Rent the LEGO The Lord of the Rings: Barad-dûr™

Reckon on 16 to 22 hours. The 5'471 pieces are spread across several tiers, each built on its own and stacked at the end. The time sink is the middle tower segment: a lot of repetition in almost entirely black and dark grey pieces, where searching takes longer than building.

It is 83 cm tall on a footprint of 45 × 30 cm. So it will not fit under any ordinary shelf. You need a free-standing spot, a sideboard or a chest of drawers with nothing above it. With this set that is a bigger hurdle than the price.

Yes, a light brick illuminates the eye at the top of the tower, and it turns in every direction. The light brick runs on a button cell, which is included in the set. There is also the main gate, which you open and close with a switch brick.

Yes, set 10333 has been in the range since 2024 and is still listed at LEGO for around CHF 489.–. With a tower this size, though, for most people the question is not the price but where to put it once it is standing.

The tower is fitted out across several levels and can be viewed from the back: a throne room, a forge, a dungeon with a cage and the wall walks. A palantír is hidden behind a flap, and the set introduces some new helmets and accessories that did not exist before.

You pick a set from our collection and we send it to your door for free. You build it, keep it as long as you like, and send it back when you are ready for the next one. After a month at the earliest, with no upper limit. Then you choose your next set.

There are three options: the single rental at a one-off CHF 42.–, the monthly plan at CHF 39.– per month and the yearly plan at CHF 29.– per month. Included are the complete set, delivery to you and the cleaning. You cover the return, and the label is already in the box.

Yes. The monthly plan can be cancelled to the end of any month, with no reason and no notice period. You send the set back and that is that. The yearly plan commits you for twelve months and costs about a quarter less per month in return.

Every set goes through our quality check after it comes back, before it goes out again. We check its condition, wash the sets regularly at 30 °C with soap and keep track of whether every piece is there. That way a clean and complete set reaches you.

The sets are checked between rentals and washed regularly. That is why the numbered bags from the original packaging are gone, and you get all the pieces loose in one large wash bag. Up to about 2'000 pieces you build straight from the bag; for bigger sets a bit of sorting first is worth it. For the return you sort nothing: take the set fully apart and put every piece back in the wash bag.

Paper instructions and sticker sheets do not last many rentals, so we send the sets without them. The instructions for every set are free at lego.com/en-ch/service/building-instructions and in the LEGO Builder app. Search there by set number or name.

Up to ten lost small pieces are no problem and are included in the price. It happens, vacuum cleaners are merciless. We only get in touch for larger damage or missing large pieces. You do not have to go over the carpet with tweezers.

Orders placed before 14:00 go out the same working day. After that Swiss Post usually takes one to two working days. We deliver anywhere in Switzerland and delivery to you is free.

A LEGO set is usually built once and then sits on a shelf or in a cellar for years. With us the same set passes through eight to ten people. For the same number of sets built, that is up to 90 % less newly produced plastic.