Mordor

Location from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sauron's fortress-realm — a black volcanic wasteland ringed by mountains, where darkness is manufactured and armies are bred for the final war against the free peoples.

Also known as: Mordor, the Black Land, the Land of Shadow, the Dark Country, Sauron's realm

What They Know

• Mordor is nearly impenetrable — the Black Gate in the north and Minas Morgul in the west are the only known entrances, both heavily guarded
• The Nazgûl patrol the skies above Mordor on fell beasts — anything moving in the open will be spotted
• Mount Doom is the only place the One Ring can be destroyed — its fires are where the Ring was forged
• Sauron's Eye searches ceaselessly from the pinnacle of Barad-dûr but cannot see everything simultaneously
• There is a secret path: Cirith Ungol, guarded by Shelob rather than orcs, which Gollum knows
• The armies of Mordor number in the tens of thousands — orcs, Easterlings, Haradrim, trolls
• The land was not always dead — Sauron corrupted it over millennia of occupation

Connections

• contains — barad_dur
• contains — mount_doom
• contains — minas_morgul
• contains — cirith_ungol
• contains — black_gate
• ruled_by — sauron
• borders — gondor

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