Sims 4 Player Design Recreates LOTR's Rivendell Council (Without CC)
A Sims 4 player shared an incredibly impressive build this week with a recreation of Rivendell from Lord of the Rings. Building famous pop-culture locations in The Sims 4 is a common activity for many players, with users often sharing their own versions of everything from classic movie sets to popular locales in other video games. Selling over 36 million copies since its release in 2014, The Sims 4 has one of the largest and most active creative communities in gaming.
The Sims series has always been about player creativity and freedom to do whatever they wish in-game, both in how their Sims' lives play out and what they choose to build. The base game offers a wide range of options when it comes to building and designing, which is further expanded upon by the many Sims 4 DLC releases that often add more furniture and other building elements to the game. For building recreations of famous places, many players turn to custom content — objects made by users and then shared online — for the specific items they require.
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Reddit user TheSimScrolls shared their brilliant Rivendell design this week, complete with many characters from the series. Their detail is impeccable, capturing everything from the plants that grow all around Rivendell to the meeting area's intricate architecture — with all the ornate pieces included, the user has likely created an incredibly expensive Sims 4 lot. They've even given their photo a cinematic feel, beautifully capturing rays of sunlight flowing into the scene. Many famous characters from both the movies and books can be seen, including Gandalf, Frodo, Legolas, Gimli, and Elrond along with what appear to be his two sons,
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