June 2023 1st Round Vote is CLOSED

[Michael O'Brien]

We had a delay due to insufficient ideas being submitted, but eventually we reached the required amount of seven.
Boromir was excluded as it was a recent winner that has already been sculpted but not yet released.

You have one vote and this poll will only show the current status after you submit your vote. This is to give all ideas an even chance of support. The final round will be next Tuesday and we will run that until July 3rd.

Don't forget to include comments on why you support an idea to help convince others to support your idea. Every vote counts.

[ddaines]

Crouching Troll (turned to stone/petrified)

Having received the excellent MZ705: SAMWISE GAMGEE™ with Petrified Troll, I was very impressed with the detail that the resin process has allowed, therefore, and for a bit of 'style' continuity, I would like to suggest the troll that was caught crouching.

I do realise that this would also be a 're-do' of an existing figure (albeit petrified this time), but as some collectors have missed out on the original troll three-some maybe there would be some mileage in having them in stone-form.

[Axel]

Boromir at Osgiliath

Boromir, during or directly after his first conquest of Osgiliath.

In victorous pose, battled, and wearing heavy Gondorian armour. This will be after Saurons forces first conquest of Osgiliath in 2974, years before the War of the Ring.

[Michael O'Brien]

It looks like we are not remotely near to the minimum amount of ideas this month so we will extend the list until we do.

[gilgaladtolkien]

The Ringwraith of Dol Guldur.

[olivier]

Wainrider man with whip

The appendices mentioned incursions of the Wainriders in Gondor from 1851 TA, for almost a century.
The appendices A mentionned that the Wainriders were a people, or confederacy, of Men from the East. They journeyed in great wagons, and their chieftains rode chariots in battle.
In the Unfinished Tales, "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan", it states that they camped in fortified camps of wagons. Their young women were also trained in arms, and they, along with old men and youths, stayed behind, able to defend their homes from attackers.
The MZ670 Wainrider girl mounted is the very first miniature representing this people (2018 December votes).
To complete, I propose another Gypsy member : a man this time.
He is bearded and has long hair. His head could be covered with a bandana tied behind and he could wear a thick leather bolero, a wide fabric belt and boots. He could be armed with a whip that he wields in front of him and have a short scimitar passed through the belt.

[twrich]

We still are missing a figure that was important in helping the Army of Rohan reach Minas Tirith to aid Gondor.

Woses Drummer

King Theoden and Company were unlikely to make it to Gondor without the aid of the Woses. Drummers helped send signals to the Rohanians as they used an old path to come through the Woods in full force.

This a single figure version of my previous suggestion. I envision the Wose Drummer to be standing behind a waist-high, wooden, barrel-shaped drum with a hide and sinew covering. Woses are gnarly limbed and hunched over somewhat, even at a younger age, so the drummer would crouch over the barrel, while still able to strike it with shorter, clubby arms.

[gondolin]

Elladan at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields

A companion piece to the Christmas 2022 Elrohir figure.

[Michael O'Brien]

WE are still one idea short

[Haldir Rhovanion]

GOBLIN HAND COLLECTOR

A large Goblin war chief from the Misty Mountains. He would be dressed in relatively good Orc mail armour and would have a fancy helm with horns or crest. He would have a large curved blade, a wide and heavy falchion, and he would be arrayed in a collar of severed hands of Men, Dwarves and other Goblins. The figure would stand in a proud position, shoulders back, to display his collar and his blade as a way of threatening bystanders.

This could work well as a single piece, a leader of a warband or even in a diorama of a duel or an Orcish scene.

[Michael O'Brien]

Chris has rejected Boromir as it was a winner in December. Please submit more ideas.

[Gildor]

I suggest Finduilas of Dol Amroth

(She was the mother of Boromir and Faramir, wife of Denethor and also sister of prince Imrahil, she died young at the age of 38, some say because she was in sorrow longing for the sea she had left to marry Denethor and after her death Denethor became to change as he loved her deeply... )