The tower of Orthanc is said to have been impenetrable:
By the next day, only the tower of Orthanc remained, as it was hewn of one piece of impenetrable rock...
-http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Orthanc.
It survives an attack on it by the Ents and has seemingly lasted many thousands of years - it was built in the Second Age.
It is also said that even though it was the Numenorean men who built the tower, it was as though something else was involved:
it was fashioned by the builders of old who smoothed the Ring of Isengard, and yet it seemed a thing not of the craft of Men, but riven from the bones of the earth in the ancient torment of the hills.
-http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Orthanc.
What makes the tower so impenetrable?
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