- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
- Seas and oceans
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Dates
The earliest Houses must have dated back to the foundation Minas Anor (later Minas Tirith) in II 33201
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The tower originally called Minas Anor, and later Minas Tirith
Important peaks
Ran beneath Mindolluin
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Houses of the DeadThe Tombs of Rath DínenThe name given to the Tombs of the rulers of Gondor, which lay on a narrow ledge of land on the slopes of Mount Mindolluin behind Minas Tirith.1 Along this ledge ran the so-called Silent Street, Rath Dínen, beside which stood the Houses of the Dead. Many of the Kings had their own Tombs, and these seem to have varied in design through the ages: for example, some were domed, while others displayed images of their occupants. At least some of the Kings were entombed within a larger structure, the House of the Kings, and the Ruling Stewards also used a single communal burial chamber, the House of the Stewards. It was here that Denethor II took his own life during the War of the Ring. Besides the entombed bodies of the Kings and Stewards, the Houses of the Dead also held the Crown of Gondor for nearly a thousand years. When Eärnur, the last King of the House of Anárion, departed to take up the challenge of the Witch-king, he placed the Crown on the lap of the statue of his father Eärnil II, perhaps sensing that he would not return. He did not, and so there the Crown remained throughout the last millennium of the Third Age, until the coming of Aragorn Elessar. For Aragorn's coronation, Faramir recovered the Crown of Gondor from its resting place. Notes
See also...Crown of Gondor, Houses of the Dead, Rath Dínen, Silver Crown, The Tombs, Tombs of the Kings, White Crown, Winged Crown Indexes: About this entry:
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