Lego Rivendell Is 'LOTR' Fantasy Land Made From 200K Bricks

Seventy-six years after J.R.R. Tolkien first began to imagine the Elven outpost of Rivendell for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lego enthusiasts Alice Finch and David Frank decided to build their own version using only toy bricks as their medium

The duo used 200,000 tiny bricks to create a spectacular model of Rivendell, scaled down to fit a kingdom of Elven minifigures.

Image: Flickr, Alice Finch

Frank and Finch told Mashable that they planned to build Rivendell after meeting for the first time at a Seattle Lego users group meeting in 2011. Read more...