Look similar don't they? Apparently this is where they got the inspiration of how it should look in the movies (including Lore to...) :
Mont Saint Michel, Normany, France, Europe, Earth:
Minas Tirith, Anorien, Gondor, Middle-Earth, Arda:
Look similar don't they? Apparently this is where they got the inspiration of how it should look in the movies (including Lore to...) :
Mont Saint Michel, Normany, France, Europe, Earth:
Minas Tirith, Anorien, Gondor, Middle-Earth, Arda:
Tell me that the 1st time u saw Saint Michel mt. you compared it to Minas Tirith!!!!
Cool, isn't that place where the tidal water sometimes makes it an island and sometimes has that land bridge :o Pretty cool actually!
Would be awesome to defend the French place though if it was an island ;D trebuchets vs ships = win
Is it not just off the Cornish Coast in South West England?
Then again, the pictures look different.
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Anyways, been there, I liked it They do look similar. I guess that's pretty cool.
Ofcourse! It has large plains of grassland around it like the Fields of Pelennor and insetead of a mountain behind it there is the sea. When I stood on the battlements I imagined that the fields were covered with Orcs!
In fact this Norman Castle held out against the English for 10 years...
And Dark Horse, that pic you ahve is a different place, that still looks similar.
Here is another picture of it! (when the tide comes in and washes all the orcs away)
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I am glad Evan you pointed that out, it must be Tolkiens inspiration for Minas Tirith since he tried to reproduce our world as close as possible and provide a one by one interpritation!
For a moment I thought this forum was useless.
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place looks more like a church then a castle
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Just for fun
What's more funny, is that there are 2 church/castle islands with the same name, one of each side of the Channel
It's Medieval, what d'you expect?
I have heard of this inspiring place in France, (bit like the Holy Island up north in Northumberland (England) but more impressive). I am glad to see that it was not the French that first used the place but the Romano-Bretons (a.k.a Roman culture mixed with Britannian tribes (damn that must have been a good mix). Unsurprisingly the Franks (need I say who they are now) ransacked the place (well what else do barbaric Frenchies do?). So after time the place gets a church (on God's orders you understand) and later a nice big castle. Result: a brilliant inspiration for PJ. We owe God a lot (or at least one of his French Bishops).
A great post! That place sure looks awesome, thank God the French didn't have Henry VIII as a King.
You have to admit the architecture is beatifull.
The AI is like a retarded overwieght child. He realy want all those fries, he just does not know how to get them. http://img1.coolspacetricks.com/imag...unny/81776.gif
Inspired me to check the place out sometime in my future travels
It was truly extraodinary the way I came upon it. We were driving through North France near the North Coast, the fields were completely flat. And in the distance we could see this mound and a tower on it and I thought it must be Minas Tirith.
As we got closer it became more apparent that it wasn't Minas Tirith, but still a very memorable and beautiful site...
St. Michaels in Cornwall was a priory of the abbey Mt.St. Michel in Normandy, so the architecture and the name was surely influenced by it.
Anyways, I must admit when I was in Mont Saint Michel I didn't think of Minas Tirith though I was very impressed, but then it was before the PJ movies...
truly a wonderfull castle/church/island. i like it more then MT
"By the blood of our people, your lands kept safe."
Actually Mont St. Michel is surounded by water. When it was first built you could reach it 2 times a day for 2 hours depending on the tide. Later on they made a dijk (I'm using the Dutch word here as that is the original name) so you could reach it anytime.Ofcourse! It has large plains of grassland around it like the Fields of Pelennor and insetead of a mountain behind it there is the sea. When I stood on the battlements I imagined that the fields were covered with Orcs!