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During the War of the Ring, Peregrin Took, a companion of Aragorn's in The Fellowship of the Ring, became a member of the elite Citadel Guard at Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor.
Emyn Arnen, a series of hills at the centre of Ithilien, south of Osgiliath, stands opposite Minas Tirith across Anduin; around it the river makes a bend.
The three titles became known as the Middle-earth trilogy, with a reference in the instructions to Dungeon Adventure to the city of Minas Tirith, which features in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
In letters to Rayner Unwin Tolkien considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol.
In the novel, Denethor's carefully timed cavalry charge is targeted against the advancing Enemy in the open terrain near Minas Tirith, and actually rescues Faramir and his forces that were defending the Pelennor fields outside the city (Faramir was struck down by a "Southron chieftain" and was about to be finished off when the cavalry arrived).