Amon Hen was a hill on the original northern borders of Gondor, standing above the western banks of Nen Hithoel above Rauros. On its summit, the Gondorians had constructed a high seat: a chair held up from the hill on four tall pillars, and reached by a long flight of stone steps. The makers of the seat had constructed it with the power to enhance vision, so that a viewer seated there could look out across Gondor and its neighbouring lands and see events there with astonishing clarity.
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We are not told with any degree of certainty when the Seat was raised on Amon Hen, other than the fact that it was ancient at the end of the Third Age (our only guide is Aragorn's rather ambiguous comment that it was made '...in the days of the great kings' in The Fellowship of the Ring II 9, The Great River). On balance, it seems likely that the Seat was one of the many great works produced by the first Gondorians, before the end of the Second Age. We do know, however, that some of the constructions in this region dated from rather later (the Pillars of the Argonath were raised in about the year III 1250) and the Seat may conceivably have been among these later developments.
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