then flash to steam, causing an explosion. The name Barad-dûr is Sindarin, from barad "tower" and dûr "dark". It was called Lugbúrz in the Black Speech...

back to Mordor. Sauron fortified Mordor and completed the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr. He distributed the Seven and the Nine Rings to lords of Dwarves and Men...

at the Battle of Dagorlad, they advanced into Mordor and laid siege to Barad-dûr. When Minas Ithil was recaptured, Isildur sent his younger sons Aratan...

Elendil and Gil-galad laid siege to the Dark Lord Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr, and fought him hand-to-hand for the One Ring. Both Elendil and Gil-galad...

controls Gollum through a series of locations, such as Cirith Ungol, Barad-dûr, and Mirkwood, as he attempts to find Bilbo Baggins and retake the One...

leaving the title ambiguous or naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. However, a month...

Gil-galad and Elendil laid siege to the Dark Lord Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr, and fought him hand-to-hand for the One Ring. Both Gil-galad and Elendil...

the forces of Sauron lose heart. Mount Doom erupts, and Sauron's tower, Barad-dûr, collapses, along with the Black Gate. The army of Gondor returns home...

and Gil-galad. Sauron killed both of them at the end of the siege of Barad-dûr. Elrond saw Elendil's son Isildur destroy Sauron's physical body and take...

Sauron trapping both of them in the form of a large flaming eye on top of Barad-dûr. Celebrimbor remains trapped as part of the Dark Lord until the One Ring...

who later became known as the Ringwraiths. He built a stronghold called Barad-dûr and secretly forged the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom to control...

arch-villain of The Lord of the Rings, remains within his fortress of Barad-Dûr and does not speak or make any physical appearance during the trilogy...

The Return of the King. These include Lugbúrz, meaning "Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), snaga, "slave", and ghâsh, "fire". The name Nazgûl is a combination...

Fields and at the Black Gate, and watched as Sauron was defeated and Barad-dûr collapsed. After the destruction of the One Ring, Legolas remained in...

tower that guards the pass of Shelob Minas Morgul – Sauron's 'Dead City' Barad-dûr – Sauron's massive tower The Black Gate – the gate guarding the gap between...

ambiguous", but considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. However, a month...

survived from this period is his "The Lieutenant of the Black Tower of Barad-dûr", a piece inspired by Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He says if this...

the Battle of the Morannon to imply falsely that he was imprisoned in Barad-dûr. Gandalf took the shirt and other tokens, but refused any offer of parley...

Gandalf learns that Sauron had imprisoned Gollum in his fortress of Barad-dûr, and tortured him to reveal what he knew of the Ring. Returning to the...

the Three Rings of Power, is set with a gem of adamant; the fortress of Barad-dûr is also partly built from "adamant". The crown of Gondor is described...

Morgul and Orthanc. Jackson's film names them instead as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, symbolic of an evil alliance out to destroy Men that forms the film's...

contributed to the design of Bag End, Minas Morgul, Cirith Ungol and Barad-dûr. Lee applied a personal touch by painted imagery in Rivendell, such as...

back to Middle-earth by the Valar during the Second Age c. 1600, when Barad-dûr was completed and Sauron forged the One Ring, and while Númenor was still...

was there, who was there before Sauron, and before the first stone of Barad-dûr; and she served none but herself, drinking the blood of Elves and Men...

(Darker Than Black, 2014) Thuringian Pagan Madmen split with Dark Fury, Barad Dûr and Goatmoon (self-released, 2020) Pure Darkness EP (Weltenfeind, 2020)...

[of Sauron's] vast fortress, armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dûr." The Tolkien scholar Brian Rosebury writes that Tolkien was making the...

adolescent technology against ancient magic. The shining tower of the Barad-dûr citadel rose over the plains of Mordor almost as high as Orodruin like...

The Dark Tower (comics), a comic book series based on the novel series Barad-dûr, or the Dark Tower, the fortress of Sauron in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord...

the barrow with the wight's banishment, and the final destruction of Barad-Dûr accompanied by the wind's blowing away of Sauron. Miller concludes that...

Elves and Men with Elendil's forces and defeats Sauron in the Siege of Barad-dûr, though Gil-galad himself perishes with no successors as High King of...