LOTR Beneficial to Pirates?

[Captainmorgan]

As some of you may know, a while ago pictures were posted of the summer 2013 LEGO sets. LOTR has a pirate or Corsair ship. If you have seen or see the pictures, do you want this set and what will you use it for? I will be getting it.

(Image from the video game)

Edited January 19, 2013 by Admiral Croissant
Image added

[Grimmbeard]

Hopefully I'll be getting it. Its a cool design and as long as it doesn't look look like ninjago I'm fine with it.

[Captain Heineken]

LOTR has some interesting torsos, which fit perfectly to pirates.

The ship, well I have to take a look at it, hopefully it's not too childish, but the LOTR theme isn't like this anyway.

[Ridge Montante]

I'll most likely be getting it. I missed out on the black pearl and the queen annes revenge because of my dark ages. So I need a good pirate ship. Hopefully it is a good one.

[Hey Joe]

Stupid question time; was there a pirate ship in LOTR? I don't remember one at all.

[TheBoyWonder]

I think it's the corsair ship.

[ShaydDeGrai]

Stupid question time; was there a pirate ship in LOTR? I don't remember one at all.

They didn't get much screen time in the movie (a bit more on DVD but still underplayed). The Corsairs of Umbar were privateers acting as the unofficial navy of Umbar, a rival of Gondor. The books describe them as having over fifty capital ships, nearly a thousand other large vessels and smaller ships 'beyond number.' Their primary mission (as far as Umbar was conserned) was to ruin Gondors water based trade routes to erode the kingdom economically since Gondor's defenses and standing army had proven itself too strong for Umbar to defeat in open (land-based) battle. The fleet included genuine warships that were paid a bounty from the state for sinking any armed escort craft, and many smaller craft that were allowed to keep anything they could plunder from ships and ports in Gondor's waters. In addition to attacking ships and convoys, they also raided Gondor's navy yards, destroying ships under construction or sinking them as soon as they were launched to prevent Gondor from being able to amass a fleet capable of repelling them.

In the books, a major contributor to Denathor's madness comes from his looking into the palantir and seeing a vision of the corsairs invading en masse. The movie glosses over a lot of this and makes it seem like it's nearly all about the death of Boromir and his failed relationship with Faramir - which was certainly a tipping point, but it was the vision of thousands of the enemy black sailed ships arriving with reinforcements at a time when Minas Tirith was already being battered by the forces of Mordor that caused Denethor to lose all hope and ultimately go mad. (His vision doesn't include the discovery that Aragorn has already defeated/scattered the privateers with the help of the Oathbreakers and that the 'reinforcements' he is bringing are there to save Minas Tirith, not destroy it - Denethor just sees the black sails and assumes the worst.

My take on one of the Corsairs' capital ship can be found here but I'm certain TLG's offering will be more of a mini-figure centric, 'tubbier' version. Still, we should get an official lanteen-rigged boat out of the deal.

Edited January 19, 2013 by ShaydDeGrai

[Hey Joe]

They didn't get much screen time in the movie (a bit more on DVD but still underplayed).

Ok thanks. I used to devour SciFi and Fantasy in my teens but I never could get into 'The Hobbit' (and LOTR by extension) for some strange reason.

The extended DVDs I scored (quite cheaply here in China ) were a little TOO extended, maybe I slept through that part.

Great movies though, I definitely didn't sleep at all in the cinema.

Joe

[Grimmbeard]

Fun fact: Peter Jackson himself had a cameo as a corsair pirate in the movies, or at least the extended versions.

[Sebeus I]

Though I'm very curious I'll probably won't get it, I can imagine it will be quite costly .

Either way, I think it will definitely fit within the pirate genre.

Edited January 19, 2013 by Sebeus I

[JeKyll]

Video of the minifigures and some pics of the ships

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_dYfqVX8wA

[IAmWillGibson]

Hrrmm. Maybe I can convince one of you Pirate lads who also happen to have no interest in A] LOTR figures or B] makin' profits to sell me the three ghost figures and Peter Jackson from this set on the cheap.

It's a neat looking boat, and a new design for LEGO ships from what I can recall, but I know it's gonna be far too rich [and space-consuming] for my blood.

[Grimmbeard]

The ship looks pretty good, but there doesn't seem to be a lot there (at least from that image). Not much to say on the figs, but I like the new dead soldiers.

Other than that it was a good vid and the music was sick

Edited January 24, 2013 by Grimmbeard