Mordor
Sign in to saveIn J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent of Middle-earth, Mordor (; , ) is the realm of the Dark Lord Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping.
Key facts
- Fictional location.name
- Mordor
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- Middle-earth
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- the Land of Shadow, the Black Land, the Dark Land
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- Geography
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- East of Gondor
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- Lifespan
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- First Age – Third Age
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- The Lord of the Rings
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- Capital
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- Barad-dûr
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30 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Overview
- The Black Gate
- The Mountains of Shadow
- Interior
- Mount Doom
- Barad-dûr
- First Age
- History
- Early history
- The Last Alliance and Third Age
- War of the Ring
- Languages and peoples
- Naming
- Origins
- Grendel's wilderness in ''Beowulf''
- 'Black Country' of the West Midlands
- First World War's Western Front
- Evil
- Turkey
- Legacy
- In film
- In other media
- Places
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Primary
- Secondary
- Sources
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent of Middle-earth, Mordor (; , ) is the realm of the Dark Lord Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Mount Doom, a volcano in Mordor, was the goal of the Fellowship of the Ring in the quest to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was surrounded by three mountain ranges, to the north, the west, and the south. These both protected the land from invasion and kept those living in Mordor from escaping.
Commentators have noted that Mordor was influenced by Tolkien's own experiences in the industrial Black Country of the English Midlands, and by his time fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in the First World War. Tolkien was also familiar with the account of the monster Grendel's unearthly landscapes in the Old English poem Beowulf. Others have observed that Tolkien depicts Mordor as specifically evil, and as a vision of industrial environmental degradation, contrasted with either the homey Shire or the beautiful elvish forest of Lothlórien.