This is the seat of the king of Rohan, who commands more than 6000 horseriders

So? The capital of the Mongol Empire was for a time just a collection of Yurts

>it's not just a pig sty, but a big pig sty

Nice.

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I pictured Minas Tirith being bigger when I read the book

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>what is you are point

what's wrong with it? it looks fine

The city of Rome during the height of the Roman empire had a population of 50,000 people, that would be a small hick town by today's standards

no

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yeah, rohan was more powerful than Gondor and yet their city is a shithole compared to the white city..

never knew why.

Well played

The Rohirrim are based on Anglo-Saxon England with more horses
In the early-mid Saxon period capitals weren't actually big towns, they were what you'd probably refer to as royal estates with relatively limited and transient settlement associated with them.
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Yeavering Bell was one such royal estate of the kings of Bernicia/Northumberland

>What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs?
based Sauronman

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>rohan was more powerful than Gondor
not really, Gondor is pretty badly represented in the films. They'd been fighting Mordor for years by that point, which is why Boromir was so keen to use the ring as a weapon.

Not just Mordor, but the Haradrim and the countless peoples and empires of the East as well.

It's like the Dothraki city in GoT. Rohirrim are basically white Mongols.

>Do you get to the Cloud District very often? Oh, what am I saying. Of course you don't.
Looks about as shitty as Whiterun.

What do they eat?

Whatever they want

Döner

Whatever they want.

whiterun from Skyrim

first thing that came into mind. I miss my adopted lolis

its a total war settlement

Yeah I always thought they made eddoras a little too small

>golden castle
>it's a fucking farm

>no walls or embankment of any kind
>build on a nice gentle gradient hill
is LotR world devoid of bandits or rapists? Aren't their people to fear beyond orcs and the brown fags from the east?

see

In LOTR movie like in role-playing games for children, the population of cities is a number that a child can count to. Minas Tirith looks like it can probably house 2000 people, maybe, if that.

What was the insurance policy on horses?

What the fuck, hell no, Rome had over a million people

>Walls barely the height of a house
That's definitely getting scaled right away.

>sloping terrain supplying no foundation for a ladder
>archers from the high ground

>What is the house of Eorl but a thatched barn where brigands drink in the reek, and their brats roll on the floor among the dogs?
What a slam on Harvard, holy shit.

how do they deal with the inevitable rockfall coming from that cliff?

The real question should be how the king of Rohan has evaded his taxes for so long

You're drunk. Edoras would be a nightmare to assault.

Minas Tirith was a glorified fort turned into a city when Osgiliath collapsed. It should have had farms and stuff outside.

this is a ridiculously good defensive position desu. siege weapons and archers won't have a proper angle and it's uphill for whatever infantry that might break through. not to mention the vantage point.

It would be incredibly easy to siege the city, cut off all supply lines and starve them out.

>everyone lives in the mayors house

How would you keep the rest of the rohirrim from lifting the siege?

damn, you are some kind of strategic genius

woah

Why do you think they all relocate to Helm's Deep?

that's the risk you take i suppose

This. The Rohirrim are spread out quite a bit. Look at how few people defended Helm's Deep versus how many riders came to the aid of Gondor.

Wait, not this, , this

> 50,000 people diting its height
Fucking retard

He didn't get rich building useless palaces.

That cliff sticking out is a disaster waiting to happen. I wouldn't feel safe anywhere near that.

The virgin Gondor

>decadent citydwellers
>plate armor can't even defend against crude arrows
>ruled by a glorified regent who has a mental breakdown and kills himself
>needs Rohan to save their asses
>cavalry charge with eighty men
>loses to poorly equipped, cowardly orcs
>muh dead tree
>forgettable musical theme

The Chad Rohan

>proud warrior people
>defeats Isengard without Gondor's help
>ruled by a Chad king who dies fighting
>faces frenzied Uruks with superior equipment
>rides down tens of thousands of orcs
>fearlessly charges into an army of giant elephants
>memorable musical theme

rohan
>chad wooden fortress with many qt maidens
>doesn't feel the need to impress anyone, is perfectly fine with a wicked tavern and aesthetic villages
>nature and stone and shit, keepin' it real

gondor
>virgin stone glorified cave
>has to make it big so people will like him
>paints everything white and destroys and otherwise beautiful mountain because he DESPERATELY seeks validation from the elves

>tfw I study there
>tfw take a module on this exact topic
Who is this?

Charles.

what was his tax policy?

2nd year?

Came here to post this. Theoden BTFO

I'd rather live in Edoras than Minas Tirith tbph

Minas Tirith is much bigger in the books, and as somebody already mentioned, Osgiliath was the capital of Gondor pre-destruction and Minas Tirith was a fort akin to Helm's Deep to the Rohirrim.

You haven't been to the cloud district, have you?

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