#morannon

Random #LOTR memes #The Hobbit Memes

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The Black Gate (Morannon) was the massive gateway and primary entrance to Mordor. Positioned in between the Mountains of Ash (Ered Lithui) and Mountains of Shadow (Ephel Dúath), it guarded the Pass of Cirith Gorgor, the only (known) way into Mordor from the West. The gate was flanked by the Towers of Teeth, Narchost and Carchost. Morannon was built in the Second Age around the same time as Barad-dûr, possibly with the same dark magic. During the War of the Last Alliance Mordor fell, and the Black Gate became a Gondorian garrison to prevent Mordor from rising again. The decline of Gondor due to the Kin-Strife and the Great Plague caused the garrisons to be weakened. Minas Ithil became Minas Morgul as Sauron infiltrated and retook Mordor. The Black Gate regained it’s menacing legacy and became the symbol of Mordor’s realm. Frodo, Sam, and Gollum saw the gate during the Quest of the Ring but could note get past it’s sharp walls and orc patrols, instead they opted to take the dangerous path of Cirith Ungol. The Black Gate would be the site of the penultimate battle of the War of the Ring. After the Siege of Minas Tirith, the armies of Gondor and Rohan (The West) under Aragorn Elessar marched here in a desperate bid to divert Sauron’s attention from Frodo and give the hobbit a chance to destroy the Ring. The Army of the West dispatched task forces to capture the occupied cities of Cair Andros and deal with Easterling ambushes, giving them a small number to assault Mordor with. When the army arrived the Mouth of Sauron came to them with his demands. This included subjugation of Rohan and Gondor. He showed them Frodo’s Mithril shirt and Samwise’s sword as incentives. The offer was refused and Mordor’s emissary retreated. The battle consisted of Orcs, Trolls, Haradrim, and Easterlings assaulting the well positioned Gondorian infantry squares. A Western counter attack drove much of the horde back through the gate, though at great cost. The Nazgûl attacked on their fell beasts only to be countered by Gwaihir and the Eagles. The armies of Mordor gained the upper hand, and when the situation was dire Frodo was detected shortly before destroying the ring. With the destruction of the Ring the Towers of Teeth and the Black Gate itself collapsed.

“The two vast iron doors of the Black Gate under its frowning arch were fast closed. Upon the battlement nothing could be seen. All was silent but watchful. They were come to the last end of their folly, and stood forlorn and chill in the grey light of early day before towers and walls which their army could not assault with hope, not even if it had brought thither engines of great power, and the Enemy had no more force than would suffice for the manning of the gate and wall alone. Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things. And as they stood they saw all the Nazgûl gathered together, hovering above the Towers of the Teeth like vultures; and they knew that they were watched.”

“@call-me-clever-girl mentioned you on a post “I need your expertise,...”

I'm not sure what the conversation was about but he's cradling a cat and I'm already in love lol

Trapp the werewolf in my Cambric Creek series:

is a dark-eyed cutie

is a fireman

is nice to cats

Brandon Routh in some Hallmark Christmas movie that was inexplicably on last night:

ditto

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