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The army of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men advanced on Mordor; in a great battle on the Dagorlad ("Battle Plain"), Sauron's forces were destroyed and the Black Gate was stormed. Barad-dûr was then besieged; after seven years, Sauron broke out and was defeated on the slopes of Orodruin. Sauron fled into Rhûn, and Barad-dûr was levelled.
Tolkien initially considered choosing a pair from four towers. Three such pairs (Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol, black lines) could have been the two of the title. [2] [3] But he settled on a different pair (red line), with Orthanc and a fifth tower, Minas Morgul. [4]
Sauron's tower is Barad-dûr, in the volcanic land of Mordor; [T 9] Saruman's is Orthanc, in the polluted industrial enclosure of Isengard. [T 10] [T 11] David Oberhelman, in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, writes that Tolkien's towers can signify creativity and the desire for transcendence and immortality: or hubris, overreach, and antagonism.
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Dol Guldur (Sindarin: "Hill of Sorcery") [T 17] was Sauron's stronghold in Mirkwood, before he returned to Barad-dûr in Mordor. It is first mentioned (as "the dungeons of the Necromancer") in The Hobbit. [T 18] [13] The hill itself, rocky and barren, was the highest point in the southwestern part of the forest.
He returned to Mordor, openly declared himself, rebuilt Barad-dûr, and bred armies of large orcs, Uruks. [T 27] The One Ring, lost in the Anduin, was found by the hobbit Sméagol. The Ring corrupted him. He shunned sunlight and took on the personality of Gollum. He retreated into caves, obsessed with the Ring, his "Precious".
The Downfall of Númenor and the Changing of the World. In the First Age, the Elves lived in Beleriand.In the First and Second Ages, Valinor was across the sea, Belegaer, from Middle-earth, with Númenor in between for most of the Second Age.
Shelob is a fictional monster in the form of a giant spider from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.Her lair lies in Cirith Ungol ("the pass of the spider") leading into Mordor.