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Minas Tirith is the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising some 700 feet to a high terrace, housing the Citadel, at the seventh level. Atop this is the 300-foot high Tower of Ecthelion, which contains the throne room.
At 1,468 m (4,816 ft) in height, it is only 750 m (2,460 ft) ... [173] Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor in the fantasy adventure film series The Lord of the ...
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age.The third volume of The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, is largely concerned with the events in Gondor during the War of the Ring and with the restoration of the realm afterward.
Peter Jackson is said to have taken inspiration from Mont-Saint-Michel in designing Gondor's capital city, Minas Tirith, in his 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. [ 34 ] The site appears in the 2004 film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers .
Gondor's border with Rohan is the Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains, which run east–west from the sea to a point near the Anduin; at that point is Gondor's capital city, Minas Tirith. [8] Across the river to the East is the land of Mordor. It is bordered to the north by the Ered Lithui, the Ash Mountains; to the west by the Ephel Duath, the ...
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She cites Tolkien's description of Minas Tirith's architecture as evidently medieval: [1] Then turning south again [Frodo] beheld Minas Tirith. Far away it seemed, and beautiful: white-walled, many-towered, proud and fair upon its mountain-seat; its battlements glittered with steel, and its turrets were bright with many banners.
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