<P> Notes made by Tolkien on a map found in 2015 indicates that Minas Tirith was inspired by the Italian city of Ravenna . However, some online sources, commenting on the alleged inspiration for Minas Tirith, have mistakenly displayed photos of the mountaintop city of San Marino (capital of the Republic of San Marino) and its walls and fortresses as images of Ravenna . </P> <P> Tolkien's description of the physical layout of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, (the city also has a cameo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when Gandalf goes there to discern the identity of Bilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) Jackson's version interprets the top of the rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of Aragorn . As with most other landmarks in the film, the city is portrayed as relatively isolated (the Rammas and Gondor's abundant populace are virtually not featured); the absence of these features is mentioned on the original DVD commentary . </P> <P> Portions of Minas Tirith were constructed as full - scale sets, and the whole city as a very large, highly detailed miniature or "bigature" by Weta Workshop . Weta Digital, a division of Weta Workshop, created a remarkably detailed three - dimensional digital model for CGI shots, along with the whole of its surrounding environment including the Pelennor Fields and Mindolluin (but not the Rammas Echor, which was visually omitted from the films despite being mentioned in the dialogue, where Théoden gave the order to the Rohirrim beginning "After you pass the Wall ..." quoted directly from the book). The set was built on the foundations of the disassembled Helm's Deep set . </P> <P> Canonically, in total the city is about 1,000 ft (305 m) tall--"(above the citadel) the banner of the Stewards floated a thousand feet above the plain" (Vi). The towering bastion of stone, shaped like the keel of a ship, which rose from behind the Great Gates on the first level to the citadel on the seventh, was 700 ft (213 m) tall, and the Tower of Ecthelion was 300 ft (91 m) tall (Vi). </P>

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