Gondolin

Middle Earth city of Gondolin from the "Silmraillion" made in Minecraft. A few specific details were taken from "The Book of Lost Tales" (An early version of the Silmraillion unpublished until after Tolkien's death) rather then the Silmarillion itself. For the purist out there yes we obviously had to take some liberties due to both the lack of detail in the source material and the natural limitations of minecraft.

We made the vast majority of the city by hand, placing around 200k blocks and spending roughly 75 man hours to build it. These of course are rough estimates as I wasn't exactly evil enough to make my minions clock in and out as they worked. Maybe next time...

Hope you enjoy it!

Download can be found in this forum post at main minecraft forums: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/610095-creation-elvish-city-of-gondolin/

---------------Credits---------------

Builders: TheOneKane, Benbarkway123, Lookingeast, DegenerateCode.

Music:"Ruminations" by Kevin MacLeod

Texture Pack: "Dokucraft, The Saga Continues" Google it or find it on the Minecraft forums for more information.

--Mods Used--

"Single Player Commands" by Simo_415
"TooManyIems" by Marglyph
"Water Shader Alpha V4C" by Nexcrowizzard (This is the cool water reflection mod. Check this out.

Any of the mods can be easily found by googling the name of the mod and the word minecraft.

Additional tools used:

"WorldPainter" by Captain_Chaos. Used to create original landscape.
"MCEdit" by codewarrior. Used sparingly to correct mistakes and duplicate a couple of towers at the end of the project.
"INVedit" by copyboy

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• Gondolin
• Tolkien
• Gaming

[TheOneKane1]

Thanks!  I got a couple of private messages saying it looked great but I appreciate the comment too!

[Aaerielns]

This is so interesting and imposing. Well done! Now the next step would be to build this beautiful Elven city with Lego bricks ... or maybe Minas Tirith by using Meccano :-)

[ikbenloran]

how long does that take mate its very nice and good nice houses and castels epic shit

how did u record it

[JackCokeAndYouMom]

No comments on this? Seriously?

Good job on this. Really looks good.