There have been rumors and low quality pictures circulating of the 2013 LEGO Lord of the Rings sets for quite some time now, but with the Toy Fairs behind us we can finally see what’s coming in their full glory. So let’s take a closer look. (Click images for larger view.) 🙂
➡ #79005 LEGO Lord of the Rings The Wizard Battle – small set featuring Saruman and Gandalf the Grey in their great battle. Price: $12.99
Here are the details of the set – nothing fancy, but it does include both of the great wizards as well as the Eye of Sauron.
➡ #79006 LEGO Lord of the Rings The Council of Elrond – Nice small set with some wonderful minifigures, two being exclusive to this set. Includes 4 minifigures: Elrond, Arwen, Frodo, and Gimli. Price: $29.99
Below is a close-up of the Council of Elrond. I believe the high white arches are new, as well as the leaves in dark orange. It will be worth picking up several of these for the parts and minifigs.
And here are two of the loveliest minifigures in this series: Elrond and Arwen Evenstar. Frodo is the same as before but with a new face and no cape.
➡ #79007 LEGO Lord of the Rings Battle at the Black Gate – Fly the Great Eagle high above the Black Gate of Mordor where Aragorn and Gandalf the White must distract the Eye of Sauron. Use them to stage a scene while Frodo Baggins and his friend Sam throw the One Ring into the fiery depths of Mount Doom and destroy it forever. To reach the Ring’s final destination, you must defeat the Mouth of Sauron and the Mordor Orcs positioned high in the spiked gate walls. Then breach the gate and lead the attack on the enemy! Includes a Great Eagle and 5 minifigures: Aragorn, Gandalf the White, Mouth of Sauron, and 2 Mordor Orcs. Price: $59.99
Here is a close-up of the Black Gate along with the awesome eagle and the minifigures. This will be another set worth buying a couple.
Unique to this set is the Mouth of Sauron, and here is also a picture of Gandalf the White, and Aragorn in Gondor armor.
➡ #79008 LEGO Lord of the Rings Pirate Ship Ambush – Aragorn gained the help of the King of the Dead and his army of dead soldiers. With their assistance he was able to take over the corsairs of Umbar and used their ships to help Gondor and Rohan. Includes 9 minifigures: Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, King of the Dead, two Soldiers of the Dead, Pirate of Umbar, and two Mordor Orcs. Price: $99.99
Here is a close-up of the ship – well it is a big ship, so it is hard to get all the awesome details in one picture, but it gives you an idea.
And here are some of the unique minifigures to this set; the King of the Dead, a couple of Soldiers of the Dead, and a Pirate of Umbar.
LEGO has done it again with this wave of Lord of the Rings sets. All of them are really outstanding. The only thing I would have wished for is that Soldiers of the Dead to have glow-in-the-dark helmets and armor as they were kind of glow-ish in the movie. But that is just a very minor detail. Otherwise I’m very happy with these sets. How about you? What do you think of the new Lord of the Rings sets? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below. 😉
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Oh, yes! These are awesome sets! The only problem is there is only four sets.
We need Mount Doom!
aye! that we do!
Not before a huge Minas Tirith.
Or a pelenor fields and mumikill
Mumak! Bring me a Mumak!
the helmet for the mouth of Saron looks really cool.
Yes. Yes we do. 🙂
i love those white wizards!!!!
I MUST HAVE THAT WIZARD BATTLE SET!!!
Yes, agreed!
the eagle in the Battle at the Black Gate looks sweet!!!
i don’t like the fact that it has a plate stuck to its feet. they should have made a buildable one like the ninjago dragons! still, those wings look usefull!
yeah, thats a bit of a bummer…still good though!
Is it just me or are Elrond and Aragorn both wearing two capes?
Yes, it does look like that. This is not the first time though LEGO used double capes, so it wouldn’t be out of line for LEGO to do that. 🙂
well, it”s just cape with two colors.
Is it just me or are the newer sets a bit better? I want all of these, the big ship not so much, maybe I can pick up a few army of the dead guys off bricklink. The wizard battle and the council of elrond are my favorites.
I was hoping for the tower of Isengard (Orthanc) in this wave based on a few leaks but these sets are still great. I’ll definitely be getting 2 x the black gate.
“Here are the details of the set – nothing fancy, but it does include both of the great wizards as well as the Eye of Sauron.”
Actually, that’s the Pilantir.
Yes, I know, but I didn’t want to get too technical. 😉
did anyone notice that the pirate is peter jackson.
you fun fact of the day 😉
who is Peter Jackson
Lets just say we wouldn’ t be looking at these sets if it were not for him…he directed the movies 🙂
Well any way I think the wisard battle is a little small and boring but thats the only set I don’t care for my favorite is the Pirate Ambush set
I was happy that the wizard set had as much pieces as it did. Plus, we get the Palintir, and two awesome wizards. And for me at least those yellow lamp pieces seem pretty good.
Supposedly we were also getting Treebeard and the Balrog (2 different sets), and Orthanc is coming later this year. ?
Melissa, yeah, the Treebeard and Balrog sets kind of died out as far as any news on them. Orthanc is still rumored to be a summer exclusive. 🙂
I’m very glad we are getting Saruman at last and he is in such a small set, it’s impossible to not get him. I personally love this wave of LOTR and can’t find any flaws. the only obvious annoyances are the scenes that haven’t been made into sets yet.
YES!!! I love the Council of Elrond set, my plans are to get at least two. The Pirate Ship as I mentioned before will be converted into Sao Feng’s Ship from POTC3, and I plan to Bricklink the minifigs to bring my price down, they should fetch around $35 to $45. I have to agree with what someone said,, Wave 2 of LOTR is much much batter than the 1st wave.
That was me. Council of elrond is my favorite too.
I thought there was going to be a tree beard set as well as a balrog set? Is going to be third wave of lord of the rings?
Information on those sets have completely died down. I really hope they will be available in a future wave though. 🙂
Wow, these sets look awesome! 😀
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my mom said she may get me the battle of the black gate and wizard battle. p.s. my birth day is in the summer …thats when they come out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lucky you with a summer birthday! Some of the best LEGO sets always come out in the summer! 😀
They MUST make barad-dur!
i know rhight ! thanks for that comment admin.
I HAVE ALL THE HOBBIT SETS!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀 YAY!
I LOVE these new sets! though….i really what the new star wars sets from episode 2! 🙁 hard decisions…..hard decisions….
I would go with the LOTR ones. In Star Wars, I mean, face it, it’s not like they’re not going to remake it, is it? Seriously?
It’s cool
AWESOME!!!! I love the Battle at the Black Gate!
I love all these sets. Personally, I’m glad they made the Army of the Dead minifigures like they did, because I hate glow-in-the-dark LEGO elements, especially on minifigures. I will almost certainly get one of each set, and possibly two of the Black Gate for more Mordor Orcs and a symmetrical -symetricall, symetrical?- Black Gate with two towers. The Eagle is good, and can be used for the Hobbit: Attack of the Wargs set. Who here has read the LOTR books?
Fred, good points. I’m sure many people will pick up several of the Black Gate sets. It just makes sense. I know a lot of people don’t like the eagle, but I do. I think it is nicely done. I read all of the LOTR books. They are some of my most favorite books of all time. Just couldn’t put them down! I also read The Hobbit but I don’t think I ever finished. It was just not as epic as LOTR. 🙂
This is so epic I can’t wait as soon as it comes out I’m gonna buy them
I think LEGO should make more hobbit sets. mabe be the part with trolls. p.s. Im not talking about Lord of the Rings but LEGO neds to make a LEGO rhinoceros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there will be more hobbit sets this winter 😉 probably for the next movie 🙂 But i want them to make alego elephant with the red paint in the lord of the rings 😀 btw, I love the new LOTR sets!
I want an oliphaunt too! I built one once out of spare bricks but I hated it so I took it apart and built a huge cave troll. But if Lego does come out with an opliphaunt set, it should definitely come with some Haradrim, a Rohirrim (Eowyn in Rohirrim armor would be spectacular) and they should include merry in Rohan armor as well.
A nazgul with the witch king would be brilliant with it
The ship set has some nice minifigure parts. I love these new sets!
When will they make Old Man Willow, Glorfindel, Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, Fangorn, a Balrog, a flying Nazgul, Eowyn. Some do not appear in Mr Jacksons films, does that disqualify them? I guess so.
Nice ideas though! They could be great MOCs!
I think my first one would be the Council of Elrond
They need to make battle packs like lego star wars
I would love to see a set of Barad-dur with Isildur, Elendil, but notably a Sauron action figure as opposed to an eye (though maybe a removable eye at the top of the tower would be pretty sweet. That would be awesome sauce in my opinion.