Building Lego Orthanc – Part 11: Here comes Gandalf!

Gandalf pays a visit to his old friend, Saruman.

He decides to go check out the sixth floor of Orthanc that is being built.

As you can see with the next two pictures, I’ve been experimenting with different ways to use the light with my Lego pictures. For the remainder of this page, you’ll see pretty much the same pictures repeated from time to time but with a different lightning. Usually one is taken “normally” and the other one is taken with the camera held upside down, so that the light of the flash comes from a different angle. I kinda like the result, it gives a dark and mysterious atmosphere to the picture, however, it’s not always possible to do it.

And suddenly, Gandalf makes a startling discovery:

“Why does Saruman keeps armors and weapons that look like they could belong to Orcs with his White Hand coat of arms on them?”

“Those staffs?! They look like Radagast’s, Alatar’s and Pallando’s!? Saruman, what have you done?”

“Sauron’s eye! Oh no, Saruman, you haven’t!”

“Hello Gandalf…
Hasn’t anyone taught you that it’s rude to snoop around when you’re visiting someone?”

“What the…?”