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Rath Dínen

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Place in Arda
Name Rath Dinen (Silent Street)
Other Names Tombs of Kings
Description The location of the Kings of Gondor and later, the Stewards
Constructed By Probably Elendil and his sons
Realm
 
Gondor
 Minas Tirith
Lord Kings of Gondor
Type Street
Lifespan

The Rath Dínen (Sindarin for Silent Street) is the pathway between the city of Minas Tirith and Mindolluin in Gondor.

Accessed from a doorway known as Fen Hollen (The Closed Door) on the sixth level of the city, the Rath Dínen was the hallowed road where the Kings and Stewards of Gondor constructed their ornate and expensive tombs, known as the Houses of the Dead.

After the War of the Ring, the dead White Tree that had stood in the uppermost courtyard of the city was interred there, replaced with a new seedling found growing on the side of Mindolluin by Gandalf.

The hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took were honoured with tombs in the Rath Dínen when they died, having spent their final years in Gondor in the company of King Aragorn II Elessar, who was interred there himself in FO 120.

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