Naboo: Numenorean Architecture?

[Valandil]

Just re-watched episodes 4, 5, 6, 1 & 2 - to introduce my boys to the Star Wars movies (they'll have to be older to watch epi 3).

Anyway - I was really struck by the architecture of Naboo - both the capital city and the 'summer palace' (or whatever it was) in the 'lake district'.

I started thinking - this could be what Numenor would look like, and maybe Osgiliath and Annuminas also. Possibly Pelargir and Umbar. It just struck me as something very like how the Numenoreans would build.

(what better place for this than a thread in a Star Wars forum of a Tolkien board)

[Voronwen]

Hmm...

Maybe Umbar, which could be a little more exotic.

I imagine Numenorean architecture to differ by region, just as in real-life Western art history. Gondor would be more Romanesque, Arnor more High Gothic, and Numenor itself would have been a mix, but far surpassing anything those on Middle Earth in the early Third Age could have imagined (unless they were of the earliest generations who came straight from there, of course ). This would apply to their uses of materials and color, as well. I'd expect to find Corinthian columns in Osgiliath and arched stained-glass windows in Annuminas, for example. Armenelos, though, would have had it all.

Umbar could have been an exotic mix of Romanesque with Eastern influences - more like Naboo.


ETA, i have to say here though that you think like me in this regard. Often unrelated things just hit me out of the blue as "That could be Numenorean".