Great display, I love your forrest and bridge!! Really outsanding.

This is how I imagined the elven homes to look like in eragon alittle, Great job!

wow, incredible and inspiring work!

The details on this are relentless and stunning.

Teh details on this are relentless and stunning.

It annoys me so much that I saw all your beautiful MOC's but didn't realise until I went back to Perth that you made them! Would have been amazing speaking with you! Anyway seeing this masterpiece upclose was awesome, it truely is an work of art! Great work :D

Hey Eldaron, thanks for your kind words! :) Yep, getting the transitions right from wild wood (watched over by the elves) to pastoral riverbank to bustling town was my main concern in building this, so i'm very glad to hear that it works for you. The elf outpost was kind of a response to all the "elf buildings are so hard, TLG will never make a Lorien or Rivendell" stuff i kept reading on Eurobricks - in short, i thought i'd try to build some simple elven architechture to show to myself that it could be done. Now of course, i want to build more elaborate elf buildings! :D I have already gone and commented on your reply on Falath Tirion, in short, it's all good and i can't wait to see your map! :)

I really thought I already commented on this, mmm my mind must be playing tricks with me! This thing looks amazing! Just my kind of build! I love the way you actually captured different lands alltogether! And somehow you stole another one of my ideas for the tree-village! How do you keep on doing that! I guess great minds think alike right? Although my mind isn't really that great... Awesome build though! Keep it up! Oh yeah I have request for you I put in my reply on your comment on Falath Tiríon, I would appreciate it if you answered it :) -greetings, Elderon

Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm very interested to see what you come up with for your display now. :) Thanks mate and no worries! Next year i'll take better photos BEFORE i go to BV - it'll be much kinder on the eyes that way. ;) Cheers Elk Guard, glad you like it! I was worried at one point that there wasn't a clear focal point for the display, but ppl kept saying that they felt the eye moved naturally through the different areas, so i stopping obsessing over that. Thanks Timinater, it was a great con. I'm already looking forward to next year! :D Thanks Isaiah! :)

Wow, that is really beautiful. That's similar to something I've been planning for my display cabinet, but I doubt I'll be able to come close to what you've achieved. So many fantastic little details! Great mode of transport too.

Outstanding! The elves' post is truly remarkable, a pleasure to watch! Thx for sharing!

A superb display, there is so much going on, but the composition is perfect! Love all the details, well done!

Beautifully made !>.....well done

boy, wish I was there... congrats!

Those tree houses are freaking epic!

Thanks! :) Thanks so much Elio, i was pretty stoked to get the gong, it being my first display at a convention. :) (Always nerve racking showing stuff to your peers - ok, who am i kidding - my betters in just about every case!) Thanks mate, i did have a great time! It takes it out of you though - took me a week to feel like i'd fully recovered. :)

Thankyou! I can't wait for more elves in the upcoming LOTR sets, so i can flesh out a larger village! :) Thanks Caleb. :) Thanks, glad you like it! :) Thanks StoveTop Creator, glad you like it! Unfortunately there is no visible access from the ground to the underground levels - the idea is that the MOC is just a tiny strip of a complete landscape, so presumably the dwarf mine and catacombs continue on to emerge elsewhere. I did think quite a bit about access in and around the elf outpost though. :) Hee thanks! I thought that was quite fun too. :) Having the different levels also helped to maximise the limited space.

Mmm, pie... um, what were we talking about again?? ;D (Thanks Ian, glad you like my display!) Thanks Christopher! Haha, yeah, i'm only orginised with Lego, i kinda have to be otherwise i don't know how i'd find anything. The rest of my studio looks like a tip actually. Thanks Blake! I did have thoughts of your most excellent Hobbit MOC's in my head as i was building the elf village - i was aiming for a similar level of detail. :) Thanks so much Jay, much appreciated! :) Thanks mate, glad you like it! Lol at "Ripper" - you can only say that if you suffix it with "Rita", as in "Ripper Rita!" Don't ask me why, it's the law here. ;) Also, "noice" sounds more Aussie than "niiice" and if you want to sound like a true Melbournian (which is where i live), you can always throw in "grouse". Here endeth the first lesson! (ps. You don't actually have to use any of these ridiculous localisms - we are all jam donuts on the internet as someone famously said!)

Aw shucks, cheers! :) Thanks Kayne! :) Yeah, i seem to have ended up with different names between Flickr, here and Eurobricks - makes it hard to find me unfortunately. Glad you like my display though - cheers! Thanks! I nearly used up my entire collection of foliage peices with this one. :) I'll have to get some more if i'm planning more forest MOC's. (and i am!) Thanks Allan, glad you like it! :) Thanks Luke! :) I wasn't too sure about the base myself - i felt that the log bricks were a bit too regular to represent underground earth, esepcially once the dwarf mine broke up the repeating pattern on the left hand side. :/ But this is a problem with working on something for 6 months or more - your standards get higher and stuff that you made at the beginning suddenly doesn't seem to mesh that well with the later work. Oh well, i guess it's something to think about for next time! xD

Very nice details! Congratz also on your judge's choise!

Great MOC, looks like you had a good time.

Amazing amount of detail! The elf outpost is especially impressive and the cutaway is excellently done!

Well done!

Absoloutely incredible! I love the detail

JUST FABULOUS! I like the outpost best too. Did I miss it... is there a tunnel or staircase or ladder leading down to the underground below the outpost? :)

Man, that is fantastic! I love the way you have the dwarves underground and the elves up in the trees! It's great!

Very, very well done! This is more than just a slice, you've got ice cream to top it off and everything! Okay so maybe I'm not the best at playing with words, but all the same, very cool build!

Love the castle segment. But elf village in the trees was pretty cool too. You seem like a very organized person, getting all those parts packaged for Brickvention, and then sorting them back one you got home - WOW. :D Great MOC!

Great stuff Gabriel! This was really cool to see on flickr. Those tree houses are great!

What masterpiece! I love it! Awesome details! Congratulation! Regards - Jay

What masterpiece! I love it! Awesome details! Congratulation! Regards - Jay

WOW! You packed a ton into a small(ish) space. I love the tunnels and the Rivendale feel of the elf area. Not sure if I am supposed to say "Niiiiice!" or "Ripper!" Still learning Ozzie-talk.

Gorgeous; I could stare at this for hours!

Very cool Gabriel! I saw this on Flickr...someone had posted some pictures from Brickvention and I saw this build and loved it! Now I know who built it too.

This looks great! I really like the Elven/Dwarven side, it looks really nice and foresty.

nice work, like the tree house's, timber building, castle wall, I could go on. great moc.

Very nice! The base is great presentation, and I like how you have dwarves inside. The elven area looks a lot like Rivendell, and it's terrific. I also like the large castle, great work!