Velocity Alert: Lego Rivendell Is 'LOTR' Fantasy Land Made From 200K Bricks

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Lego Rivendell Is 'LOTR' Fantasy Land Made From 200K Bricks Seventy-six years after J.R.R. Tolkien first began to imagine the Elven outpost of Rivendell for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lego enthusiasts Alice Finch and David Frank decided to build their own version using only toy bricks as their medium. The duo used 200,000 tiny bricks to create a spectacular model of Rivendell, scaled down to fit a kingdom of Elven minifigures. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a California Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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