File talk:Narfil Palùrfalas - Gondolin Plan.jpg

Great work

Just wanted to congratulate Narfil Palùrfalas on this image, it looks great and must have taken a lot of work. --Hyarion 20:02, 12 May 2006 (EDT)

3d Image

I have been making a 3d model of Gondolin on Bryce, a computer graphics program, accurate to the book. I hope to finish it in a week or so. --Narfil Palùrfalas 16:50, 17 May 2006 (EDT)

If it's as good as the city plans you've made, I think it would be wonderful! --Earendilyon 02:58, 18 May 2006 (EDT)

It's almost done - another week or so. Now all I need to do is create and add in the buildings. I do have a question, though. Based on Tolkien's descriptions, what style of buildings do you think the Gondothlim would live in? Should they be Anglo-Saxon style (probably not, as Gondolin was a city of stone)? Grecian? Roman? As well, should they be simple stone buildings, or fantastic works of architecture? --Narfil Palùrfalas 11:12, 1 June 2006 (EDT)

Tolkien envisioned his legendarium as the folk history that England never had (Book of Lost Tales), since King Arthur and the Round Table was essentially imported from France. Since Gondolin was Tolkien's pride and joy, I think an Anglo-Saxon style would work best. And if that doesn't look very good, you could always base it off of Nasmith's Tirion, since that's what Turgon did.--Ebakunin 12:41, 1 June 2006 (EDT)

Nasmith's Tirion looks more like a cross between Byzantine and Islamic architecture, with a bit of Grecian thrown in. The problem with Anglo-Saxon is that most Anglo-Saxon houses were made of wood with thatched roofs. I suppose it depends on what culture Tolkien pictured the Noldor as. Perhaps I can find something in his letters... --Narfil Palùrfalas 13:19, 1 June 2006 (EDT)

I think I've read somewhere that Gondor had a Byzantine feel to it. See a (short) thread on it @ Minas Tirith, or this longer one, also @ MT, titled Roman Empire / Gondor Similarities. --Earendilyon 16:47, 1 June 2006 (EDT)