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Post by branwyn on Nov 17, 2006 23:55:58 GMT
Anyone know where the commoners of Minas Tirith are buried?  Does Tolkien say anything about it? Is there a necropolis on the Pelennor fields? |
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Post by Radbooks on Nov 24, 2006 5:05:17 GMT
Oh, good question... I don't think he says anything about it, but there would have to be something on the Pelennor, wouldn't there?
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Post by lindahoyland on Nov 24, 2006 5:22:14 GMT
I always assumed the Pelennor fields were farmland to grow crops to feed Minas Tirith, but there could have been a graveyard there too.
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Post by branwyn on Nov 24, 2006 15:25:29 GMT
That would make sense.
The stewards were embalmed so preservation of the body was important. I wonder if wealthier people were buried in crypts or even in above ground structures (in imitation of the House of the Stewards in Rath Dinen.) :-/I often wish Tolkien were alive so we could ask him these things (and so he could write more stories for us)!
Thanks, Linda and Radbooks!
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Post by lindahoyland on Nov 25, 2006 1:20:02 GMT
Maybe a study of how the poor were buried in ancient Egypt would provide more clues? I think they were mummified in the desert,which Gondor doesn't have, but that is just half remembered information from a TV programme I once watched.
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