In real scenarios keeps, castles and strongholds are built to take advantage of natural defendable locations that provide for those seeking to defend themselves with some necessary commodities and advantages in a battle... Storage locations for food, fresh water, fodder for horses and other livestock, difficult to scale mountains limited attack from most sides... A promontory provides difficulty for attackers and vantage point to observe attacking forces as well as a projectile platform... To allow transport of food, water and other resources into the fortress side entrances behind the Deeping Wall would have been necessary... Once breached the main fortress would be limited for food and water as well as attackers finding it more easily accessed than through the main gate.

In real scenarios keeps, castles and strongholds are built to take advantage of natural defend-able locations that provide for those seeking to defend themselves with some necessary commodities and advantages in a battle, such as, storage locations for food, fresh water, fodder for horses and other livestock, difficult to scale mountains limited attack from most sides. A promontory provides difficulty for attackers and vantage point to observe attacking forces as well as a projectile platform, to allow transport of food, water and other resources into the fortress side entrances behind the Deeping Wall would have been necessary. Once breached the main fortress would be limited for food and water as well as attackers finding it more easily accessed than through the main gate.