Minas Tirith of 420,000 matches Bashny.Net

All who know the meaning of "Lord of the Rings", and certainly know what Minas Tirith. This is one of the fortresses, appearing in famous works of John. R. R. Tolkien and, at the same time, is also the capital of Gondor.

However, it will now not about literature, and a slightly different form of creativity, which also deserves your attention. Artist-sculptor Pat Acton (Pat Acton), representing the Association «Matchstick Marvels», created a massive copy of the legendary fortress of Minas Tirith. To create a project, the author took more than 420,000 matches. A native of the US state of Iowa, has been creating sculptures of matches for the past 36 years. Besides the fortress, at the same time Pat has recreated a fragment of the mountain Mindolluin, with 24 million boxes. Note that this is not the first project of the author on the topic of creativity J. R. R. Tolkien.