Lunas Tirith

“	Tox: oh my, how opulent<BR>Dap: I had to do a bit of blending in the terrain, since I'd expanded the tower out just a little, but I'm pretty much done with it.<BR>Tox: very impressive!<BR>Dap: My only fault in the design is that I didn't leave enough space for my smeltery, or even an automatic brewing station. Oh well.<BR>Dap: Forgot to actually put doors on my front entrance though, so now I gotta do something... Can't just have wooden doors in front, can I?<BR>Tox: You could, but the Dragonhollow Homeowner's Association will probably kick you out. They're a draconian bunch...	”
 	—Dap and Tox discuss Lunas Tirith 	—Dap and Tox discuss Lunas Tirith
Lunas Tirith, also known as Dapton Heights, was a tower in the Hammerlands during Dragonhollow Seventh Era.
It was built by Dap and served as his residence, workshop, and the world headquarters of Dapton Solutions. It was located upon a clay foothill at the edge of a wide grassy plain upon the previous site of his modest wood cottage, several hundred meters beyond the Hammerlands Railway's North Line.
At 93 meters in height, the diorite-and-stone skyscraper was the tallest freestanding structure in the region, eclipsed only by the high-speed elevator at Hammerhome when measured from its submerged base.
The tower's superstructure was composed of six concentric tiers. Movement between the tiers was achieved through a proprietary redstone-powered slime block elevator that permitted passengers to stop and start at any level.
The first tier contained a lobby with a polished reflective floor. The second tier's defining feature was an outdoor courtyard esplanade surrounded by greenspace. The third tier held a three-story library containing many books, including the Hammerlea Guide and Cassandra's Thoughts. The fourth tiers and fith were populated with workshops, storage, and living quarters. The uppermost tier housed a treasury, the tower's beacon, a device that would play a tune depending on the time of day, and an open-air observation deck that doubled as a launchpad for elytra flight.
The site was first settled by Dap on 7E:71 when he turned a pre-existing ruined cabin into a modest rural cottage on a small pond. He slowly industrialized the area with quality-of-life improvements such as an automated chicken farm called the McNuggenator. After receiving coordinates from Tox, Dap traveled to a so-called “candy isle” in a distant Hammerlands ocean to collect the vast quantities of diorite necessary to construct a massive tower. On 7E:96, he began construction of Lunas Tirith and continued the work into the final days of the Seventh Era.
Lunas Tirith was presumably destroyed on 7E:120 with the arrival of Nyx, the long foretold Eternal Night.
=Gallery=
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	I've been working on that tower, and I think I've got a pretty decent name for it.	
	—Dap names Lunas Tirith 	—Dap names Lunas Tirith
File:2017-09-12_22.22.52.png|Area before development
File:2017-10-03 20.02.42.png|Dap's cottage at build site
File:2017-10-09_00.57.48.png|Dap mines needed diorite on a “candy isle”
File:2017-10-15_18.26.34.png|Main tower takes shape
File:2017-10-28 00.57.56.png|Dap works on the upper reaches
File:2017-10-28_01.06.08.png|Ghostly interior during construction
File:2017-10-28_01.15.05.png|Dap breaks scaffolding
File:2017-10-28 01.22.29.png|Glowing work at dawn
File:2017-10-28_01.15.03.png|Working hard or hardly working?
File:2017-10-28 01.28.45.png|Building the apex
File:2017-10-28 01.30.59.png|Dap through the keyhole
File:2017-10-28_01.34.03.png|Nearly completed
File:2019-10-16_21.06.12.png|Completed tower
File:2019-10-16_22.08.15.png|Front view
File:2019-10-16_22.53.51.png|Rear view
File:2019-10-16_22.04.35.png|Side view
File:2019-10-16_21.54.08.png|Tower heights
File:2019-10-16_20.37.37.png|Ground entrances
File:2019-10-16_20.38.00.png|Closed door
File:2019-10-16_20.38.18.png|Open door
File:2019-10-16_20.38.37.png|Entering lobby
File:2019-10-16_20.38.45.png|Lobby with reflective floor
File:2019-10-16_20.39.12.png|Second floor
File:2019-10-16_20.39.32.png|Courtyard esplanade
File:2019-10-16_20.39.49.png|Projecting esplanade park
File:2019-10-16_20.40.19.png|Esplanade from above
File:2019-10-16_20.40.37.png|Entering mechanical elevator
File:2019-10-16_20.40.44.png|Elevator shaft
File:2019-10-16_20.41.28.png|The library
File:2019-10-16_20.41.41.png|Library second floor
File:2018-02-19_08.43.07.png|Living quarters
File:2018-02-19_08.41.11.png|Workshop
File:2019-10-16_20.43.52.png|Climbing to the apex
File:2019-10-16_20.44.25.png|Treasury
File:2018-02-19_08.45.03.png|Reaching the top
File:2019-10-16_20.51.21.png|Observation deck
File:2019-10-16_21.03.31.png|The apex
File:2019-10-16_21.06.39.png|Upper reaches
File:2019-10-16_22.15.29.png|'D' for Dapton
File:2019-10-16_22.15.41.png|'S' for Solutions
File:2019-10-16_22.28.33.png|Lunas Tirith
File:2019-10-16_22.44.50.png|At night
=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.
	Dap: i won't leave until this shulker box, my enderchest and my inventory are full<BR>Tox: sounds like a plan<BR>Dap: you're the man, Tox. I think that this much diorite should be enough for my plans :D<BR>Tox: I'm glad to hear it! looking forward to seeing what you make with it	”
	—Dap harvests diorite for Lunas Tirith 	—Dap harvests diorite for Lunas Tirith
The name Lunas Tirith is a reference to Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor in the Lord of the Rings series of fantasy novels and the film series of the same name. The tower's tiered design and white diorite are strongly evocative of Minas Tirith.
As Tirith is a Sindarin word meaning “watch” or “guard” (Minas Tirith is translated as “Tower of the Guard”), the name Lunas Tirith can loosely be translated to mean “Moon Guard”, “Moon Watch”, or perhaps more poetically, “Watcher of the Moons” or “Guardian of the Moons.”
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