The Eagles are Coming!

Built for round 5 of Rogue Olympics with the theme "Uplift" using 80 pieces. At the end of LOTR Gandalf comes with the Eagles to "uplift" Frodo and Sam-- both physically lifting them into the sky and also mentally uplifting their spirits.
Also yet another build where I experimented with the treasure chest pieces, this time using 8.
And yes Tolkien nerds... technically it should be Gandalf the White, but this is all I had.

You can also find it here on Flickr: The Eagles are Coming!

Also here is a behind the scenes look at how it was built

And of course the pieces:

Quote from Rauy

And the chests are back! Really efficient use of parts and space with those "clouds".

It isn't the first time, and it won't be the last time you see the chests I'm thinking about trying to incorporate them into every build from now on, but we'll just have to see....

Quote from Klemmplem

Since I've already seen tires turned inside out in earlier rounds, I suspect that the cotton wool comes from some LEGO plushies turned inside out as well

I suppose that argument can be made if the background has to count as a piece too , but no plushies were harmed in the making of this build I could have done LEGO clouds but took the lazy route instead