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  2. Mordor - Wikipedia

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    The New York Times related the grim land of Mordor to Tolkien's personal experience in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. [22] Jane Ciabattari, writing on the BBC culture website, calls the hobbits' struggle to take the ring to Mordor "a cracked mirror reflection of the young soldiers caught in the blasted landscape and ...

  3. Hell and Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Scholars have seen multiple resemblances between the medieval Christian conception of hell and evil places in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. 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 ...

  4. Tolkien's maps - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Lord of the Rings Online - Wikipedia

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    The world is divided into four larger sections of Eriador, Rhovanion, Gondor and Mordor. The game began to allow exploration and adventuring into the arid regions south of Gondor — Umbar and Harad — in order to ensure the prolonged safety of the newly-crowned King Elessar (Aragorn) and his wife Arwen, in November 2023.

  6. Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    How Wikipedia's coverage of Middle-earth differs from a fansite's Item Fan websites Wikipedia Approach: In-universe, mass of plot detail, unsourced or with Primary (Tolkien) sources only: External, for general readers, Reliably Sourced: Authority: J. R. R. Tolkien: Reliable Sources – literary critics, scholars, news, critics of games and films

  7. Environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    Mines, ironworks, smoke, and spoil heaps: the Black Country, near Tolkien's childhood home, has been suggested as an influence on his vision of Mordor. [1]J. R. R. Tolkien was brought up as a boy first in rural Warwickshire at Sarehole, at that time just outside Birmingham, and then inside that industrial city.

  8. The Great War and Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien took part in the First World War, known then as the Great War, and began his fantasy Middle-earth writings at that time. The Fall of Gondolin was the first prose work that he created after returning from the front, and it contains detailed descriptions of battle and streetfighting.

  9. Mordor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Mordor is a fictional location in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. Mordor may also refer to: Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol, a 1995 role-playing video game; Mordor, Warsaw, an informal name for the area, mostly composed of the office buildings, in the city of Warsaw, Poland