Houses of the Dead, Rath Dínen, Minas Tirith

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The Houses of the Dead on Rath Dínen in Minas Tirith are the silent tombs and mausoleums where the noble dead of Gondor, including its stewards and kings, are laid to rest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf burial place
fictional location
mausoleums
tombs
accessedVia Rath Dínen
adjacentTo Rath Dínen street of tombs
appearsInVolume The Return of the King
appearsInWork The Lord of the Rings
associatedWithCity Minas Tirith
associatedWithCulture Dúnedain of Gondor
associatedWithHouse House of Húrin (Stewards of Gondor)
associatedWithRealm Reunited Kingdom of Gondor and Arnor
associatedWithTitle King of Gondor
linked to: Kings of Gondor

Steward of Gondor
belongsToFranchise Middle-earth legendarium
characteristic sacred
silent
contains mausoleums
tombs of the kings of Gondor
tombs of the stewards of Gondor
createdBy J. R. R. Tolkien
genre high fantasy
governedByCustomsOf funerary rites of Gondor
hasAtmosphere solemn
hasFunction royal necropolis
languageOfName Sindarin
locatedIn Gondor
Minas Tirith
locatedInFictionalWorld Middle-earth
medium literature
notableEvent Denethor II attempts to burn himself and Faramir on a funeral pyre there
partOf Rath Dínen
setInTimePeriod late Third Age of Middle-earth
symbolizes continuity of Gondorian rule
reverence for the dead in Gondor
usedForBurialOf kings of Gondor
linked to: Kings of Gondor

nobles of Gondor
stewards of Gondor
visitedByCharacter Beregond
Denethor II
Faramir
Gandalf
Peregrin Took

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Denethor II placeOfDeath Houses of the Dead, Rath Dínen, Minas Tirith
Rath Dínen adjacentTo Houses of the Dead in Minas Tirith
linked to: Houses of the Dead, Rath Dínen, Minas Tirith