Without doubt the greatest of the Mannish realms of recent history, Gondor stands like a bulwark between Mordor and the rest of the Free world. With every day that passes, it is through the unceasing vigilance and strength of arms that rests within Gondor that peace is bought for many other lands. Such defiance has not been without price, a toll heavily exacted in blood and despair over many long centuries, and Gondor's folk have begun to dwindle while Sauron's forces seem to endlessly replenish their losses. In these later years, it is from Minas Tirith that the heirs of Anárion, and later the Stewards once the line of kings had faded, have ruled the realm of Gondor.

As the last line of Gondor's defence, the Citadel of Minas Tirith is guarded by the finest warriors that Gondor has to offer, tall and mighty warriors in whom the blood of Núménor stills pulses true. It is here, in a small court overshadowed by the Tower of Ecthelion, that the White Tree of Minas Tirith once grew. Said to be of the lineage of Nimloth the fair, the original White Tree was brought as a sapling from Núménor to Gondor by the High King Elendil. When this tree died, a sapling was planted anew in the earth before the white tower. So it continued for many years, a dead tree replaced by a healthy heir. Its line, like the line of kings, was thought eternal. As time passed, the line of kings all but died out, and so too did the line of the White Tree fail. Now all that stands in the fountain court is a withered husk, a symbol of the early glory of Gondor long since faded.

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