hey guys welcome to nerd of the Rings I am super pumped about today's video because I
will be building the brand new Lego Rivendell set Lego group was kind enough to send this along so I
could build and share it with you guys today it has over 6 000 pieces and has 15 Minifigures in
it and it replicates one of my favorite and one of the most iconic locations in Middle Earth and
it had a scroll with it which I will share with you guys strangers from distant lands
and Friends of old you have been summoned here to answer the call from the last homely House
East of the sea build Rivendell as it is in men we must place our hope that's some well-placed hope
because I'm about to build the heck out of this thing well you heard the scroll let's get to it
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well here it is guys in all its glory the Lego Rivendell set it looks absolutely gorgeous I
love the color scheme that they went for this it has this awesome uh Autumn look to it uh so
let's do a tour of this thing now it consists of three pieces that fit together so we'll take
these kind of a piece at a time here we'll look at this piece first we can see it's got this cool
little uh Tower gazebo thing um at the top and we can see this is the room where Frodo wakes up
um on October the 24th and it also doubles as kind of Bilbo study where he is finishing up
writing his book and we even have a book on the table there that says there and back again so he
is writing the tale of The Hobbit and we've got some statues here on the bottom floor some Elven
statues across the front we've got this beautiful Elven architecture I really love how they use the
white pieces um and the curves to capture that Elven architecture we see in the films and then
on the bottom we have what seems to be kind of a library in Rivendell we have a nice bookcase with
a lot of books and on the back you can see there's uh one of a handful of pictures that are depicted
here and this is a seal door against Sauron that we also saw a glimpse of in the films now in the
middle section which is the biggest section we have what I would probably say is the center piece
of the whole set which is the Council of elrond set and we have the entire Council of Minifigures
that can recreate that famous scene now this part also has one of my favorite Easter eggs
in the whole set and you wouldn't even notice it unless you built it but if you lift up this
entire Council of elrond set one of the pieces that that holds this into place is the eye of
Sauron so they used the color scheme of this this little uh bracer piece here you build a
little miniature eye of Sauron and so that kind of it goes right below where the One
Ring stands on its pedestal so I absolutely love that little Easter egg that's completely hidden
and then we have a little room off to the side here that has some limbus bread on a table here
and if we spin it around we can see some more iconic aspects of Rivendell we see the statue that
holds the shards of narcel from a very important point in the story as well we also get a couple
more paintings depicting famous moments of Middle Earth and on the bottom floor we've got some more
desks and I love that they have a little legoized maps of Middle Earth it's just really super fun
to see these in Lego form and then back over on this side it can be really easy to miss some of
these Easter eggs because there's so many of them but we have another tapestry what
appears to be some Elves forging and it looks like they're pouring uh the rings of power
which is a really really cool moment again another momentous occasion in the history of Middle Earth
and finally we have the third portion of this Rivendell set which has the bridge where Aragorn
and Arwen have that iconic shot where they meet on the bridge we have a gazebo which you
might also recognize from the films that has a bench in it and then if we flip over to the side
here we actually have the area where the elves reforge narcill into Aragorn sword and Uriel
and then if we keep going we also have a little Armory here with a bunch of weapons inside
um in the depths of Rivendell here and it even has a grinding wheel so they can sharpen their blades
with this little grinding wheel inside and then of course it also has a waterfall and a stream going
through it another wonderful beautiful aspect of Rivendell that we've seen in so many depictions
and of course we can combine the three of these which gives us the completed Lego Rivendell set
and I have to say again I know I said it once already but this is a gorgeous set I absolutely
love the color scheme that they went with and Rivendell is one of those places that's unique
and uh iconic in its beauty I mean so many people say if they could live in Middle Earth they would
be in Rivendell and they did a heck of a job capturing the beauty of Rivendell in this set
and like I said we have 15 characters in this set we have Gimli and his father glowen we have
Gandalf of course Aragorn Boromir we have all four Hobbits Frodo Pippin Mary and Sam and we
also get Bilbo who incidentally has a scary face on one of his sides which I absolutely love that
they included we also get Legolas and of course Lord elrond and his daughter Arwin now something
that's really cool that I like about this set something thing new that Lego group has done is
they've given us separate pieces not only for hair versus wearing a hat or a helmet but also given us
separate pieces for whether a character is sitting or standing so Gandalf and elrond for example they
have uh bases if they're standing so you have that look that they're wearing their cloaks but
then they've also given us a second piece so if you want Gandalf say to be sitting at the Council
of elrond you can do that in a way that wouldn't be possible with the other bottom piece well there
you go guys it is Lego Rivendell and I have to say I absolutely adore this build um as will
be a surprise to no one who watches this channel I'm sure but I really hope that uh this isn't the
last that they have more uh in the works there at LEGO Group because they've done a phenomenal
job with Rivendell here and gosh I would just love to see what they could do with uh you know
other places like minus tirith or something um I I hope this isn't the last and they've got more
uh cooked up down the line of course a huge thank you goes out to the LEGO Group who sent me this
set to build and share with you guys today and if you want to get your hands on Lego Rivendell
yourself go to the link in the description it's at lego.com and you can get your own piece of
Middle Earth or several pieces actually because it's over 6 000 of them uh and you can build your
own Lego Rivendell thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time on nerd of the Rings