Beacon-hills of Gondor

The Beacon-hills of Gondor were a group of foot-hills which the Gondorians placed great fireplaces on to act as an alarm system to warn the Kingdom of Gondor in the event of an attack.
==History==
The Beacon-hills of Gondor were seven foot-hills in the range of the White Mountains on which were placed great beacons. These Beacon-hills were permanently manned by Gondorians. From east to west they were; Amon Dîn, Eilenach, Nardol, Erelas, Min-Rimmon, Calenhad, and Amon Anwar (or Halifirien). Amon Dîn, Eilenach, and Min-Rimmon were the oldest of the Beacon-hills of Gondor.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Ch. I: "Minas Tirith"Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, Part Three: The Third Age, chapter II: "Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan" The Beacon-wardens who manned the beacon on Halifirien dwelt in the Firien Wood.
In the late Second Age and early Third Age, the Beacon-hills of Gondor mainly served to warn southern Gondor of a danger to the northern province of Calenardhon, or vice versa, but after the Steward of Gondor Cirion granted Calenardhon to the Éothéod, they were used mainly to warn the people in Anórien of danger. Calls for aid between Gondor and Rohan were exchanged by a messenger carrying the Red Arrow instead.
During the War of the Ring, the beacon system on the Beacon-hills was utilized on March 9 3019, two days before the Siege of Gondor by Sauron's army began.
==In adaptations==
One of the major changes made to the story by Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is that when Gandalf and Pippin ride to Minas Tirith, the beacons were not lit, since the despairing Denethor has decided not to send for help. In the movie there is a beacon just above the city, and to summon the Rohirrim, Gandalf asks Pippin to evade the guards and light it. Once he has done so, the film depicts the other beacons being lit one by one until the last is sighted by Aragorn who is in Edoras, and it is this (and not the Red Arrow, which is not mentioned in the film) which finally helps him to persuade Théoden to muster the Rohirrim to Gondor's aid.
In the films, there can appear more beacons than the seven described in the book - however, the filmmakers actually displayed each beacon being lit from several angles, such that beacons shown up-close are seen again in the distance of the next shot. The film does differ from Tolkien's writings in placing the first beacon directly above Minas Tirith, instead of atop the separate hill of Amon Dîn. The beacons are seen situated at considerable altitudes that would make permanent manning impractical, and generating sufficient flame very difficult. The last beacon, Halifirien, is not within view of Edoras in the books.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Baken-heuwels van Gondor
Albanian 	Kodrat e fenerit të Gondorit
Arabic 	تلال بيكون في غوندور
Armenian 	Գոնդորի փարոս բլուրներ
Azerbaijani 	Gondorun Mayak Təpələri
Basque 	Gondorreko Baliza muinoak
Belarusian Cyrillic	Маяковыя пагоркі Гондара
Bengali 	গন্ডোরের বীকন পাহাড়
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Бийкън хълмове на Гондор
Catalan 	Turons de balises de Góndor
Chinese 	刚铎的灯塔山
Croatian 	Svjetionik brežuljci Gondora
Czech 	Majákové kopce Gondoru
Danish 	Gondors Ledestjerne-bakker
Dutch 	Bakenheuvels van Gondor
Esperanto 	Signostangomontetoj de Gondor
Estonian 	Gondori majakamäed
Faroese 	Gondors Ljósmerkifjøllunum
Finnish 	Gondorin kokkovaarat
French 	Collines balisedu du Gondor
Frisian 	Beaken heuvels fan Gondor (Western)
Galician 	Baliza-outeiros de Gondor
German 	Leuchtfeuerberge von Gondor
Greek 	Υφαλοδείκτης λόφοι του Γκόντορ
Hebrew 	גבעות הביקון של גונדור
Hindi 	गोंडोर की बीकन पहाड़ियाँ
Hungarian 	Gondor Jeladó Dombjai
Icelandic 	Vegvitar hæðirnar í Gondor
Indonesian 	Bukit-bikit Rambu suar Gondor
Italian 	Colline di Segnalazione di Gondor
Japanese 	ゴンドールのビーコンヒルズ
Kannada 	ಗೊಂಡೋರ್ನ ಬೀಕನ್ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳು
Kazakh 	Гондордың Маяк төбелері (Cyrillic) Gondordıñ Mayak töbeleri (Latin)
Korean 	곤도르의 등대 언덕
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Гондордун Маяк адырлары
Latvian 	Gondoras Bākukalni
Lithuanian 	Gondoro Švyturių kalvos
Luxembourgish 	Beaken hiwwele vu Gondor
Macedonian Cyrillic	Ридовите на светилникот на Гондор
Malayalam 	ഗോണ്ടോറിലെ ബീക്കൺ കുന്നുകൾ
Malaysian 	Bukit-bukit suar Gondor
Maltese 	Għoljiet xempju ta' Gondor
Maori 	Nga Puke rama rama o Gondor
Marathi 	गोंडोरच्या बीकन टेकड्या
Nepalese 	गोन्डोरको बीकन पहाडहरू
Norwegian 	Gondors Fyrtårn-bakker
Pashto 	د ګونډور د بیکن غونډۍ
Persian 	تپه های فانوس دریایی گوندور
Polish 	Wzgórza latarniane Gondoru
Portuguese 	Colinas Baliza de Gondor
Punjabi 	ਗੋਂਡੋਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਬੀਕਨ ਪਹਾੜੀਆਂ
Romanian 	Dealurile Far din Gondor
Russian 	Сигнальные холмы Гондора
Sanskrit 	गोण्डोरस्य बीकनपर्वताः
Sardinian 	Colinas de su farru de Gondor
Serbian 	Светионик брда Гондора (Cyrillic) Svetionik brda Gondora (Latin)
Sicilian 	Collini di faro di Gondor
Sinhalese 	ගොන්ඩෝර් වල බීකන් කඳු
Slovak 	Majákové kopce Gondoru
Slovenian 	Svetilnik griči Gondorja
Spanish 	Almenaras colinas de Gondor
Swahili 	Vilima ya Mwangaza ya Gondor
Swedish 	Gondors Fyrbåk kullar
Tajik Cyrillic 	Теппаҳои машъали Гондор
Tamil 	கோண்டோர் பெக்கான் மலைகள்
Tatar 	Гондорның Маяк калкулыклары
Telugu 	గోండోర్ యొక్క బెకన్ కొండలు
Thai 	เนินเขาบีคอนแห่งกอนดอร์
Turkish 	Gondor'un Işaret Tepeleri
Turkmen 	Gondoryň Maýak Depeleri
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Маякові Гори Гондору
Urdu 	گونڈور کی بیکن ہلز
Uzbek 	Гондорнинг Маёқли тепаликлари (Cyrillic) Gondorning Mayoqli tepaliklari (Latin)
Venetian 	Colline de faro de Gondor
Vietnamese 	Đồi Đèn hiệu của Gondor
Yiddish 	ביקאַן היללס פון גאָנדאָר
Yoruba 	Beakoni Òke ti Gondor
==References==
Category:Beacon-hills of Gondor
Category:Hills of Middle-earth
Category:White Mountains
Category:Gondor
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ru:Сигнальные Холмы