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Lego Barad-dûr revealed: Sauron’s dark tower from The Lord of the Rings is $460

A dark tower fit to stand against Lego’s $500 Rivendell.

Tolkien nor Peter Jackson gave us so much as a glimpse inside its walls, so Lego had free rein to imagine the interior... and fill it with Easter eggs. For $459.99, €459.99, or £399.99, the new playset set not only comes with a glowing Eye of Sauron (thanks to a Lego light brick) and a pair of ominous mechanically operated front doors, but you also get a dark throne that opens up to reveal a secret room for the Palantir... ...plus a number of secreted-away references like Frodo’s stolen mithril coat, a hidden map, and a tiny spider to represent Shelob.

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