Lord of the Rings Statue Orthanc 18 cm

Looming over the lands like a dark giant; a solitary figure of commanding grandeur, inspiring awe and wonder both for its purpose and its construction, stood the inimitable tower: Orthanc. At the heart of the Ring of Isengard was a great tower of polished black stone. Hewn centuries ago from a monolith of dark rock with limbs long forgotten, the Tower of Orthanc stood sharp and hard against a field of green trees and snow-capped mountains. In the last years of the Third Age it was the home of the Wizard Saruman, and in its dark halls he spent his days studying the ways of his enemy, that he might better understand and ultimately defeat him. Saruman kept a Palantír; one of the ancient seeing stones of Númenor. Many long hours the Wizard would gaze into this magical sphere, watching Sauron, believing himself wise and powerful and resistant to the devices of his enemy. Yet in truth Saruman's pride and folly led him willingly into Sauron's trap, for he fell in love with the Dark Lord's arts and coveted his power. Through the stone, his mind was twisted into a vassal of Mordor, and Orthanc, once a place of learning and beauty, was ravaged by Orcs, now a place of terror. Gone were the trees; tinder to feed the fires of industry that burned in the pits around the tower, and the plains within the ring wall were a wasteland of burned ash where armies drilled and marched in prelude to war against those Saruman had once called friends. CHARACTERISTICS: - Open Edition; - Made of high quality polystone; - 360° environment design; - Recreated in the smallest details; - Digitally sculpted by 3D artist Daniel Holland. Dimensions: 11 x 18 x 11 cm