A few days later, the army of Sauron and its siege-towers are seen crossing through the city over repaired bridges. In the following movie, Osgiliath is featured in many scenes, including that of its western half's final seizure by Orcs, led by Gothmog at night, in a battle lost and fled by Faramir and the defenders. In the Extended Edition, the three are seen escaping from Osgiliath via its sewers.īoromir speaking to the people of Gondor after its western shore was defended in TA 3018 Frodo is drawn to the wraith, at a bridge, but Faramir fends it off, and afterwards soon releases them. A Nazgûl upon a Fellbeast attacks the city, and the company scatters. Since he had captured Sam, Frodo and Gollum, he takes them there by force. Fourth Age and beyondĪfter Sauron was defeated and the Fourth Age began, Aragorn II Elessar, the new King of Gondor, may have rebuilt the city, but he kept Minas Tirith as his capital.Īt the end of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Faramir leads his Rangers from Henneth Annûn to Osgiliath, which is under light bombardment by Orcs on its eastern side. Gothmog later deployed these forces against Gondor and their allies in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. When he led the bulk of his army to besiege Minas Tirith, the Witch-king left some reserves in Osgiliath. Though they met with determined opposition from Faramir and the Osgiliath garrison, they were able to cross with fewer casualties than the defenders had hoped, and Faramir ordered a general retreat to the Rammas Echor. But when the Witch-king and his armies attacked Gondor in March 3019, it was revealed that Sauron's forces had secretly built many floats and barges in East Osgiliath. It was while he was on guard in West Osgiliath in February 3019 that Faramir saw Boromir's funeral boat. Thus, a key part of Gondor's defensive strategy after the loss of East Osgiliath was to hold West Osgiliath and oppose any attempt at crossing the river. Osgiliath was one of the few places between Rauros and the sea where large armies could cross the Anduin without needing many boats.
In June 3018, however, a detachment of Sauron's forces, led by the Nazgûl, again took the east bank, and the defenders, led by Boromir and Faramir, were forced to retreat, destroying the bridge they had built. In TA 3019, Beregond recounted to Pippin how Gondor recaptured East Osgiliath a few decades before the War of the Ring (".in the days of the youth of Denethor."), for use as a military outpost and to secure a crossing of the Anduin.
Though they were thrown back by Boromir, son of the then-Steward Denethor I, Osgiliath was finally ruined and completely abandoned, and its great bridge was broken. The final blow came in TA 2475, when Uruks of Mordor overran and captured Osgiliath. The decline of the city was greatly accelerated by the Great Plague of TA 1636 and Osgiliath began to fall into ruin, with King Tarondor moving the capital to Minas Anor in TA 1640. Decline started with the Kin-strife when Osgiliath was sacked and burned by the forces of Castamir the Usurper in TA 1437 and the city's palantír was lost in the Anduin. During the War of the Last Alliance the city was attacked by Sauron's forces but was successfully defended by Anárion.Īt the height of Gondor's power the city was a reflection of the splendour of Númenor's cities, but this was not to last. Ruling Gondor jointly, Osgiliath was their joint capital. The city was founded by Isildur and Anárion near the end of the Second Age, built on either side of the Anduin river.
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