SIEGE OF MINAS ITHIL - Third Age Total War
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Battle of Minas Ithil
"A long-tilted valley, a deep gulf of shadow, ran back far into the mountains. Upon the further side, some way within the valley's arms, high on a rocky seat upon the black knees of the Ephel Dúath, stood the walls and towers of Minas Morgul. All was dark about it, earth and sky, but it was lit with light. Not the imprisoned moonlight welling through the marble walls of Minas Ithil long ago, Tower of the Moon, fair and radiant in the hollow of the hills. Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing."
After the destruction of Númenor, the escapees landed in Middle-earth where they founded realms-in-exile. The sons of Elendil (Isildur and Anárion) landed in Gondor, and Isildur was assigned its eastern province of Ithilien. There he built the city of Minas Ithil on the south side of a pleasant valley in the mountains bordering Mordor. (At the same time Anárion built the twin city of Minas Anor further west across the Anduin. The brothers had their thrones side by side in Osgiliath, the first capital of Gondor.) Isildur planted a sapling of the White Tree Nimloth outside his home in Minas Ithil, and one of the seven palantíri was kept in the tower. The city's white marble walls, buildings, and tower were designed to catch and reflect the moonlight, and shone with a soft silver luminescence.
Sauron had survived Númenor's destruction, but his return to Mordor was not known until he attacked the exiles of Númenor.
In SA 3429, Sauron sent a huge army from Gorgoroth to besiege Minas Ithil. An army of Gondorians under Isildur defended the city. In the course of the siege, Sauron's forces drove into the fortress and set fire to the White Tree. Isildur, his wife, his sons, and an unknown number of Gondorian soldiers escaped the citadel, and Isildur brought with him a seedling of the White Tree. Isildur's family retreated to Elendil, while Anárion, hearing of the fall of Minas Ithil, sent a strong force to garrison Osgiliath in the advent of attack.
Following the capture of Minas Ithil, the Army of Mordor terrorized the Eastern side of the Anduin, then a territory of Gondor. The battle sparked the War of the Last Alliance, and led to the Western kingdoms forming an alliance to, so they hoped, stop Sauron once and for all. Minas Ithil was retaken a year later, but by the Third Age, the citadel was nearly abandoned.
But in TA 2002, a sudden army under the command of the witchking and the nazghul arrived at Minas Ithil....Can the defenders hold this precious stronghold for gondor or will the forces of darkness reclaim a precious stronghold?....
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