- "I see a white stream that comes down from the snows", he said. "Where it issues from the shadow of the vale a green hill rises upon the east. A dike and mighty wall and thorny fence encircle it. Within there rise the roofs of houses; and in the midst, set upon a green terrace, there stands aloft a great hall of Men. And it seems to my eyes that it is thatched with gold. The light of it shines far over the land. Golden, too, are the posts of its doors."
- —Legolas, seeing Edoras from afar
Edoras was the capital city of Rohan.
History
The city of Edoras was built on a hill in a valley of the White Mountains by Rohan's second King, Brego son of Eorl the Young. Before this, Rohan's capital was at Aldburg in the Folde.
It was here that Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf met with King Théoden in the year TA 3019.[1]
Geography
The city's front gate, as seen at Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli's arrival
Edoras was built at the end of the valley of Harrowdale, which lay under the great mountain Starkhorn. The river Snowbourn flowed past the city on its way west towards the Entwash. As Rohan consisted of mostly small villages and farmsteads, Edoras was the location most like a city within the nation's borders, and held the Golden Hall of Meduseld.
Portrayal in adaptations
Films
For Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, a fully realized set for Edoras was built on Mount Sunday in the upper reaches of the Rangitata Valley, near Erewhon.
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Translations
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Amharic | ዐዶራስ |
| Arabic | إيدورس |
| Armenian | Եդորաս |
| Belarusian Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Bengali | এদরাস |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Catalan | Édoras |
| Georgian | ედორასი |
| Greek | Εδορασ |
| Gujarati | ઍદોરસ |
| Hebrew | אדוראס |
| Hindi | एदोरस |
| Japanese | エドラス |
| Kazakh | Едорас (Cyrillic) Edoras (Latin) |
| Korean | 에도라스 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Эдорас |
| Macedonian Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Marathi | एदोरस |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Nepalese | एदोरस |
| Pashto | ېدوراس |
| Persian | ادوراس |
| Russian | Эдорас |
| Serbian | Едорас (Cyrillic) Edoras (Latin) |
| Sinhalese | ඒදොරස් |
| Tajik Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Tamil | ஏதொரஸ் |
| Telugu | ఏదొరస |
| Thai | เอโดรัส |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Едорас |
| Urdu | ادوراس |
| Uzbek | Едорас (Cyrillic) Edoras (Latin) |
| Yiddish | עדאָראַס |
References
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Three, Chapter VI: "The King of the Golden Hall"