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Dates
The tower of Minas Tirith was built on this island soon after the Return of the Noldor; the tower was destroyed in I 465, and the island itself at the end of the First Age
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Sirion flowed around the island from its sources at Eithel Sirion to the north
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Pronunciation
to'l si'rion
Meaning
Other names
After its capture by Sauron, the island was known as Tol-in-Gaurhoth, the Isle of Werewolves, or simply as Sauron's Isle
Note
The Minas Tirith built on this island fell thousands of years before the War of the Ring, and was quite distinct from the much later City of Gondor of the Third Age
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Tol SirionThe island where the first Minas Tirith stood![]() The island on the upper reaches of the River Sirion where Finrod Felagund built the tower of Minas Tirith, renamed Tol-in-Gaurhoth after its capture by Sauron. Notes
See also...Isle of Werewolves, Morgoth, Narrow Land, Sauron, Sauron’s Isle, South Road, The Highway Indexes: About this entry:
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