>>212890417
Middle Earth is supposed to be enormous. Like they're traveling for many months. At some point it's silly to not think some day along the way they'd have said "oh, we're going to Minas Tirith, capital of Gondor. It's this big white city with a pointed rock sticking out the front." It instead makes the whole area seem tiny like it just takes a few hours to get there and they never got around to discussing it since there wasn't much time and they were in a rush.