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the lord of the rings - Looking for canonical descriptions of Orthanc . . . Well, the way Peter Jackson saw it is the way Alan Lee saw it; Peter basically took one of Alan's drawings for an edition of the books (shown here ) back to him and asked him to draw the rest of it The resulting depiction in the movies is pretty faithful to the book, and many other illustrators came to a very similar conclusion long before the movies' release
What is the significance of towers in Lord of the Rings? Orthanc is certainly not a city-sized edifice like the Tower of Guard or the Dark Tower However, it is not clear from the descriptions of the structure whether there was a significant ground-level fortress attached to the pinnacle
How does Gandalf end up on the roof of Orthanc in Isengard? After the short duel between Gandalf and Saruman in The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf gets trapped on the roof of Orthanc But it looks to be a smooth top without any doors or stairs (according t
Why did Saruman lose his power after he was banished from Orthanc? The banishment from Orthanc was not directly connected to his loss of power, although you could argue that his previous power was being augmented by magical artifacts he had within the tower Rather, the power loss was connected to his removal from the role as The White Wizard
Which are the Two Towers in The Lord of the Rings? Orthanc is shown as a black tower, three-homed (as seen in Pictures no 27), and with the sign of the White Hand beside it; Minas Morgul is a white tower, with a thin waning moon above it, in reference to its original name Minas Ithil, the Tower of the Rising Moon ('The Fellowship of the Ring' p 257) Between the two towers a Nazgûl flies
What was the tallest structure built in Middle-earth? The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Minas Tirith, p 11 The Atlas of Middle-earth, p 139 Second place I think it's a tie between the Temple of Armenelos and Orthanc Both are 500 feet (150 m), plus an additional component of unknown height The Temple was built on Sauron's orders in Armenelos, the capital of Númenor:
How tall was Barad-dûr? - Science Fiction Fantasy Stack Exchange One of the comments on this thread on Planet Tolkien uses a number of passages from the books about Orthanc and Minas Tirith to attempt to estimate the height of the tower and comes up with somewhere on the order of 3,000 feet tall It looks like the image you found uses the Weta bigature to-scale measurement How is that too small?