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anghraineTolkien had various inspirations for Gondor and I’ve talked about them many times, but:
we come to the half-ruinous Byzantine City of Minas Tirith
In the south Gondor rises to a peak of power, almost reflecting Númenor, and then fades slowly to decayed Middle Age, a kind of proud, venerable, but increasingly impotent Byzantium.
Byzantine Gondor!!!!
we come to the half-ruinous Byzantine City of Minas Tirith
In the south Gondor rises to a peak of power, almost reflecting Númenor, and then fades slowly to decayed Middle Age, a kind of proud, venerable, but increasingly impotent Byzantium.
Byzantine Gondor!!!!