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The Nazgûl besiege Minas Ithil, a Gondorian fortress in the Ephel Duath, capture it, and acquire its palantír for Sauron. The city becomes Minas Morgul, the Nazgûl's stronghold, [T 13] and the valley is known as Morgul Vale (Imlad Morgul). Sauron returns from Dol Guldur to Mordor and declares himself openly.
Minas Morgul: Chosen: The nine Nazgûl: The tower, as Minas Ithil, Tower of the Rising Moon, was once part of Gondor; it guarded Gondor from the threat of Mordor, but has now been occupied by the nine Ringwraiths, powerful servants of the Dark Lord, and renamed to Minas Morgul, the Tower of Sorcery. [7]
The Ephel Dúath ("Fence of Shadow") defended Mordor on the west and south. The main pass was guarded by Minas Morgul, a city built by Gondor as Minas Ithil. [T 5] The fortress Durthang lay in the northern Ephel Dúath above Udûn. [T 6] A higher, more difficult pass, Cirith Ungol, lay just to the north of the Morgul pass. Its top was guarded ...
In the first film of Jackson's 2012–2014 The Hobbit film trilogy, the Wizard Radagast briefly encounters the Witch-king while investigating the forest fortress of Dol Guldur. [ 14 ] Péter Kristóf Makai, in A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien , writes that the 1976 board game Middle Earth provided the Witch-king with a choice of nine spells ...
[T 13] The Nazgûl captured Minas Ithil, renamed Minas Morgul, and seized its palantír, a seeing stone from Númenor. [T 25] The White Council of Wizards discovered Sauron, [T 26] and drove him from Mirkwood. He returned to Mordor, openly declared himself, rebuilt Barad-dûr, and bred armies of large orcs, Uruks. [T 27]
These include the industrial hells of Saruman's Isengard with its underground furnaces and labouring Orcs; the dark tunnels of Moria; Sauron's evil land of Mordor; and Morgoth's subterranean fortress of Angband. The gates to some of these realms, like the guarded West Door of Moria, and the Black Gate to Mordor, too, carry echoes of the gates ...
The Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor is the sixth expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG, released on July 31, 2017.It raised the game's level cap from 105 to 115 and added a new Plateau of Gorgoroth region in Mordor, which the Free Peoples of Middle-Earth begin to explore following the downfall of Sauron, as well as a new cluster of end-game Instances and a Raid.
After the completion of The Black Book of Mordor in the Minas Morgul expansion, two new major storylines began running concurrently for the first time in the game. Volume V: The Peace of Middle-earth continues following the Fellowship, beginning with the wedding of Aragorn and Arwen in Minas Tirith.