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Looks fantastic.
I get a strange deja-vu when looking at this.It somehow springs to my mind an image of Minas Tirith-this is still different from Tirith, bu there are similarities.Aniway, nice work and great pic.Thank you for it.
Edit: it would have been nice that, in the distant area, acros Anduin river, to see Minas Tirith.
OMG!
Great work!!!
Wow!!!!!!
My heart stopped....
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I think you're a bit confused - it doesn't look like Minas Tirith, it is Minas Tirith. Minas Anor was a name for MT before Minas Ithil was taken by witch king (Minas Anor - Tower of setting sun, Minas Tirith - Guardian Tower).
I guess you're thinking this is Minas Ithil?
Jarlaxe, you had worked on it, I presume? Your skill is amazing. I said to Aradan six days ago in Visitor Messages that this is the most beautiful and yet most accurate depiction of Minas Tirith/Anor I have seen in my life.
I had had that opinion only from that little signature, and now I’m certain. Every depiction (be it picture, model, sculpture...) so far I have seen misses outer walls from indestructible black rock. What is also really good is that it really looks like a town in its proportions and amount of buildings. I honestly expected something smaller, and that is grandiose.
You are completely right. Now that we have pulled that theme, I’m wondering what is more correct name of the city in the Fourth Age; Minas Tirith or Minas Anor?
I know that Minas Anor is older name and started to be called Minas Tirith somewhere around the time of the fall of a Minas Ithil. So, was it renamed again in the FO because of the peaceful times and it was no longer “Guardian Tower” (there was no real threat anymore)? Or maybe both terms are equally worthy? I’m asking because it looked to me that developers prefer name Minas Anor (and of course it is interesting theme to me).
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Oh yes. Well done guys. Well done.
The details in the background are really nice by the way. By far the most accurate map I've seen.
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By the way, aren't those towers going to rip to shreds any attacking army once it's inside the city? Especially since the road is so close to the wall.
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