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| The Morannon... the Black Gate. The Teeth of Mordor guarded Cirith Gorgor, the haunted pass. The entrance to the land of the Enemy. |
| Upon the west of Mordor marched the gloomy range of Ephel Dúath, the Mountains of Shadow, and upon the north the broken peaks and barren ridges of Ered Lithui, gray as ash.
But as these
ranges approached one another, being indeed parts of one great wall about the
mournful plains of Lithlad and Gorgoroth, and the bitter inland sea of Núrnen
amidmost, they swung out long arms northward; and between these arms was a deep
defile.
This was Cirith Gorgor,
the Haunted Pass. The entrance to the land of the Enemy. None
could pass the Teeth of Mordor without feeling their bite, unless they were summoned
by Sauron, or knew the secret passwords that would open the Morannon, the Black
Gate of his land. The two
hobbits gazed at the towers and the wall in despair.
From The Two Towers - The Black Gate is Closed. |
The Artist is Alan Lee
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High cliffs lowered upon either side, and thrust forward from its mouth were two sheer hills, black-boned and bare. Upon them stood the Teeth of Mordor, two towers strong and tall.
The watch-towers, which had fallen into decay, were repaired, and filled with arms, and garrisoned with ceaseless vigilance. Stony-faced they were, with dark window-holes staring north and east and west, and each window was full of sleepless eyes.
Across the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord had built a rampart of stone. In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly. Beneath the hills on either side the rock was bored into a hundred caves and maggot holes; there a host of orcs lurked, ready at a signal to issue forth like black ants going to war.
From The Two Towers - The Black Gate is Closed |
The Artist is John Howe
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Day came and the fallow sun blinked over the lifeless ridges of the Ered Lithui. Then suddenly the cry of brazen-throated trumpets was heard; from the watchtowers they blared, and far away from hidden holds and outposts in the hills came answering calls; and further still, remote but deep and ominous, there echoed in the hollow land beyond, the mighty horns and drums of Barad-dûr. Another dreadful day of fear and toil had come to Mordor; and the night-guards were summoned to their dungeons and deep halls, and the day-guards, evil-eyed and fell, were marching to their posts. Steel gleamed dimly on the battlement.
From The Two Towers -
The Black Gate is Closed |
The Artist is Weta Digital & Weta Workshop
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Gollum rose slowly and crawled insect-like to the lip of the hollow. Very cautiously he raised himself inch by inch, until he could peer over it between, to broken points of stone.
"More Men going to Mordor, we have not seen Men like this before, no Smeagol has not. They are fierce. They have black eyes, and long black hair, and gold rings in their ears; yes lots of beautiful gold."
"Very cruel wicked men they look"
"Always more people coming to Mordor. One day all the peoples will be inside"
From The Two Towers - The Black Gate is Closed |
The Artist is Weta Digital & Weta Workshop
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Sauon sprang his trap. Drums rolled and fires leaped up. The great doors of the Black Gate swung back wide. Out of it streamed a great host as swiftly as swirling waters when a sluice is lifted.
Dust rose smothering the air, as from nearby there marched up an army of Easterlings that had waited for the signal in the shadows of the Ered Lithui beyond the further Tower. Down from the hills on either side of the Morannon poured Orcs innumerable. Sauron had taken the proffered bait in jaws of steel.
And out of the gathering mirk the Nazgûl came with their cold voices crying words of death; and then all hope was quenched.
From The Return of the King -
The Black Gate Opens |
The Artist is Michael Kaluta
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