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Portions of Minas Tirith were constructed as full-scale sets, and the whole city as a very large, highly detailed miniature or " bigature " by Weta Workshop.

A remarkably detailed three-dimensional digital model, for CGI shots, along with the whole of its surrounding environment including the Pelennor Fields and Mindolluin ( but not the Rammas Echor, which was visually omitted from the films, despite being mentioned in the dialogue, where Théoden gave the order to the Rohirrim beginning " After you pass the Wall ..." quoted directly from the book.

) was created by Weta Digital.

The set was built on the foundations of the disassembled Helm's Deep set.