I know it’s been promised for a while, but I just wanted to write a quick note to say; we have not forgotten this blog or this project. We just work on our own time schedule.
A Lego Holiday
We had a very Lego holiday season here this year. We are looking forward to using these pieces in our Prydain project.
Planning Sketches
In lieu of posting Lego progress (hopefully some of that soon), we want to instead present three planning sketches we’ve done in the last little while. The first two are approximate plans for some of the major constructions we have planned. First, Caer Dallben. Second, and larger, is Spiral Castle – what will probably be the largest, crowning piece of our Book of Three constructions. Finally, there’s an impressive sketch of the Horned King. We will need to rework our Lego manifestation to match it.
We hope you enjoy!
A Cast of Characters: The Book of Three
We wanted to show our first draft of the major characters in The Book of Three. These are not necessarily the final versions, but we are pretty happy with a lot of things about them.
First, Coll and Dallben!
Taran and Eilonwy, before the flight to Caer Dathyl:
Next, Fflewddur Fflam, complete with harp, and Gurgi!
Doli and Melyngar:
And finally, a quick peek at a take at Gwydion and the Horned King:
I know – that’s a lot of antler for the Horned King…
A Map of Prydain
In the front of the 1964 Library Edition of The Book of Three is a hand-drawn map of Taran’s journey in that book. For the beginning of this project, we have recreated this map in Lego form. So, presenting our Lego Map of Prydain from The Book of Three:
We tried to stay accurate with each of the “settlements,” and therefore also stay consistent with future, full-size (minifigure size) builds of each.
The Authors
Lloyd Alexander wrote The Prydain Chronicles, but we are doing this blog ourselves. Here is a picture of the two “builders.”
Welcome to Lego Prydain
Lloyd Alexander’s young adult novel series, The Prydain Chronicles, were very influential for my twin brother and me when we were in elementary school. On our recent birthday, we were out to lunch and started talking about building the land of Prydain in Lego. And thus was this project begun.
We have now sorted all our Lego pieces and have started to re-read the books. We are planning to stay in chronological order. This blog will primarily be a picture blog, with many images of the Lego builds of characters, places and scenes from The Prydain Chronicles. We hope you enjoy them. Feel free to leave feedback on the various entries as they come “off the press,” so to speak.
Some rules for this project:
+ Stay consistent, whenever possible;
+ Use no third-party or customized pieces, only straight Lego representations;
+ Never let it be a chore.
