The meticulously crafted city of Edoras, a place of dazzling scope and natural beauty, makes a deep impression on all who see it—and it leaves an even deeper mark on those who experienced it firsthand. Members of The Two Towers cast were wowed by Edoras’ remote setting, the sheer logistics of its construction and the production team’s attention to detail. Here are reflections on the place from some of the actors who were fortunate enough to call Edoras their home. Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) "The location for Edoras was, to me, one of the most beautiful, the most impressive. Everything was constructed on this knoll, and reading the book, it's exactly what you would dream and hope Edoras would look like, and feel like." Ian McKellen (Gandalf) "Everyday we went there, spirits rose, whether it had snowed overnight, or the sun was out or it was pelting rain. There was majesty to that location. A secret valley, it seemed. A place where, if it had not been for the film, one would never have visited. That was a really magical time." Miranda Otto (Eowyn) "The first day we arrived at Edoras was really memorable. To be picked up at three o'clock in the morning and have an hour-and-a-half drive to a set I hadn't seen before, then come over the hill and see the Golden Hall actually built in the middle of nowhere surrounded by these white covered mountains--exactly as it’s described in the book—well, it was amazing.so exactly right and to feel as an actor you had so much to work with, that was really exciting." "It’s like when you were a child and you think about being a princess and having a palace and you wake up one morning and there it is. And they dress you up in all these fabulous costumes. It really is part of the fantasy you have as a child, I think." Karl Urban (Eomer) "Edoras was breathtaking. Not only because it's this extraordinarily detailed Middle-earth city built on top of this mini-mountain, but it was situated in this glacial valley with mountains on parallel sides and beautiful plains beneath." "It was just such a privilege to be there, to actually be at Edoras. It actually existed. It took months to build, we worked in it for two weeks, and then they dismantled it so if you go back you wouldn't even know it's there." Brad Dourif (Grima Wormtongue) "Edoras was beautiful, and it's a situation where the actors get something which the audience never gets." "I mean, I got woken up at 3:30 in the morning, horrible bumpy roads, I come over this hill and there's this valley surrounded by snow-peaked mountains. In the middle of the valley, marshes on one side, flat grassland on the other, there's a gnarly hill that looks like God made it from Middle-earth. It was like a piece of Middle Earth time-warped here or something." "And on top of it is the great hall of Edoras with all these buildings on it. You go up there and everybody's in robes. You're looking out on this high hill, this pure medieval world. Medieval costumes, swords and everything and you are sitting in a time, in an environment that is going to be torn down in weeks."