Lego continued its one big Lord of the Rings set per year tradition by releasing a mammoth Minas Tirith build earlier this month. However, if you want that set to come with a LOTR-themed free gift, you're going to have to buy it today.

Buy Minas Tirith And Get Grond For Free

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Lego's Minas Tirith comes with one of the most fitting gifts with purchase I have ever seen. A buildable battering ram, but not just any battering ram. It's a little Lego version of Grond, the battering ram that is used to break down the gates of Minas Tirith, allowing orcs, trolls, and any number of other evil creatures that call the darkest corners of Middle-earth home to come flooding in.

You'd think that when you spend $650 on a Lego set - that's how much the Minas Tirith build costs - that its LOTR-themed free gift would always be available, but that's not the case. To entice you into buying Minas Tirth as soon as possible, Lego is only giving away its matching Grond for a limited time. A very limited time, as a matter of fact, as less than a week on from Minas Tirth's release, its Grond companion is about to disappear.

Lego's Grond Will Be Gone For Good After Today

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If you buy the Minas Tirith set through the Lego website before the end of today (June 7, 2026), then you'll get the Grond set thrown in for free. If you wait until tomorrow, or any day after that, you will not. You will have missed the boat, and I don't just mean the free one. As is almost always the case, once Lego removes a GWP, the set is gone forever.

You won't even be able to buy it after today, nor will it come back around again in the future. It will just be gone. It's a frustrating side effect of the free gifts Lego gives away with its more expensive sets, and it's unclear why it doesn't just sell them after the GWP period has ended. Particularly when there are almost certainly people saving up the $650 for this set who, because they couldn't magic up that money with seven days' notice, will miss out on an additional Lord of the Rings set they'd have likely been willing to pay for.

The only hope you have of getting your own Grond after today is if Lego is kind enough to release the instructions at a later date. It doesn't do it often, but it did it with the Kanto Badge set that was a GWP tied to its $650 Pokemon set.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Like PG-13 Adventure Fantasy Action Release Date December 17, 2003 Runtime 201 minutes Director Peter Jackson 9 Images Close

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  • Elijah Wood Frodo
  • Ian McKellen Gandalf
  • Viggo Mortensen Aragorn
  • Sean Astin Sam
Writers Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien Producers Barrie M. Osborne, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Mark Ordesky, Robert Shaye Prequel(s) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Franchise(s) The Lord of the Rings Powered by Expand Collapse