J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in Letter 211, dated 14 October 1958, that the Argonath, the towering statues seen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, were inspired by ancient Egyptian monuments.
Tolkien wrote that the Númenóreans of Gondor resembled the Egyptians in many ways, including their love of constructing gigantic monuments and their fascination with ancestry and tombs.
In this letter, he explicitly stated: "The Númenóreans of Gondor were proud, peculiar, and archaic, and I think are best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms.
In many ways they resembled 'Egyptians': the love of, and the power to construct, the gigantic and massive. And in their great interest in ancestry and in tombs."
He even noted that the Crown of Gondor was very tall like that of the Egyptian Pharaohs, contrasting it with the simple diadem of the Northern Kingdom, much like the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Based on this, Tolkien scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, in their work The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pointed out that the Argonath recall ancient Egyptian statues, particularly the Colossi of Memnon at the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III.
They highlight how these twin monuments of Isildur and Anárion on the Anduin River mirror the massive twin stone guardians standing on the banks of the Nile.
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