Show me your Dunlendings!

[Hobgoblin]

If you are going by the book, the Dunlendings should be much bigger than the Uruk-hai (but not the half-orcs). The size difference (and its military significance) crops up several times in Tolkien's writings.

[Nord]

Sticking to the text is less important to me than aesthetic and cost. The scale difference between the dunlendings and orcs/uruk hai I can live with, Tolkien was pretty vague about these things after all - there's no one definition of an orc. But given that I already have a plastic Rohan force part painted, it's got to be consistent with that. I don't mind the dunlendings being bigger than orcs, but I want them to be similar sized to Rohan troops, hence my liking for Perry/Warlord which seem pretty similar to LotR (sculpted by the Perry brothers of course). The MM aesthetic is very nice, hopefully the scale will be similar but I suspect not, I am expecting them to be nearer 30mm than 25 mm as I do own some of their Norse figures.

My plan is to wait for the MM KS to arrive, then check the scale and if necessary look again.

[Arthadan]

If you want to stick to GW LotR scale, then I'm afraid these are not option (by Mithril Miniatures):

[Nord]

Erm, there's only two of them and they look pretty much like Warlord Celts to me, so no loss there.

[Arthadan]

There are more of them and I really dig the shields:

[Verderer]

I bought some Ebob Scottish Rebellion clansmen for use as Dunlending Wildmen, I thought they were a bit like the GW LOTR wildmen?

[area23]

I'm using Crusader Miniatures:

Irish nobles:


and Varangian axemen as elite troops. Readiing the comments above these could be half orcs.


For Uruk Hai I use the old Grenadier 'half orcs'.