The capital of Rohan is the hill fort of Edoras which is located on a hill in a valley of the White Mountains.

" Edoras " is Old English for " enclosures ", which Tolkien held to be a translation of an unknown Rohirric name of the same meaning.

Edoras is Rohan's only real city.

It is similar in appearance to the hill-fort of Edoras.

The interiors of buildings such as the Golden Hall, however, were located on soundstages in other parts of New Zealand ; when the camera is inside of the Golden Hall, looking out the open gates, the image of the on-set Edoras set is digitally inserted into the door-frame.

* September 19 – 21-Gandalf reaches Edoras and is given Shadowfax the horse

* July-King Théoden is laid to rest beside other Kings of Rohan in Edoras.

The city of Edoras was built by Rohan's second King, Brego son of Eorl the Young.

A fully realised set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday, at Mt Potts Station in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand.

A fully realised set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, near Erewhon in New Zealand.

His schemes were foiled when Gandalf the White and his companions arrived at Edoras.

In Unfinished Tales Tolkien writes that on the 20th of September in Gríma was captured by the Nazgûl in the fields of the Rohirrim, while on his way to Isengard to inform Saruman of Gandalf's arrival at Edoras.

Before Edoras was completed, Rohan's capital was at Aldburg in the Folde.

In times of war, the starting beacon at Amon Dîn would be lit, until the last one could be noticed in Edoras.

Originally the First Marshal was responsible for the area around Edoras, while the Second and Third Marshals were assigned various territories depending on the need at the time.

In the text, the women and children of Edoras are sheltered at Dunharrow.

The river formed the Rangitata Valley, in the center of the Southern Alps, and the on-location photography of the Edoras set from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Return of the King was filmed in this valley, on and around Mount Sunday.

He was widely disliked in Edoras ; everyone except Théoden called him " Wormtongue ", for his malicious words were like that of a serpent.

Edoras in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Gríma Wormtongue's plans were not revealed until Gandalf arrived in Edoras during the War of the Ring.

Meanwhile, Gandalf drove Gríma Wormtongue out of Edoras and went to gather Erkenbrand's scattered forces, advising King Théoden to move to the stronghold of Helm's Deep.

The women and children of Théoden's capital Edoras were safe in Dunharrow, led by the King's niece Éowyn.

When the Eagles heard about Gollum's escape from Mirkwood, they sent Gwaihir to bear the news to Isengard, as they had been told by Radagast ; the eagle espied Gandalf imprisoned upon the top of the tower and carried him to Edoras.

* March 1-Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli meet the resurrected Gandalf the White in Fangorn Forest while looking for Merry and Pippin, and they head off for Edoras.

In that movie, the people of Rohan, fearing an attack of superior numbers by the armies of Isengard, leave their capital city of Edoras to take refuge in the fortress of Helm's Deep.

Methven also served as a base to cast and crew for the filming of Edoras ( located further inland ), for The Lord of the Rings.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

This shelter could be built in regions where water or rock is close to the surface, making it impractical to build an underground shelter.

The shelter illustrated in figure 12 is based on such a room built in a new home in the Washington, D.C. area in the Spring of 1959.

The new Warwick plant is being built at our expense and under our direction.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

The interlocking frame we built at the model railroader workshop and then installed on Paul Larson's railroad follows the Fig. 1 scheme and is shown beginning in Fig. 7, page 65, and in the photos.

Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.

Last year Beyeler arranged to sell $1,500,000 worth of Klees to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which will house them in a museum that is yet to be built.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

With such a dream arising, at least in part, from the Protestant heritage of the United States and built into the foundations of the nation, it is not surprising that many efforts were made to give it concrete expression.

Its size is determined by its function as a glycogen and fat storage unit, and may change with the seasons as these reserves are built or used up.

First a raft is built first, then eggs are laid in the centre, and then a foam cap is placed.

One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country-wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis.

Several robot cities have been planned for the country: the first will be built in 2009 at a cost of 500 billion won, of which 50 billion is direct government investment.

In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the figure who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood.