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Acks comments that no natural process creates right-angle junctions in mountain ranges, such as are seen around Mordor and at both ends of the Misty Mountains on Tolkien's maps. [39] In addition, Tolkien's rivers fail to behave like natural rivers, forming regularly-branched streams in drainage basins demarcated by high ground.
J. R. R. Tolkien's design for his son Christopher's contour map on graph paper with handwritten annotations, of parts of Gondor and Mordor and the route taken by the Hobbits with the One Ring, and dates along that route, for an enlarged map in The Return of the King [5] Detail of finished contour map by Christopher Tolkien, drawn from his father's graph paper design.
Sketch map of part of Middle-earth in the Third Age, with Mordor on the right, bordered by Rohan and Gondor. Mordor was roughly rectangular in shape, with the longer sides on the north and south. Three sides were defended by mountain ranges: the Ered Lithui ("Ash Mountains") on the north, and the Ephel Dúath on the west and south.
How are Mount Doom and Mordor created on The Rings of Power? Lord of the Rings lore helps us to understand the origins of these evil places.
The Southlands, Númenor, and Mordor. Amazon Prime. Númenor, the kingdom of men gifted by the Valar as a thank-you to humans for aiding the Elves against Morgoth, is a sprawling metropolis ...
Adar turned the Southlands into Mordor. Sam Hazeldine as Adar in The Rings of Power Ross Ferguson—Prime Video. Much of Season 1 takes place in the Southlands, where men who once aligned with the ...
Arda began as a symmetrical flat disc, and was repeatedly transformed through cataclysmic interventions by the Valar and by the creator, Eru Ilúvatar.. Tolkien's stories chronicle the struggle to control the world (called Arda) and the continent of Middle-earth between, on one side, the angelic Valar, the Elves and their allies among Men; and, on the other, the demonic Melkor or Morgoth (a ...
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. Historically the border with Gondor was to be the river Harnen, but by the time of the War of the Ring all the land further north to the river Poros is under the ...