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 | | Eventually the horrors of Sauron forced Beren to leave Dorthonion, and crossing Ered Gorgoroth and Nan Dungortheb (the only Man or Elf to do so) he came to Doriath Passing the Girdle of Melian, he saw Luthien dancing in Nel- doreth in the summer of FA 465, and he fell in love with her. | | | She returned his love the following spring, but after a few months they were betrayed to Thingol, who demanded a Silmaril in return for his daughter's hand. | | | It was so named because of the fear and horror that she bred there. |
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http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mithrandircq/Sil_encyclopedia.htm
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| | Ered Gorgoroth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | They were named such by the Sindar of Doriath after the spider-creature Ungoliant made it her temporary home, and spawned many evil spiders there, which wove webs that took away all light, and all the springs were poisoned. | | | The Gorgoroth had no known passes, and even the Orcs of Morgoth passed it by. | | | In all of the First Age only Beren son of Barahir is said to have passed the mountain range, and he never spoke of this terrible journey. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ered_Gorgoroth
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| | TolkienWiki: EredGorgoroth |
| | Aredhel and her companions, leaving Gondolin, were lost here, and Aredhel escaped only to be caught in the mazes of Eöl. | | | Later, Beren passed through the Ered Gorgoroth to reach Doriath, becoming the only being to pass the Girdle of Melian without the leave of Thingol and Melian. | | | And they became knkown as Ered Gorgoroth, the Mountains of Terror, and none dared go thither, or pass nigh to them; there life and light were strangled, and there all waters were poisoned." -- The Silmarillion, Of the Sindar |
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http://thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=EredGorgoroth&...
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| | The evil creature of spider-form who was Melkor's accomplice in the Darkening of Valinor, and who fled with him to Middle-earth. | | | The creatures that infested the Ered Gorgoroth were her offspring and descendants, as was Shelob who dwelt on the borders of Mordor. | | | This quote comes from The Silmarillion: Of the Flight of the Noldor, which also tells us '...some have said that she ended long ago, when in her uttermost famine she devoured herself at last'. |
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http://myprecious.co.uk/archive/characters1/ungoliant.htm
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| | Ungoliant |
| | He refused to give them to the Great Spider to be devoured, for he desired them greatly, and Ungoliant would have slain Melkor in the ensuing battle had not the Balrogs come and saved their master, causing Ungoliant to flee to the Ered Gorgoroth in Beleriand. | | | Melkor had promised to reward her, "Yea, with both hands", and after their flight from Valinor, the Dark Lord indeed gave her many gems of the Ñoldor, but withheld the Silmarils in his right hand. | | | While there, she had many offspring, as well as various creatures infesting the Ered Gorgoroth, which came to be a place of horror. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/U/Ungoliant.htm
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| | Circlet of Melian Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library |
| | At the end of the second age of the captivity of Melkor in the Halls of Mandos, she perceived that the peace of the land would not last forever and therefore counseled Elu Thingol to build for himself a kingly stronghold that would resist any evil that may awaken in Middle-earth. | | | In the building of Menegroth, Thingol and his people were much aided by the Dwarves who had come over the Ered Luin into Beleriand. | | | The circlet of Melian also protected the woods of Nivrim, so that a small portion of the River Sirion, which Melian loved in reverence of Ulmo, would be under the control of Thingol. |
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http://www.lotrlibrary.com/agesofarda/circletofmelian.asp
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| | Tolkienion Lexicon Letter N |
| | Narn signifies a tale made in verse, but to be spoken and not sung. | | | A Vala, one of the Aratar; usually named Mandos, the place of his dwelling. | | | The region west of Dor-lómin, beyond Ered Lómin, where Turgon dwelt before his departure to Gondolin. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_n.html
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| | Shelob - Wikpedia |
| | Shelob's brood (upon whom she often fed) included the giant (but much smaller than Shelob) spiders who captured Bilbo Baggins' dwarf allies in Mirkwood Forest. | | | A hunting spider, as Shelob appears to be, would have two large eyes facing forward, and a few smaller ones on the top of the head (or more accurately, cephalothorax). | | | Shelob occupied Torech Ungol beneath Cirith Ungol, and may have occupied Beleriand, possibly in the Ered Gorgoroth. |
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http://www.bostoncoop.net/~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Shelob
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| | Marking the western boundary of Rohan, the river Isen started in Nan CurunÃr and flowed to the Sea through the Gap of Rohan. | | | The title for Minas Anor given after the fall of Minas Ithil in T.A. The chief city of Gondor. | | | The realm first settled by Sauron around S.A. 1000, always a stronghold of evil. |
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http://lotr.4mg.com/custom2.html
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| | TolkienWiki: Anach |
| | The Orcs who captured Túrin after his betrayal by Mîm were heading for this pass when Beleg, tracking them, found Túrin. | | | Between the time that Túrin left Doriath and the time that Beleg found him, the Orcs found a way through the Pass of Anach and made a road and raid Dimbar from Dorthonion. | | | You have seen the peaks of the Crissaegrim far off, and to the east the dark walls of the Gorgoroth. |
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http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?Anach
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| | The Spiders of Mirkwood |
| | When Ungoliant settled in Ered Gorgoroth she found a mate and created a brood of evil spiders. | | | Now Ungoliant ravaged Middle-Earth, consuming everything insight, until she eventually settled in the dark valley of Ered Gorgoroth where it is said that she remained until hunger overcame her and she consumed her own bulk, thus ending her days. | | | Seeing as how her mate was of a lesser size, her children were a smaller, yet just as evil, version of herself. |
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http://students.ou.edu/B/Johanna.K.Best-1/story2_spiders.html
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| | [ELFWOOD] SF&F Art / Peter Xavier Price / 'Beren passes Ered Gorgoroth' |
| | You've portrayed the evilness of Ered Gorgoroth quite well, here. | | | Sheer were the precipices of Ered Gorgoroth, and beneath their feet were shadows that were laid before the rising of the Moon. | | | Since this image depicts almost the peaks of Ered Gorgoroth, and not the foot of the mountain range, I imagine that there wouldn't be much webbing as of yet. |
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http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/p/x/pxp/leithian_beren_eg.jpg.html
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| | RingQuest - Beleriand |
| | Inhabited by a multitude of those bird that love ‘tall reeds and shallow pools’ | | | The mountain fortress of Fingolfin and his son Fingon, set in the eastern foothills of the Ered Wethrin, at the source of the River Sirion. | | | This is where Fëanor’s Noldor disembarked (Losgar) from the ships that they had stolen from the Teleri in Aqualondë. |
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http://www.ringquest.com/forums/printthread.php?t=9900
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| | Ungoliant |
| | In the fictional world of Middle-earth, Ungoliant (from Quenya ungwë liante: "gloomweaver"; Gwerlum, her name in Sindarin, has the same meaning) was an evil spirit in the form of a spider who helped Melkor during the Darkening of Valinor, and who fled with him to Middle-earth. | | | She had many offspring, including various creatures infesting the Ered Gorgoroth as well as Shelob. |
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http://www.teachersparadise.com/ency/en/wikipedia/u/un/ungoliant.html
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| | Dorthonion was originally ruled by Angrod and Aegnor, sons of Finarfin, but it was overrun by Morgoth in the Dagor Bragollach, after which it was known as Taur-nu-Fuin ("Forest under Night"). | | | Here Barahir and later his son Beren dwelt in the wilderness. | | | The upper reaches of the River Sirion passed between the western slopes of Dorthonion and the Ered Wethrin (Mountains of Shadow). |
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http://www.yourencyclopedia.net/dorthonion.html
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| | The Library of Imladris |
| | Beren was the son of Barahir and Emeldir, and a mortal man. After his father and all his men, except Beren, had been killed due to the betrayal of Gorlim, Beren wandered through Beleriand. | | | After he passed through the Girdle of Melian, which surrounded the Elven Realm of Doriath, he saw Lúthien dancing near the river Esgalduin, and fell in love with her. | | | After 4 years of solitude, he came down from the Ered Gorgoroth and through the wilderness of Dungortheb, where the power of Sauron and Melian met. |
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http://www.lotrplaza.com/elves/library/bookslore/beren-book.asp
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| | This he did by capturing Gorlim, one of Barahir's followers, and using his sorcery he discovered the outlaws' camp, and destroyed all of Barahir's band but his son Beren. | | | Fate drove Beren into Sauron's hands eventually, though: some years later as a he travelled through the with on the Quest of the Silmaril, Sauron captured him with Finrod and their companions and imprisoned them in Tol-in-Gaurhoth. | | | Beren himself fled southwards through the treacherous paths of the Ered Gorgoroth, and Sauron's army of |
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http://www.thelandofshadow.com/mordorgate/2darkservants/sauron/saurontext1.htm
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| | Men of Ered Nimrais who were cursed by Isildur for breaking their oath of allegiance to him. | | | The bed of the river that once flowed out from the Encircling Mountains to join Sirion; forming the entrance to Gondolin. | | | Fortified refuge in Ered Nimrais above Harrowdale, approached by a climbing road at each turn of which were set the statues called Pukel-men. |
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http://www.tolkienion.com/lexicon/comp_d.html
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| | THE TOLKIEN FORUM - Question on the Origins of Mirkwood |
| | This was where Beren son of Barahir grew up, where he lived as an outlaw, and from whence he escaped over the Ered Gorgoroth (“Mountains of Terror”) into Doriath where he met Lúthien. | | | This same mountain range appears on the western end of a standard third-age map of Middle-earth. | | | The Ered Luin (Lindon) or Blue Mountains are a mountain range appearing on the eastern end of your map of Beleriand. |
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http://www.thetolkienforum.com/printthread.php?t=16972
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| | Travellers in these land often died because Sauron and his creatures killed most of the people who entered the valley and because the water in that region was poisoned. | | | The river marked the border between the land of Círdan and Nargothrond (see above). | | | + Nan Dungortheb : A valley wich laid between the Ered Gorgoroth and Doriath. |
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http://www.warofthering.net/ahobbitstale/tolkien/tolkien_encyclopedia_n.htm
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Spiders |
| | This was Shelob, who haunted a network of tunnels watching the pass of Cirith Ungol, eking a living on the hapless Orcs of Sauron. | | | During the First Age, the mountains of the Ered Gorgoroth were infested with these monsters, and became a place of dread. | | | The most famous of Ungoliant's children, though, lived far to the south and east of the Ered Gorgoroth, on the borders of the land of Mordor. |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/spiders.html
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| | Summoning lyrics - Dor Daedeloth |
| | My heart for your word, Dor Daedeloth, You have seen the journey of time, and let us, half mortal beings, take part of the truth and the solitude of mankind, forewer... | | | You won't fear us, for we won't bring you anything but a fading spirit, the essence of my frost cries... | | | Five shillvets are crossing the plains to the wide open forests of the west on and on they are travelling, in the direction of Hithlum called Nebelland, that made me asking for eternity... |
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http://www.lyricsbox.com/summoning-dor-daedeloth-q6qqmd9.html
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| | Encyclopedia of Arda: Ephel Dúath |
| | The name was also applied to the far northern range known in Elvish as the Ered Wethrin, though those northern mountains had been lost beneath the Sea at the end of the First Age. | | | The western mountain-fence of Mordor, lying between it and its ancient enemy Gondor, in which stood the tower of Minas Morgul. | | | The Elvish names of mountain ranges typically contain the word ered, the plural of orod, 'mountain' (as in Ered Gorgoroth, Ered Lithui, Ered Luin, and many other examples). |
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http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/e/ephelduath.html
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| | Shadow and Silver - Gloss |
| | These are the same Blue Mountains that in later Ages are located in the north-west of Middle-earth. | | | Ered Gorgoroth: the Mountains of Terror, range dividing the southern border of Dorthonion from Doriath. | | | Ered Luin: the Blue Mountains, the eastern borders of Beleriand. |
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http://oddlots.digitalspace.net/sunmoon/year/5_silver/silver_gloss.html
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| | Anach - Tolkien Gateway |
| | This page was last modified 21:56, 11 June 2005. | | | Towards its southern end, where it opened into the land of Dimbar, were the springs of the River Mindeb. | | | A long, narrow defile that ran down out of Dorthonion, cutting southwest between the impassable mountains of the Crissaegrim and Ered Gorgoroth. |
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http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Anach
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| | Ered Luin -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Seven rivers arose in it on the western side, and the land these rivers flowed through was known as (Click link for more info and facts about Ossiriand) Ossiriand, and later also as (Click link for more info and facts about Lindon) Lindon, therefore the mountains were sometimes referred to as the Ered Lindon. | | | The range of the Blue Mountains was originally connected with the Red Mountains by the (Click link for more info and facts about Ered Engrin) Ered Engrin or Iron Mountains. | | | The Ered Luin or Blue Mountains, also known as Ered Lindon, is the mountain range at the far west of (Click link for more info and facts about Eriador) Eriador, in (Click link for more info and facts about J. Tolkien) J. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/e/er/ered_luin.htm
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| | Mindeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Mindeb began in the Ered Gorgoroth near the Pass of Anarch, and was met by a tributary coming from the Crissaegrim. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindeb
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| | The City was situated north of Ered Gorgoroth, on the plain of Tumladen, which was encircled by Echoriath (The Encircling Mountains). | | | Thorondor, Lord of the Eagles, guarded the mountains encircling Gondolin, so that no enemies would find it. | | | To enter Gondolin you had to pass seven gates. |
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http://www.geocities.com/baja/canyon/9365/GONDO.html
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| | Silmarillion Dictionary C-E |
| | Ered Luin S; see ORO- high, ÓROT- mountain, Nol orod [Etym], S plur ered [appx]; see also LUG²- | | | play on words here with orod and Gorgoroth, something in which they delighted; 'The Mountains | | | Ered Engrin S; see ORO- high, ÓROT- mountain, Nol orod [Etym], plur ered [appx]; see also ANGA- |
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| | and so we pass the mountains of Ered Gorgoroth. | | | You have seen the journey of time,and let us, |
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| | The Shire Fellowship |
| | The lady strayed too far and became separated from her escort. | | | They are forced to pass between the northern boarder of Doriath and the haunted valleys of Ered Gorgoroth. | | | They depart, but Aredhel decides to head east instead to find Celegorm and Curufin. |
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http://10923.rapidforum.com/topic=103780609025&startid=1
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