Here's is where Isildur reigned in a valley backing up to the mountains of eastern Ithilien, where the White Tree was planted.

It's Romanesque in design, with white marble walls, buildings, and tower, which according to lore was designed to reflect moonlight, bathing the city in a luminous glow. In this new look at Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Monolith Productions discusses how it created the doomed, Gondorian city of Minas Ithil.Īccording to Monolith, members of the team conducted extensive research on the buildings seen in Middle-earth: Shadow of War, and enlisted the help of an illustrator - who is also an architect - to design Minas Ithil.