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High King Ithilion wrote: Gondor is nothing like Egypt technology-wise, save in their love of stone architecture.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) 20:52, September 13, 2017 (UTC)

Just quoting mrhobbits statements from a while back, he said Tolkien wrote letters on gondor being Egypt and of Venice. I have read the letter though.