Edoras

I took a long, long, long side trip deep into the middle of the South Island to Mt. Sunday, a rocky outcropping on which they built the set for Edoras, the capital of Rohan, for The Lord of the Rings.
I remember in one of the DVD commentaries for The Two Towers someone said that if this geological feature had been found in Europe, it would have already had a castle built on it for a thousand years.
The whole time I was out there, I kept thinking to myself “Look for your friends, but do not trust to hope. It has forsaken these lands.”