The Anduin Keycap is genuinely stunning. It's like having a detailed figurine or diarama in a tiny little keycap. This is my first artisan keycap I actually went through with getting and I am beyond pleased. Highly highly satisfied.
I got the Lothlorien keycap and it looks waaaay better than the pictures! I got a little giddy when I saw the box by our door. Ngl, I thought it will take more than a month to arrive. It was indeed delivered within the 2-3week timeframe that was mentioned. The box looks premium! Plus, I like how finger gloves were included inside. Will definitely recommend it to my co-LOTR junkies! Kudos to Dwarf Factory!
Great packaging, amazing attention to detail... for two out of the three keycaps.
I have one question... Why is the eye in the Mount Doom keycap positioned vertically (and not even straight, it's kind of skewed to the left by ~10 degees)? For what is otherwise an amazingly built product, such an exaggerated miss of attention to detail feels almost like I'm being pranked.
In the meantime I'll contact support, see what they say and report back. To be fair, I vaguely remember looking through the promotional pictures and noticing the eye is not positioned horizontally, but thought it was just a promo oversight and that when received it will be in the correct orientation - how wrong I was.
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Otherwise the Lothlorien & Anduin keycaps feel premium and look amazing - Any LotR fans need these keycaps.
I subscribe to the notion that artisans can quickly make a keyboard tacky and they are definitely overly expensive. However, this one is an absolute beauty. I am a massive LOTR fan so I couldn't help myself. I got the Lothlorien variant. Looks even better than the photos. Now I really can't wait for the keycaps! It also arrived early which is a pleasant surprise in this era of infinite delays.
Not only is the 'Eye' on the Mt. Doom keycap in a questionable orientation, the one that was sent to me is not even vertical! It appears to have been misaligned horribly and tilted 10-15 degrees to the right.
I have contacted support to see if an exchange is possible. I will update my review if I am able to get a non-defect one. I really do like how it looks, but the Eye alignment is irritating to look at for such an expensive keycap.
For the life of me I can’t figure out why the Eye of Sauron is vertical and not horizontal. Dwarf Factory does such an astounding job with the minute details of their caps that this is legitimately hard for me
to believe.
Beautiful but the stems are shallow and can break.
I have all 3 of these but my Lothlorien elvish keycap got a crack in the stem from normal use and then broke in half when I was using the key. The stems are way too shallow and they wobble really bad on any switch. Box switches are better but they still have a *lot* of wobble. They also shouldn't be breaking like this, I need a replacement if you can't repair them. It's almost as if they weren't meant to ever be functional keys but that is a ridiculous thing to think.
Really high quality artisan, I’m so happy that they flipped the eye 90 degrees from the original design.
this should go perfectly with the Black Speech keycap sets.
I got the Lothlórien version and it looks absolutely gorgeous, especially with a bright white backlight. The only reason not to get one is if you're worried the beauty will distract you too much!