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in the book in says that Golum had said that the Morannon had once been in control of Mordor i was wondering if it is true

[ March 11, 2003: Message edited by: Gil-Galad ]

Suilad,

This quote is taken from "The Encyclopedia of Arda".

Quote:

After the destruction of the strongholds of evil in the north of Middle-earth at the end of the First Age, Sauron fled southwards seeking new lands. At the end of the first millennium of the Second Age, he chose a land walled by mountains, and there built his great fortress of Barad-dûr. After Sauron settled there, the land became known as Mordor (the Black Land) - no record of an earlier name for this region exists.

After the defeat of Sauron in the War of the Last Alliance, Mordor was taken under the control of Gondor, and the Gondorians built fortifications around it to prevent the return of evil things; the greatest of these was Minas Ithil (later Minas Morgul). As Gondor's power faded, however, Mordor once again fell into the hands of the Enemy, and after two thousand years of relative peace, the Nazgûl returned and claimed the land once again in the name of Sauron. Sauron himself, however, dwelt at Dol Guldur in Mirkwood, and did not himself return openly to Barad-dûr until some seventy years before the War of the Ring.

In that War, Sauron's power was finally defeated when the One Ring was cast into the Cracks of Doom, and the land of Mordor once again came under the control of the South-kingdom.

From The Encyclopedia Of Arda

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the Morannon had once been in control of Morannon

I think I speak for many when I say...

eh?

whoever just said eh? i agree. who were the morrannan or whateer? i dont remember ever reading about them, but the word sort of makes me think that ive forgotten its meaning. were they the dead people in the paths of the dead?

the Morannon was the black gate of north Mordor and teh Dead men of Dunharrow betrayed themselves to Sauron and thay are stuck in the whtie mountains

The Morannon (Black Gates) were built by the men of Gondor after the defeat of Sauron in the Last Alliance, along with Minas Ithil & the Tower of Cirith Ungol, as defenses against evil reinhabiting Mordor. It was abandoned, along with all other defenses, when Gondor's strength waned, and the servants of Sauron occupied all.