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It was called Lugbúrz in the Black Speech of Mordor, from lug "tower" and búrz "dark". [7] The Black Speech (created by Sauron) was one of the languages used in Barad-dûr. The soldiers there used a debased form of the tongue. [T 14] In The Lord of the Rings "Barad-dûr," "Lugbúrz," and "the Dark Tower" are occasionally used as metonyms for ...
Tolkien's evil realms of the Dark Lord Sauron and the fallen Wizard Saruman are damaged lands around tall dark towers. 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.
In The Lord of the Rings, the land of Morgoth's successor Sauron, the realm of Mordor with its volcano, Mount Doom, and Sauron's Dark Tower of Barad-Dûr, is another. The dark and dangerous tunnels of Moria form another, as does the enclosed circle of Isengard, centred on the tower of Orthanc, with its underground fires and furnaces, home to ...
Sauron fortified Mordor and completed the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr. He distributed the Seven and the Nine Rings to lords of Dwarves and Men. Dwarves would not submit, but he enslaved Men as the feared Nazgûl. Orcs, Trolls, Easterlings and men of Harad became his servants. [T 5]
Between those two ranges, at Mordor's northwest tip, are the Black Gates of the Morannon. In the angle between the two ranges is the volcanic Plateau of Gorgoroth, with the tall volcano of Orodruin or Mount Doom, where the Dark Lord Sauron forged the One Ring. To the mountain's east is Sauron's Dark Tower, Barad-dur. [9]
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an open-world adventure-RPG inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Exploring an original story of vengeance and redemption, the game ...
Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel, who was behind “The Dark Tower” with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey – is bringing back the historical epic with “The Promised Land,” which world ...
Creates the One Ring to dominate Middle-earth; uses it to build Mordor and the Dark Tower; becomes the "Necromancer", communing with the dead "Virtually indestructible": undone by fire, his shadow blown away Saruman: Wizard, a Maia: Imitator of Sauron; creates an army in Isengard, dwells in the tower of Orthanc; has sided with death