I wonder if Sauron designed Barad-Dur. Maybe he was able to recruit John Howe using some magical method. I can imagine how some of their conversations went:
Sauron: Design me a tower, puny mortal.
John Howe: Sure, sure, no problem. How tall do you want it?
Sauron: Tall, tall, taller than any man could dare imagine.
John Howe: So, about 5000 feet?
Sauron: Yeah, that should do it.
Not much different from how skyscrapers are planned in the modern era. Sauron, of course, probably wasn't concerned about floor area ratios, glazing technologies, or elevator capacity. He almost certainly did not do a shadow study or hold any public hearings or file any plans with a building department.
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