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And now, look you to yet another.
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Minas-Tirith, chief city of Gondor...
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...last bastion of hope
for the powers of light and good.
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From the battlement atop the citadel,
like a mariner in a mountainous ship...
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...one could look sheer down
upon the gate 700 feet below.
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And still this was not the top.
:21:35
Behold! The White Tower.
:21:41
At the top, the banner of the stewards
who governed the city...
:21:45
...its silken arms embracing
a domain more fitting Gwaihir...
:21:50
...Lord of the Eagles
than those whose emblem it bore.
:21:54
All this, Minas-Tirith was.
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But now, under siege,
the sparkling gem of Gondor...
:22:04
...had become dull and flawed
with the hell of war.
:22:10
The once-lush fields of Pelennor,
now a wasted battleground...
:22:14
...upon which Sauron's forces of evil
celebrated their victories.
:22:27
Far superior in number
to the battle-ravaged Gondor forces...
:22:31
...they mounted their monster oliphaunts...
:22:33
...to ride in the rocking, armored towers,
to their almost certain victory.
:22:40
And in the heavens,
where no living thing dare now venture...
:22:44
...Sauron's phantom lieutenants,
the Nazgul, astride their devil steeds...
:22:50
...scream battle cries
of vile encouragement.