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    Icon10 Minas Tirith On Earth!

    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:

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    Tell me that the 1st time u saw Saint Michel mt. you compared it to Minas Tirith!!!!

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    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beorn of Carrock View Post
    Tell me that the 1st time u saw Saint Michel mt. you compared it to Minas Tirith!!!!
    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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    Default Re: Minas Tirith On Earth!

    place looks more like a church then a castle

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    Quote Originally Posted by Devils_Advocate View Post
    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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    Tolkein didn't get his inspiration from this (well there is no evidence that he did), but Peter Jackson and his concept artists did.

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    Just for fun


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    Quote Originally Posted by Brego View Post



    Just for fun
    You got there first!

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    What's more funny, is that there are 2 church/castle islands with the same name, one of each side of the Channel

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    Quote Originally Posted by desean View Post
    place looks more like a church then a castle
    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.




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    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inarus View Post
    A great post!
    Why thankyou, I was worried that this thread may go either way......that's how unpredictable this community is...

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    Inspired me to check the place out sometime in my future travels

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    Quote Originally Posted by SpankytheMighty View Post
    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...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Inarus View Post
    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.

    Rather religiously charged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkhorse View Post
    What's more funny, is that there are 2 church/castle islands with the same name, one of each side of the Channel
    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...

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    truly a wonderfull castle/church/island. i like it more then MT
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    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!
    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.


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