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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. [ T 14 ] He sent two or three of the Nazgûl, led by Khamul, to garrison Dol Guldur.
Minas Tirith is the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising some 700 feet to a high terrace, housing the Citadel, at the seventh level.
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 ...
Gondor's border with Rohan is the Ered Nimrais, the White Mountains, which run east–west from the sea to a point near the Anduin; at that point is Gondor's capital city, Minas Tirith. [8] Across the river to the East is the land of Mordor. It is bordered to the north by the Ered Lithui, the Ash Mountains; to the west by the Ephel Duath, the ...
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]
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The Battle of the Pelennor Fields ([pɛˈlɛnnɔr]), in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, was the defence of the city of Minas Tirith by the forces of Gondor and the cavalry of its ally Rohan, against the forces of the Dark Lord Sauron from Mordor and its allies the Haradrim and the Easterlings.
Minas Tirith, from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; Minas Morgul (formerly Minas Ithil), from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; Comics.