LEGO's Next Precious: LEGO Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit

[jonutah]

A few set ideas for The Hobbit:

1. Bilbo's Hobbit Hole
2. The Unexpected Party
3. The Shire
4. Stone Troll Capture
5. Barrel Escape
6. Smaug
7. Gollum's Cave
8. Lake Town

[madLEGOman]

From Bricks to Bag End... or From Bricks to Bagginses. really glad they're making the new hobbit movies if for nothing else but to give lego an excuse to go back to the license after mega bloks did such a horrible job during the original releases

[Andi]

can't wait and look forward so much :-)
I'm hoping for this since my Dark Age ended

[Draykov]

[cas]

Hopefully it doesn't mean will see sets similar to hero factory and the super heroes figure sets. It would be awesome if we got something similar to the new ninjago figure packs or collectable minifigs.

[ninnymuggins]

Hmmm more Elves, Trolls, and Dwarfs, bring it!

[lividus]

Oh man. I'm screwed - between this, Heroes and SW, I won't have a paycheque.

[legomason]

Legolas indeed.

[onions]

i'm gonna guess the 'action figures' are the hero factory / constraction figures.

[ablake90]

Hey guys im brand new here, been visiting the site since i got back into lego 6 months ago, had to join.
I'm so excited for this new license! If they do give us the trilogy sets im hoping to build an uruk hai army to me they are to LOTR what stormtroopers are to star wars. I wonder if they will try to give us a Balrog or even more ambitious a Mumak?

[Marty]

This is along time coming but hopefully worth the wait.
I would also hope Lego puts forward a competition or asks for buyers input on these sets as it's such a good theme it would be a shame to muck it up?
Finally, I'd be interested to see what the one ring would be like.

My precious......

The figures would be worth the wait.

[GroudonMan]

[lostone]

I take it back, someone at lego does listen.
I always hoped for this to be a theme, now just have to keep wishing for them to do startrek.

[shoggoth666]

This is most welcome news indeed! Great news for collectors and Lego will generate some serious profit on this line, I'm starting to save up now!

[DemoGoblin]

Only drawback is the One Ring will have to be as big as in the picture, doughnut sized!

[JD4M]

[Ersh777]

OH YES!!! This is the best thing to happen to LEGO since Lego Star Wars came out! I will be a collector and a fan of these sets! I dreamed about this almost a decade ago when the LotR films came out...(was bummed some knock off building block company got the license at first)...now LotR Lego sets are going to be reality!

[onions]

[shoggoth666]

This line could spawn some magnificent UCS models.

[ka.lego]

Yup, huge news. Many of us have been chattering about this for a while now over at , and it got a little hectic IMHO with people going back and forth about whether or not it would happen. Lo and behold...

Exciting stuff for many reasons. As a fan of Tolkien AND Jackson's films, I'm thrilled (and feeling vindicated...been rooting for a while). As an AFOL im excited for the new pieces and for what I'm hoping proves to be a win for the company. Seems like they could use a little dusting off after LEGO Universe which I remember them saying was their biggest single investment in a product. Ouch. Maybe licensing deals of popular franchises are a safer bet. I hope it works out, because I'm not entirely sure how PoP and PoTC did, and with HP lacking in future books or films to cross promote, they could use a new big licensed theme. Its not like LEGO's in danger of disappearing, but ive been around enough business people to imagine the pressure they must've been feeling. (Seems like theyve been kinda making all sorts of wild moves woth CUUSOO and that new social networking site.) Whatever...in the end it's huge news.

Check out that link to the EuroBricks forum thread for info about confirmed set titles and numbers.