, on one of mine and it looks good. You might try something similar with the hag.
Heir of my beloved black falcons i read about the ground in one the letters of Tolkien. its one of the rare books that Tolkien wrote some extra things about the history of Middle Earth.
But its being years i am not entirelly sure about that.
The Rage of Gods will soon appear again on this earth and Twillight Knights will walk again the Grounds of Durandar
Ardohoth wrote:
Now ELVES why i have a feeling that we will see elves and new weapons on 2009?
Hinckley from eurobricks said one of the designers said no Elves next year. Though that's triple hearsay now, I think its probably accurate, since the trolls seem to be continuing.
I was at Brickcon and asked one of the people from lego if there would be elves next year ,she said no,however lego has done this before like they did with Pirates ,as I recall.
AmperZand wrote:As I'm trying to maximise variety, do you think it would be OK if I replaced the female orc shaman/queen's hood with the hair from this minifig:
Am I philistine for even thinking of doing this?
You aren't a philistine for doing that, but it doesn't look very good. Oddly most of the dark red hair looks good on the orcs. The dark red matches their eyes and kind of makes the color "pop". I have the dark red long hair, from the merman set, on one of mine and it looks good. You might try something similar with the hag.
Josh
Thanks, Athos and Josh.
Josh,
That's a very good idea but I've already got the long, dark red hair on the merman (-maid?) and on the undead queen from the penultimate chess set. So I'm a bit reluctant to use that hair piece again.
What do you think of the hair from this minifig instead?
Any other alternatives?
Anyone?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Amps
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