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A flag displaying the Red Eye of Sauron, based on a design by Tolkien that was used on the cover of the first edition of The Fellowship of the Ring in 1954. Throughout The Lord of the Rings, "the Eye" (known by other names, including the Red Eye, the Evil Eye, the Lidless Eye, the Great Eye) is the image most often associated with Sauron ...
Capital. Barad-dûr. In J. R. R. Tolkien 's fictional world of Middle-earth, Mordor ( pronounced [ˈmɔrdɔr]; from Sindarin Black Land and Quenya Land of Shadow) is the realm and base of the evil Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood.
Battle of the Morannon. In J. R. R. Tolkien 's epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, the Battle of the Morannon or the Battle of the Black Gate, is the final confrontation in the War of the Ring. Gondor and its allies send a small army ostensibly to challenge Sauron at the entrance to his land of Mordor; he supposes that they have with them ...
The scholar of English Jamie McGregor writes that the heraldic emblems described by J. R. R. Tolkien are associated with symbols used in The Lord of the Rings; some are readily apparent to the reader, such as the "Evil Eye" used by the Dark Lord Sauron, while others need closer analysis to reveal their significance.
Sauron is the architect of chaos in a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2, premiering Thursday, Aug. 29 on Prime Video. As we see in the above sneak peek, the Dark ...
Celebrimbor ( IPA: [ˌkɛlɛˈbrimbɔr]) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien 's legendarium. His name means "silver fist" or "hand of silver" in Tolkien's invented language of Sindarin. In Tolkien's stories, Celebrimbor was an elven -smith who was manipulated into forging the Rings of Power by the Dark Lord Sauron, in fair disguise and ...
Superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, reflexes, durability and intellect. Wields Dark Faerie magic. Ability to summon the Wild Hunt. Malekith the Accursed ( / ˈmæləkɪθ /) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the ruler of the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim, and has come into ...
The Lord of the Rings, book 2, ch. 10 "The Breaking of the Fellowship" [T 4] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey discusses the connection between the Valar and "luck" on Middle-earth, writing that as in real life, "People... do in sober reality recognise a strongly patterning force in the world around them" but that while this may be due to " Providence or the Valar", the force "does not affect ...