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Founded by Elendil and his sons at the end of the Second Age, Osgiliath straddled the Great River Anduin at a point approximately half way between the cities of Minas Anor to the west and Minas Ithil to the east. After Minas Ithil fell and became Minas Morgul, Osgiliath came under siege and was eventually abandoned, and the capital was moved to Minas Anor - now renamed Minas Tirith. During the War of the Ring the men of Gondor were hard pressed to prevent the enemy from breaking through at Osgiliath and were eventually forced to abandon it, shortly before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. After the destruction of the One Ring, Osgiliath was rebuilt, but it never became as great as it once was. Minas Tirith remained the capital and King's city.

The name "Osgiliath" is Sindarin for "Dome of Stars", referring to the city's most prominent building, a great dome which once housed the city's PalantírA palantir is a magical artifact from J. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth. A palantir (sometimes translated as Seeing Stone but actually meaning "One that sees from afar") is a stone that functions somewhat like a crystal ball. When one looks. (Osgiliath's Palantír was lost in the river, during the Kin-strifeIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, the Kin-strife was a disastrous civil war in Gondor. The unrest that created the Kin-strife began when Valacar, the son of the Gondorian king Romendacil II, married a woman of the Northmen of Rhovanion, Vidumavi. She bore him in the time of EldacarEldacar is the name of two fictional characters in J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth. The fourth King of Arnor was named Eldacar. The twenty-first King of Gondor was also named Eldacar., T.A.The Third Age is a fictional time period from J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth. The Third Age began after the first downfall of Sauron, when he was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men following the downfall of Numenor. This age was charact 1437.)

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