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- Construction started on Barad-dûr, Sauron’s fortress, in Mordor around S.A. 1000. The process spanned 600 years, utilizing the power of the One Ring forged in Mount Doom around S.A. 1600. Its completion marked the most significant fortress since Angband’s fall in the War of Wrath. It established Mordor as a strategic stronghold.
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Leaving aside Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul which have towers as part of their overall structure, there are two very important towers, sometimes called the titular towers of the second book of the trilogy, which are clearly symbolically very important, namely Orthanc and Barad-dûr (Saruman's and Sauron's places, respectively).
- I would only add some additional remarks to the existing excellent answers. Regarding Orthranc: It is not isolated: it is inside the Circle of Isen...
- We ought to look carefully at how Tolkien used the word tower in The Lord of the Rings . The oldest and primary sense of the word is (per the Oxfor...
- As you say, towers are designed to guard and to spy. That doesn't mean that they are only useful as part of a fortified wall (like the Towers of th...
- I believe that it likely has something to do with the use of the palantirs - most of these towers had a palantir inside them at one point.
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Barad-dûr was built upon the end of a long southern spur of the Ered Lithui in the northern part of the Plateau of Gorgoroth. It stood about 30 miles east of Mount Doom and about 100 miles southeast of the Black Gate. There was both a road leading north to the Black Gate and Sauron's road to the Sammath Naur leading west to Mount Doom.The latter ra...
First Building
Sauron began to build Barad-dûr in around S.A. 1000, choosing Mordor as a land to make into a stronghold. Around S.A. 1600 he secretly forged the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doomand completed his fortress after 600 years of the construction with the power of the Ring. During the following years Sauron was able to consolidate his power and extend it into the east. However, in S.A. 3262, Ar-Pharazôn, king of Númenor, landed at the Haven of Umbarwith a great host and marched north to Mordor....
Reconstruction
Around T.A. 1050 Sauron returned and secretly made a stronghold at Dol Guldur. Gandalf did not discover that Sauron was the master of Dol Guldur until T.A. 2850, and in T.A. 2941 the White Council attacked the fortress, forcing Sauron to retreat to Barad-dûr, which the Nazgûl had prepared for him, and began to rebuild it in T.A. 2951. It was completed in T.A. 2953,and from then on Sauron stayed in Barad-dûr and conducted his war on the free people of Middle-Earth from there. On March 25, T.A....
Barad-dûr is a Sindarin name. It means "Dark Tower". It is a compound of Barad (a great towering buidling, (fort, city, castle) tower) and dûr ("dark" (with evil implications")). Lugbúrz was the name of Barad-dûr in the Black Speech, composed of the Black Speech words lûg ("fortress, lock-up, prison") and búrz("dark"). The Quenya versions of Barad-...
1980: The Return of the King (1980 film): 1. Barad-dûr is portrayed as a simple fortress. During a ring-induced dream, Samdreams of taking the Ring and storming the Tower, but his common sense gains the upper hand in time. 1981: The Lord of the Rings (1981 radio series): 1. Barad-dûr is one of the first sites visited. After the Witch-king captures ...
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It was the greatest fortress built since the fall of Angband during the War of Wrath. [4] Barad-dûr was besieged for seven years by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men during the Second Age, and was leveled after Sauron's defeat at the hands of Isildur.
Mar 23, 2024 · Barad-dur itself had an additional layer of natural defense, as vast chasms surrounded the Plateau of Gorgoroth. Dol Guldur kept Sauron safe as he regained his strength before the War of the Ring, but Barad-dûr was the beating heart of his evil empire.
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The title The Two Towers refers to Barad-dûr and Orthanc, Sauron’s stronghold in Mordor and Saruman’s citadel in Isengard, respectively. These two towers can be seen as a physical embodiment of the two visions of evil that Tolkien explores throughout The Lord of the Rings.
Barad-dûr, upheld by dark magic, stood as the preeminent fortress in Middle-earth during its time. Originally constructed in the Second Age, it was dismantled following Sauron’s defeat in the War of the Last Alliance.
The Stronghold of Sauron in Mordor. Barad-dûr was built by Sauron in the land of Mordor, not far from the volcano known as Mount Doom. The construction of the tower began around the year SA 1000, and took six hundred years to complete. It was the greatest fortress ever built since the fall...
