"Best Middle-Earth Figures?" Topic
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79thPA  | 30 Dec 2025 7:23 a.m. PST |
Who do you think makes the best figures (in any scale) for your idea of Tolkien's Middle-Earth? |
| English Thegn | 30 Dec 2025 7:35 a.m. PST |
Mithril Miniatures. Sadly they're very expensive. |
 20thmaine | 30 Dec 2025 7:38 a.m. PST |
I'm still fond of my Minifigs Mythical Earth figures, but they aren't the best sculpts ever  Mithril are really good. |
 John the OFM | 30 Dec 2025 7:40 a.m. PST |
I had all of the figures and sets that came with the movie releases from GW.
The personality figures were perfect sculpts. Instantly identifiable faces, particularly The Fellowship.
To me, these are the very best Middle Earth figures. Fun fact. The dead and stomped figures sculpted on the base of the plastic Mumakhil are the Perry brothers, the sculptors of the range. I'm not sure if there was a Peter Jackson figure… |
| English Thegn | 30 Dec 2025 7:46 a.m. PST |
Hi 20thmaine, Yes, the Mythical Earth figures are wonderfully charming figures. I am laboriously collecting armies from the range out of pure nostalgia (they were my first fantasy figures in the late 1970s). |
| SBminisguy | 30 Dec 2025 9:03 a.m. PST |
Mithril Miniatures is still a favorite – but for Skirmish gaming I've been collecting and painting Dark Ages for various human factions, and other manufacturers for dwarves, orcs and elves. My 28mm figure collection for gaming Middle Earth is heavily Gripping Beast, Footsore and Wargames Foundry for human factions 1. Eriador and "free men" generically: Romano-British & Saxon
2. Gondor: Byzantine
3. Rohan: Vikings and Gothic units
4. Dunlendings: Picts
5. Dale & Laketown: Dark Ages/Medieval Russian
6. Easterlings: Huns & Mongols
7. Haradrim: Dark ages Berbers/tribesmen
8. Dwarves (Dark Ages): Conqueror models & Ragnarok (Colin Patten)
9. Orcs: Mix of Oathmark and Ral Partha
10. Elves: Mix of Oathmark and 3D Prints (Davale Games)
11. Halfling militia from Copplestone
12. Dunedain: "Robin Hood" minis from Footsore's "Baron's War" line
13. Woses are "Tupi" Indians from Eureka Miniatures
14. Lossoth are Inuit Warriors from Eureka Miniatures |
 Grelber | 30 Dec 2025 9:51 a.m. PST |
Interesting approach, SBminisguy! I will have to think about this, especially since I already have quite a few appropriate historicals. Grelber |
| 20thmaine | 30 Dec 2025 9:59 a.m. PST |
@English Thegn – you probably already know, but Caliver have brought most of the range back into production link They are a bit pricey, but then again they are rarely cheap on Ebay and usually need gloss enamels removed before repainting… |
| Perris0707 | 30 Dec 2025 11:34 a.m. PST |
SBminisguy. That is almost exactly what I would do for a Middle Earth collection! I am going to check out those Davale Games elves to see if they match my concept of what the elves would look like. Although I do like the Oathmark elves too. |
| Perris0707 | 30 Dec 2025 11:51 a.m. PST |
Ok. The Davale Games figures are pretty epic. But the Elves are too close to the movie version for my taste. Nowhere in the LOTR trilogy does Tolkien ever mention plate armor, so I can't use the PJ movie version figures. Not judging, just my own personal bias. So my elves would have to be beardless, mail clad figures. I would maybe do some kit-bashing to get what I want. I am also not a fan of the sword style of the elves in the Jackson movies. Not how I envisioned elven blades in my imagination. |
| nickinsomerset | 30 Dec 2025 12:02 p.m. PST |
My first Middle Earth Armies were based around the Minifigs Range, like a few here I have been rebuilding my forces, mainly the original chaps but also others from the feudal and Alexander Nevsky range that I used in the 70s. I have also managed S&S armies, one from the Minifigs Range and a 2nd from the Greenwood and Ball range, Tally Ho! |
 Parzival | 30 Dec 2025 12:05 p.m. PST |
Copplestone Castings makes great 10mm not-LotR minis (perfect for Warmaster/Battle of Five Armies). The range includes heroes (the Fellowship, mounted and on foot), not-Rohan warriors/archers (mounted and on foot, vaguely Romano-British), Gondor (foot only, vaguely Norman), Rangers (on foot as skirmishers), Dwarfs with swords, Dwarfs with axes, Orcs with swords, Orcs with spears, Half-orcs (not Uruk-hai) with pikes/spears and swords and crossbows, Warg-riders, trolls, Evil "heroes" including mounted not-Nazgűl (horse and fel-beast), not-Saruman, orc and half-orc leaders (on foot and mounted) Missing are mounted Knights of Gondor/Dol Amroth, Southrons/Harad, Dunlendings, elves (probably assumed everyone would use the GW BoFA line, now defunct), Shelob, the Witch King, Ents, Mumakil, and Eagles (also in GW's defunct line). But honestly, lots of historicals can make great stand-ins. I picked up some 10mm Parthian Cataphracts to be my Knights of Dol Amroth (on my todo paint list). |
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