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Within Barad-dûr and among the captains of Mordor (the Ringwraiths and other high-ranking servants such as the Mouth of Sauron), the Black Speech was still used, the language devised by Sauron during the Dark Years of the Second Age. In addition to ordinary Orcs and Trolls, Sauron had bred a more powerful strain of Orcs, the Uruk-hai, and a ...
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]
Barad-Dur and Mount Doom can be seen through the open gate between the Towers of the Teeth. In 1957, Morton Grady Zimmerman and colleagues proposed to Tolkien with a screenplay that they make a film of Lord of the Rings combining animation, miniatures and live action. The final drama of the Battle of the Black Gate was to feature Gandalf's ...
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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".
Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. [T 1] There was a look-out post, the "Window of the Eye", at the top of Barad-dûr. This window was visible from Mount Doom where Frodo and Sam had a terrible glimpse of the Eye of Sauron. Barad-dûr's west gate is described as "huge" and the west bridge as "a vast bridge of iron." [T 9]
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.
To the mountain's east is Sauron's Dark Tower, Barad-dur. [9] To the south of Gondor and Mordor lie Harad and Khand. [7] Lands to the East.