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Originally Posted by Inziladun
I still wondered, too, why Gondor got an indestructible tower and similar wall, while Arnor lost out.
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It may also be that these structures were fashioned from geologic features (as Fonstad suggests in "The Atlas of Middle Earth"), perhaps the remnants of a basaltic flow which the Numenoreans simply worked and carved, rather than "built" from scratch.
"Gondor" does, after all, mean (literally) "Stone-Land" and so would be more likely to have such features to be used and shaped than Eriador (where Arnor was established).