I’ve all ready put a Mines of Moria Lego set at the top of my Christmas list (is it strange for a 33 year old man to want a Lego set for Christmas? Screw you inner adult! I’ll never give into your loafer wearing side mouth chuckling ways!) but somehow I don’t think the official set could hold a candle to this EPIC fan made Lego set by LEGOManiacs and official saints of blockdom Blake Baer and Jack Bittner. High res grabs are viewable at Blakes Flickr page here.

In BONUS Middle Earth news Peter Jacksons recently confirmed trilogy has been renamed. Where once it was the two part The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the second film will now be The Desolation of Smaug with There and Back Again becoming the third film title. Alongside the main Hobbit story of Bilbo, Thorin and the other Dwarves Peter Jackson plans to wind in a story mentioned in the appendix of the middle earth books about Aragorn and Gandalf having a Scooby Doo adventure chasing a Necromancer who turns out to be a weakened reincarnation of Sauron, the final destruction of his physical self in this story leads into him becoming a big scary eye in Lord of the Rings. Any other film maker would have me nervous about these expansions and changes, but the Jacksons, Fran Walsh and the rest of their Kiwi team have earned my ever lasting trust after the Lord of the Rings. I almost find it impossible to believe they could do any wrong.

Also here's a new pic of Thorin wielding Orcrist, the elven made Orc killing sword. I imagine there's going to be a lot of junior geeks wielding plastic versions of this awesome looking sword round christmas time.