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The Dark Lord Sauron gave nine Rings of Power to powerful mortal men, including three lords of the once-powerful island realm of Númenor, along with kings of countries in Middle-earth. [ T 2 ] [ T 3 ] The rings enslaved their bearers to the power of Sauron's One Ring , into which he had put much of his own power.
In the Years of the Trees, Arda was lit by the Two Trees of Valinor. Melkor damaged the trees, and Ungoliant drained them of their sap [T 1]. Tolkien's original writings say that Ungoliant was a primeval spirit of night, named Móru, [T 2] who aided Melkor in his attack upon the Two Trees of Valinor, draining them of their sap after Melkor had injured them.
The name "Moria" means "the Black Chasm" or "the Black Pit", from Sindarin mor, "dark, black" and iâ, "void, abyss". [T 1] The element mor had the sense "sinister, evil", especially by association with infamous names such as Morgoth and Mordor; indeed Moria itself had an evil reputation by the times in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set.
The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria is the first expansion pack for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Lord of the Rings Online released on November 18, 2008. [2] It added the new game regions of Moria and Lothlórien, two new character classes and a new Legendary Items system. Level cap was raised to 60 and the ...
The Watcher in the Water is a fictional creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth; it appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of The Lord of the Rings. [T 1] Lurking in a lake beneath the western walls of the dwarf-realm Moria, it is said to have appeared after the damming of the river Sirannon, [T 1] and its presence was first recorded by Balin's dwarf company 30 or so years ...
Tolkien's Corsairs were inspired by the Barbary Pirates or Corsairs of the North African coast. [1] Map by Jan Janssonius, c. 1650. Harad is a large land in the south of Middle-earth, bordered to the north by (from west to east) the lands of Gondor, Mordor, Khand and Rhûn.
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Balrogs (/ ˈ b æ l r ɒ ɡ /) are a species of powerful demonic monsters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.One first appeared in print in his high-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, where the Company of the Ring encounter a Balrog known as Durin's Bane in the Mines of Moria.