Minas Morgûl

Minas Ithil (S. ‘Tower of the Rising Mo on’).This city was founded as one of the two main fortresses of Gondor in Second Age 3320 and was known as Isildur’s city, the twin of Minas Anor on the other side of the wide valley of the Anduin river. It rested on a shelf that projected from the inward side of the southern arm of the Ithil Vale where the Ithilduin issued from the mountains. In the year Third Age 2002 the city was captured by the Nazgûl and became known as 'Minas Morgûl (Orc. "Dushgoi"), it was utterly destroyed by Elessar’s forces after Sauron’s fall.