Was Minas Tirith modeled after Gondolin? - Quora

Answer (1 of 4): Not really. Gondolin was built on a hill in the middle of a bowl-shaped depression surrounded by mountains. (Tolkien is fond of geologically improbable circular valleys; Isengard was another one.) I think Gondolin was otherwise a fairly conventional city. Minas Tirith, on the oth

What does Minas Tirith actually look like according to Tolkien? - Quora

Was Minas Tirith modeled after Gondolin? - Quora

Was Minas Tirith modeled after Gondolin? - Quora

Was Minas Tirith modeled after Gondolin? - Quora

What city inspired Minas Tirith? - Quora

How big was the city of Gondolin? - Quora

Shouldn't Minas Anor (Tirith) be dwarfed in size/wow-factor by Minas Ithil, Osgiliath, Fornost, and Annuminas? It seems like Tolkien artists disagree, because all the depictions of the other cities are either non-existent

What is the real size of Minas Tirith in the Peter Jackson trilogy (diameter, the height of the Citadel and the Ecthelion Tower)? - Quora

What happened to Osgiliath after Aragorn took back Minas Tirith in 'The Return of the King'? - Quora

What does Minas Tirith actually look like according to Tolkien? - Quora

Did Tolkien describe the arrival of the ghost army at Minas Tirith? Did I miss it? Or was it just in the movie? - Quora