In the far northwest of Mordor, where the mountains of Ered Lithui and Ephel Dúath came together, lay a valley named Udûn (after the ancient fortress of Melkor in the north of the world). Offshoots of its mountain fences divided the land into two distinct regions, the barren uplands of Gorgoroth in the northwest, and the more fertile southern plain of Nurn, where the inland sea of Núrnen lay. On all but its eastern borders, where it marched with Rhûn and Khand, it was surrounded by the mountains of Ered Lithui and Ephel Dúath. Mordor was a land of approximately rectangular shape, measuring some 600 miles east to west and 400 north to south. 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. Sauron himself, however, dwelt at Dol Guldur in Mirkwood, and did not return openly to Barad-dûr until some seventy years before the War of the Ring. 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. After Sauron settled there, the land became known as Mordor (the Black Land) - no record of an earlier name for this region exists.Īfter 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. 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 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.
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