Hokay!
I have the impression the two sets are not quite to the same scale (does LEGO have a fixed scale for such things, like the 1/72 or 1/48 scale I remember from distant model airplane building days perhaps half a century ago?)
The only imperfect comparison seems to be by using the LEGO figures as a reference, which would appear to make the
Helm's Deep set larger than the
Minas Tirith one, which is nonsense. The Minas Tirith set does have someone standing close by it, so that the tip of
the White Tower can be estimated at being perhaps 8 feet high. As the seventh level of MT was 700 feet above the ground, and the White Tower another 300 feet high, 8 to 1000 feet gives a scale of 1/125. Now for that, the figures are
way too large. A quick check on Wiki Germany indicates that the figures appear to be at 1/40 scale, so about three times the size they should by if my guess above is right.
I have this vague memory of
Barad-dûr having been stated somewhere as being a mile high; this might be one of PJ's exaggerations, though. But 5280 feet at 1/125 scale would still make it over 42 feet high. Anyone up for Barad-dûr?!? 🤪🥴
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