TodayвЂ™s argument has been quite interesting and fun to analyze, both because I had to model (in a very fast way) some parts of Minas Tirith and because I have found a nice assonance with a certain Greek wordвЂ¦ IвЂ™m going to talk about the main characteristic of Minas Tirith: its Levels (or Circles). And my deepest thanks to Middle-Earth News for their mention! The seven levels of Minas TirithвЂ¦ or Minos Tauros?ДЇirst of all I would like to spend few lines to thank you all for the warm welcome! I did not expect such enthusiasm and I truly am glad and honored that you choosed to follow this blog! I hope I will not disappoint you, in the future. Thus men reached at last the High Court, and the Place of the Fountain before the feet of the White Tower: tall and shapely, fifty fathoms from its base to the pinnacle, where the banner of the Stewards floated a thousand feet above the plain. The entrance to the Citadel also looked eastward, but was delved in the heart of the rock thence a long lamp-lit slope ran up to the seventh gate. Up it rose, even to the level of the topmost circle, and there was crowned by a battlement so that those in the Citadel might, like mariners in a mountainous ship, look from its peak sheer down upon the Gate seven hundred feet below. For partly in the primeval shaping of the hill, partly by the mighty craft and labour of old, there stood up from the rear of the wide court behind the Gate a towering bastion of stone, its edge sharp as a ship-keel facing east. And each time that it passed the line of the Great Gate it went through an arched tunnel, piercing a vast pier of rock whose huge out-thrust bulk divided in two all the circles of the City save the first. But the gates were not set in a line: the Great Gate in the City Wall was at the east point of the circuit, but the next faced half south, and the third half north, and so to and fro upwards so that the paved way that climbed towards the Citadel turned first this way and then that across the face of the hill. Pardon me!ДЇor the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into the hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate. So donвЂ™t worry, I will explain their differences in the future, though right now I donвЂ™t have much time and IвЂ™m going on veeery slowly. GaudiвЂ™s architecture is always part of the Art Nouveau, but itвЂ™s different from everything else before him. I donвЂ™t want to spoil anything, but for example, IвЂ™m thinking to compare a little bit of Parc GГјellВ in Barcelona with Mirkwood. And we can clearly see it in the shape of their architectures. As I wrote on the blog, that вЂњArt NouveauвЂќ article was a general one, an introduction of a bigger topic as much as Noldor, Sindar and Silvan Elves have their differences, some general elements are the same: the love of nature, first of all - and that was the part I needed most. Of course they are different, and so the Elves who founded them. Secondly, IвЂ™m glad youвЂ™ve found the articles interesting and I assure you that IвЂ™m working on other three of them, regarding the unique details of the three Elven cities youвЂ™ve mentioned. But you donвЂ™t need a Wordpress account to leave a comment there, you can do it as guest. First thing first, thank you so much for stopping by and for leaving a comment.

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