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MrHobit1234 wrote:

Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: Frankly it is used to describe anything really hard... it was said the tower of Carn Dum was 'crowned with adamant' and for some reason I doubt the witch king would tip his fortress with a sparkly diamond tower. Where did it say this? I don't know where it said it, but I do know that the Barad-dûr was described as a "tower of adamant," in LOTR book 6 (the second part of Return of the King) when Frodo and Sam watched the tower's destruction from Orodruin. And, let's be honest, I don't think Sauron would use diamonds to build a tower WHOSE NAME LITERALLY TRANSLATES TO "THE DARK TOWER." I don't know about you, but diamond is a bit too bright for a dark tower and too brittle to withstand whatever was being hurled at it during the siege of Barad-dûr (which, by the way, did NOT happen during the War of the Ring at the end of the Third Age, but rather at the end of the Second Age.  You know, when Elendil and Gil-galad were alive.)