One of the tall hills at the southern end of Nen Hithoel, above the Falls of Rauros, on the lake's western shore. In the early days of Gondor, it lay near that kingdom's northern boundary. The Dúnedain of the South built a high seat on its summit, and a stone stairway leading up the hill to its peak. From that high place they could survey the South-kingdom and the lands that bordered it.
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We have no specific information about the origins of the Seat of Seeing on the Hill of Sight. It likely dated from the time of the settlement of Gondor in the last years of the Second Age, when many great structures were erected across the new realm. The nearby Gates of Argonath, however, dated from much later in Gondor's history (probably about the year III 1250) and it is plausible that the Seat of Seeing was not put in place until this later date.
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