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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jonesy" data-source="post: 5389731" data-attributes="member: 10324">The design of Minas Tirith (in the movie) was based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel" target="_blank">Mont Saint-Michel</a>. The problem with that is that Mont Saint-Michel is an island. Minas Tirith could have underground passages to the river, but that idea has problems of its own. The Pelennor fields were used for farmland and might have been irrigated, but the movie didn't really make any mention of the fields, which looked barren. The whole area around it looked oddly empty in the movie.In the book the walls of Minas Tirith were made of a material similar in strength to Sarumans tower. That's why the land armies had to break through the gates, and not the walls.</blockquote>