Location from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The great townlands before Minas Tirith — fertile fields turned killing ground in the largest battle of the War of the Ring, where the fate of Men was decided.
In peacetime, the Pelennor smells of turned earth and growing things — it is the breadbasket of Minas Tirith, the farmland that feeds the city. But the fields were made for war as much as agriculture: flat, open ground that gives defenders on the walls clear sight-lines and denies cover to attackers. The Rammas Echor — the outer wall — is a speed bump, not a fortress, designed to slow an advance and buy time. During the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the landscape transforms into a nightmare of industrial warfare. The ground shakes with the footsteps of cave trolls and mûmakil. Siege towers roll forward like mobile buildings. The sky darkens with arrows and the winged Nazgûl circle overhead. The sound is overwhelming — the roar of tens of thousands of combatants, the crash of siege engines, the screaming of horses. And then, at dawn, the horns of Rohan from the north, and six thousand riders cresting the hill in a line that stretches from one horizon to the other. The charge of the Rohirrim across the Pelennor is the single most dramatic military moment of the age.
A broad, flat expanse of farmland and pasture stretching from the walls of Minas Tirith to the river Anduin, enclosed by the Rammas Echor — a low outer wall. Normally green with crops and dotted with farmsteads. During the siege: churned mud, siege engines, thousands of orc campfires, the massive dark shapes of mûmakil, and smoke from burning farms obscuring the sky. The white walls of Minas Tirith rising behind like a cliff of stone.
Also known as: Pelennor Fields, the Pelennor, the Townlands