Well done Lee. This is so beautiful and well designed. Great detailing all over, the close ups are candy to ones eyes.

That's cool as!

My Gosh, how many pieces are in there? Great job, I love it!!!

Well deserved attention with the MotD. Beautifully done.

Congrats on MotD! Incredible MOC!

What about the Balrog? You can't have the mines of Moria without the Balrog...

It's...so...BEAUTIFUL!!!

One word comes to mind - exquisite! This is a fantastic MOC. I love LOTR and this makes me want to pull out the DVD's and watch them again. Great work, your sculpting is truly beautiful!

I watched the first LOTR yesterday and you have recreated this scene perfectly- 1,000,000/10! Good job, keep up the good work! :D

cool.

fantastic! a worthy MOTD! great rockwork and pillars, etc!

waw!! Die mijn is echt heel groot !!!Hoe groot is hij precies ?????

Congratulations on MOTD Doctor Jones! Oh, and it was nice meeting you at Brickworld too.

amazing how long it took you to build this miracle :O

A truly fabulous build. Most MOTDs never usually look particularly interesting, and I rarely view them. This, however, looked great from the main photo, and I was sort of 'saving' it for later. (I didn't actually view it 'til now) It is brilliant, great architecture. Truly worthy of MOTD! :)

a well deserved MOTD well done

a well deserved MOTD! although i saw this before... But such MOCs could really be shown more often !! AWESOME JOB you did!

Had to google that one. I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you are not pulling my leg - Lord Of The rings. Thanks for the kind words - you are missed at BW to be sure. Hopefully this year. Thank you. Thank you as well. I don't actually know. It is 96 studs by 288 studs not including the mountains. I had ordered about $10k of old grey plus bley slopes for the build and used about 70% of the bricks and tiles (a big chunk of the cost was tiles). Thanks for all the kind words, and sorry for my absence from the pages. I do miss it here, but I have been to busy with real life to devote much time to hobbies. Lee

No Words for the majesty of this incredible MOC.

A well-deserving MOTD, well done. The scale of this blows me away.

Nice i really like all your detail and the piliers

My goodness man, you're on fire! Is this even Lego? It looks way too spectacular to describe! Wow! That is Epicness in a bottle!

I can just second, what Mark said! It was an honor to be part of it! - K.

True masterpiece! Very nice work & great part usage. Congratulation! :)

Great representation!!

Many impressive aspects to this build, detail, scale, but to me it's the overall atmosphere of that scene that you really captured. Congrats on MOTD!

. . . I'm speechless.

This is simply stunning. I'm shocked that I've never seen it before. The rocks look awesome! Some of the best I've seen. The pillars look very accurate, but it is all of the architecture that really sets this MOC out from the crowd. Great work, and congrats on the MOTD.

Really cool to see this again, Lee! The scale and the layout still blows my mind, and I'll always keep a place in my heart for that incredible colab. "A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

amazing stuff, must have been a lot of fun to build

That IS a lot of details! What is LOTR?

Wow, amazing! The details are great and it's huge! Nice job.

Purely amazing! The detail is excellent! Great work with the contrasting grey pieces! 5/5 :D

Wow it's so big and has so much detail! Congrats on a well deserved MOTD!

All I gotta say is "Mines Of Moria, ha! More like 'Mind Of Mencia!'"

If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it. All hail Master Jones!

This is truly amazing! The scale is incredible and everything is very well built!

It's a shame the word "epic" has been diluted by too much ironic usage in recent years, because that's the only word to describe something like this. This is a truly epic LEGO creation.

That is crazy! Good job!

Just HOW huge is that? Did you do that on your own? HOLY CRAP Lee! That just boggles the brain! when do you sleep...AWESOME young man!

Insane!

Wow, this is fantastic!

nice (as usual) and very accurate i like the pillars and do the door(S) open? well my favorite 3 people (beings whatever you call them) are the big 'baby troll' called a rock troll i think and Gandalf plus gollum

WOW awesome this is so cool

WOW awesome this is so cool

Awesome build! I love how the jagged rock walls turned out, very realistic!

My brain farts in meekness at the sheer sight of LEGO LotR epic perfection.

Where in the blessed universe does one get SO much LEGO?! =D Stunning MOC!

Where did iyou get so mony LEGO-pieces?

Totally awesome moc. Well done, I love this

There are people in this world who has al the Lego they need. Unlimmited..... If you ask me you are one of them. This is truly amazing and so f@€&king good that i have no words anymore. And i was thinking that i have à lot of Lego..... Wel i must think again. Great detail and THE best Moc ever..... Do i need to say more..... I can't wait what your NeXT project will be. WOW.....

Rock detail is great!

Awesome work, really nice and detailed. I asume that you found all those grey pieces in special sets which contain only one kind of piece. For example a set which has only 2x2 grey parts. Where can I find such sets?

All the details are awesome. My eyes hurt from staring for 10 minutes at the rockwork.

this is HUGE! brilliant details!

Uh...wow, stunning, and absolutely incredible! That about sums it up.

omfg.

Awesome set. Lots of playtime!

great!! a very very good job!! I like it!!

Amazing MOC! How much money was spent on this!?!?!

This is far more impressive when seen from the inside. Titanic!

This is one of the best in the display, and that rockwork is what I strive for. >Eric

The figs aren't very good but the Mine is amazing! Incredible!

Overwhelming amount of detail and scope with this build. The pillars are great just by themselves, clever use of the barrels. Congrats!

What a great level of details!

wow, what an amazing piece or art. I am personally a huge lego and lotr fanatic. Would you do me the favor of looking at my base and commenting on anything or leaving any tips? -BK http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/254813#reviews

Staggeringly Monumental, Obviously your a professional lego builder !.....With such a scale Lego really is an appropriate building tool....well done....

INSERT FRANTIC POCKET GOD OMGING HERE! This is fantastic!

SO MUCH GRAY!!! ^.^

Whoa...

epic... simply epic...

I won't be able to shut my mouth ever again. There is no appropriate number of minifigure heads to rate this.

Incredible details! The grebbling is almost natural, and the battle scene is also excellent. Congratulations.

Most impressive build. Must have taken a lot of time and pieces.

I have to say that I am not a fan of LOTR but this is crazy! This is beautiful. The texture, the build. I am speechless!

I loved all the texture and detail you created hidden amongst the monochrome, the way shadows formed to enhance the details and shapes on the walls and the subtle pattern on the tiling floor, the half finished carvings and the black entrance-ways enhancing depth and perspective... it is full with optical illusions, you are not only an artist but a magician.

I can't tell the diffrence between the movie and the lego. Probally the best (Or top 10) of all lego I have seen in my entire life. Awsomeness.

Like I said on BW: It's just awesome, the halls and pillars are staggering! Love the misty mountains with their white tops! - K.

Insanly awesome!

Ya know, sometimes I think your volume of brick is so stunning that people forget to appreciate your considerable building prowess - this is terrific, Lee!!! Love the various column designs, the wall textures...and the arch between the hall and the chamber...beautiful! What a fantastic addition to the colab. I was sorry not to have seen it in person. Although my true disappointment was not getting a chance to see you and the family. It's the people that really make this hobby, after all. Anyway, brilliant work, my friend!

Amazing! The piece count, the size, the details, architecture, rock work! Beautiful all together. :)

The sheer amount of old grey bricks is fantastic, but how you 'formed' them into this piece of art is simply amazing.

You have a Balrog in your drawer? You should post it, I really want to see how it turned out.

2x2x8 support pieces with lattice work on the sides. In a drawer, he didn't make it to the show due to logistical issues around building the bridge scene. Thank you Dave, that has to be one of the most thoughtful comments I have ever read. Another lovely comment - thank you. Thank you sir - your help was, and is, greatly appreciated.

Gorgeous! The sheer scale of the MOC is shown elsewhere, but your pictures help reveal some of the awesome details on this.

WOW!!!

You have too many legos. No... well, you can never have too many legos, but it still amazes me how many bricks you have that you are able to separate your grays from blays for different parts of the build. Incredible.

holy jebus!!!!!

Amazing!

TOTALLY EPIC. The rock walls are my favorite part.

Random teens including me! Glad I could be a small part in the layout. This build was excellent, and so was the layout.

Awesome!

Is it wrong for me to say "Yeah, but it looks way better in person!" Okay, okay, it is a REALLY great build. Dr. Jones, you did a tremendous job on this!

O_O !!!!! This is huuuuuge beautiful !!!!!

Incredible work. Those columns are really glorious to look upon, although I do wish I could have seen it in person. May I ask where the grille-like pieces that are incorporated into some of the larger columns are from? I seem to remember seeing them in other places, but can't for the life of me remember what they're from. Excellent job on this, this is getting bookmarked.

Amazing skill, vision, and talent.

how did ya build it? if there were a"too good button,I TOTALLY choose it.

Those pillars are phenomenal! The whole thing is like a sea of grey and the only thing breaking up the sea are all the wonderful details. One question; where's the Belrog?

Massive! I would have loved to have seen it in person.

Sure, anybody can throw a bunch of money into buying monstrous quantities of bricks, but only an artist can turn them into something as epic and detailed as this. You captured some great shots, really bringing us into the model and making it feel like we were walking through the mines. Did you make the Balrog as well? That is one of the builds that I have yet to see any shots of up close...~H

Wow, this is truly an incredible build... amazing job!

The details almost get lost in the sheer size of this beast. You sir are truly a master. Now then, time to go take care of that thing I told you about a minute ago... ~ Chris.

Lee, It's wonderful to see the build through the architect's eyes. You showed detail in the pictures that I missed seeing it in person. The scale and detail you've managed to accomplish is very impressive. I really appreciated the way you talked about the forced creativity of a limited palate, now you know what the rest of us have to deal with :) I assume the Bricklink link is to show that there aren't anymore old grey elements left? Haha, jk. Outstanding work, it was an honor to view this in person. ~Dave