I was, at one point, right where you are: working on a LEGO LOTR film. But, even after writing over 70 pages of screenplay, I thought to myself, "Wait, what? This is crazy. I'm crazy!" When I did a read-through of the screenplay, it timed in at about an hour and a half. I couldn't do this on my own! I kinda put it off, maybe for a few years.
You've got a great ambition, but trying to recreate a three-hour live-action fantasy-fiction blockbuster with LEGO bricks is insane. I'd agree with Squash over here. For a beginner brickfilmer like you, to do something like this is kind of outrageous. I'm also gonna kind of reiterrate what the King of Bricks said; try your hand at making a shorter LEGO LOTR adventure. Not some unfunny spoof of the movies, but just...something that isn't three hours long.
A three-hour brickfilm is something un-heard of. But, it's not something impossible. You can pursue this idea of yours if you want. But, even if you don't, a three-hour-long brickfilm is an ambition that somebody somewhere will achieve some day.
P.S. When you make this LEGO LOTR film, don't just accord to the film trilogy. The books are there too, and Tolkien has some stuff that might be useful when making a Lord of the Rings brickfilm. I would look through some of the notes and, overall, read the books. I mean, if I were to make a LEGO LOTR film--which I actually tried to do--I would base it on the books, not the films.
Good luck on this idea!
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