The saga of the Ring's free basic Lego set offer ends today

Lego continued its one big Lord of the Rings per year tradition by releasing a massive Minas Tirith build earlier this month. But if you want the set to come with a free LOTR-themed gift, you'll need to purchase it today.

Buy Minas Tirith and get foundation for free

Lego's Minas Tirith comes with one of the most fitting gifts I've ever seen with purchase. A buildable hammer, but not just any hammer. It's a small Lego version of Grond, the battering ram used to break down the gates of Minas Tirith, allowing orcs, goblins and any number of other evil creatures that summon the darkest corners of Middle-earth to pour in.

You'd think that when you spend $650 on a Lego set — that's how much the Minas Tirith build costs — that its LOTR-themed freebie would always be available, but that's not the case. To entice you to buy Minas Tirth as soon as possible, Lego is only giving away its matching Grond for a limited time. For a very limited time, in fact, less than a week after the release of Minas Tirth, its Grond companion is about to disappear.

Lego's Grond will be gone for good after today

If you buy the Minas Tirith set via the Lego website before the end of today (June 7, 2026), you'll get the Grond set thrown in for free. If you wait until tomorrow, or any day after that, you won't. You will have missed the boat, and I don't just mean the free one. As is almost always the case, when Lego removes a GWP, the set is gone forever.

You won't even be able to buy it after today, nor will it come back again in the future. It will just be gone. It's a frustrating side effect of the freebies Lego gives away with its more expensive sets, and it's unclear why it doesn't just sell them after the GWP period ends. Especially when there are almost certainly people saving up $650 for this set who, because they couldn't conjure up that money with seven days' notice, will miss out on another Lord of the Rings set they probably would have been willing to pay for.

The only hope you have of getting your own Grond after today is if Lego is kind enough to release the instructions at a later date. It doesn't do that often, but it did with the Kanto Badge set that was a GWP attached to its $650 Pokemon set.