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Barad Dur XBox

 We're all fans of Tolkien here, of course. A little while ago, The Kid, who has been watching the LotR movies again, wondered if I could print a case for his XBox model X, already tower-like, which looked like Barad Dur. I figured there was only one way to really find out, and as it happens, the answer is yes. There are several models of Tolkien-flavored architecture out there, so I started by looking at those. After considering and rejecting Orthanc instead, I came back to Sauron's dark tower. Doing the whole thing wouldn't work; to fit the XBox, I'd have to scale it up to the size of a large table, and we just don't have the room. However, just cutting it down to the top of the tower would work just fine. Kaiji's design on Printables already had the top section of the tower broken out, so that's what I went with. If you find yourself doing this, scaling up the tower part by a factor of 7.66 gets it big enough (the XBox is 6 by 6 by 12 inches), though you