"...the Tower of
Ecthelion, standing high within the topmost wall,
1 shone out against the sky, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, tall and fair and shapely, and its pinnacle glittered as if it were wrought of crystals..."
The Return of the King V 1
Minas Tirith
Though a White Tower had graced the highest point of Minas Tirith since ancient times, it was rebuilt by Steward Ecthelion I some three centuries before the War of the Ring, and so gained his name. The Tower of Ecthelion was used to bear the standard of the City, and - at least during the last years of the Third Age - held the palantír known as the Anor-stone.
Notes
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Many earlier editions of The Lord of the Rings have the Tower standing '...within the topmost walls', rather than the singular 'wall'. The reference is to the bounding wall of the seventh and highest circle of Minas Tirith, and so the plural 'walls' in earlier editions appears to have been a simple typographical error. |
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