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These two sketches were published together in The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977. The illustration of Orthanc, the tower of Isengard, is one of several different conceptions sketched by J. R. R. Tolkien, but this agrees best with the description in The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 8, The Road to Isengard: 'A peak and isle of rock it was, black and gleaming hard: four mighty piers of many-sided stone were welded into one, but near the summit they opened into gaping horns, their pinnacles sharp as the points of spears, keen-edged as knives.'
The unfinished picture of Minas Tirith is entitled Stanburg in Feanorian (Elvish) letters, and Stanburg and Steinborg in Roman letters (only the latter visible in the reproduction). Stanburg is Old English (and Steinborg Old Norse), meaning 'Stone-fortress, Stone-city';
Minas Tirith was called 'Stone-city' by the Woses (the Wild Men of the Woods in the White Mountains) in The Return of the King, Book V, Chapter 5, though its usual name in Rohan (as translated into Old English) was Mundburg, 'Guardian-fortress'.
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