After collecting all of the Fellowship of the Ring and all of the Thorin & Company minifigures, I’ve been thinking about how to display them. There isn’t really any good set that naturally includes all of the characters. Not everyone is in Helm’s Deep (and it’s too expensive anyway) and Moria is a very crappy diorama. The upcoming Council of Elrond is way too small. So for Lord of the Rings I eventually settled on building my own.
One of my favourite scenes in the entire trilogy is the movie-only scene where Frodo drops the Ring in the snow and Boromir briefly picks it up. It’s a great character moment for Sean Bean and a beautifully filmed scene overall. So I ordered a bunch of white slopes and set to work on recreating the slopes of Caradhras. It turned out that I could have used a bit more of each, so it’s a very unstable build, but when left alone on a shelf it looks fine.