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Artist Patrick Acton used over 420,000 matchsticks to create this model of Minas Tirith from “Lord of the Rings”.

Acton’s version of Minas Tirith is one of his biggest and most detailed matchstick models yet, as he has constructed his rendition of the tremendously ancient city that Tolkien says “appears hewn from the rock of Mount Mindolluin” in the White Mountains. Tolkien’s fortress city is said to tower 700 feet above the Pelennor Fields in Middle Earth’s land of Gondor. Acton’s matchstick version of the seven-level city was started in 2007 and took nearly three years when completed in February 2010. The Minas Tirith model contains hundreds of city buildings and is topped with the Citadel, the Tree of Gondor, and the White Tower of Ecthelion.

Comments

[testa-dura.livejournal.com]

I don't know if that's sad or cool. All right - I think that's pretty cool :-D Which I guess makes me the sad one.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I love models like this -- I wish I had the space to safely (i.e., cat-proof) try it. :)

[boltonia.livejournal.com]

OMG that's absolutley gorgeous!

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Isn't it though? ::drools:: I absolutely adore it.

[dazedpuckbunny.livejournal.com]

Ooo speaking of LOTR didja know that David Tennant, Dr. Who 10 is gonna be playing Thranduil in the Hobbit? At least it's "rumored"...but yay if it's true!

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Oh very cool! :)

Are you coming home son? I miss you! ::makes sad puppy eyes::

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Coming home *soon*, I meant. ::facepalm::