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Needs improvement
Hmm, this really needs improvement (by someone with way more knowledge of the subject than I). It would be nice if someone could add:
- whether Sauron built the tower himself (or was it one of those Numenorian ones that I read about somewhere)
- what the name means in english
- a rather better description of where it actually was
- (stretching it a bit) what was it for (i.e. why didn't Sauron live in a normal house, like everyone else)?
1-I don't think the Númenóreans built anything in Mordor proper, just at the border, but I'll look it up.
2-"dark tower", as indicated
3- Very good question. The film has it much closer to the Black Gate than Tolkien's maps would indicate. I'll update with information from The Encyclopedia of Arda (http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/).
- Barad-dûr was located on the western end of the southern (incomplete) mountain wall that fences of Gorgoroth from Núrnen. Thus not exactly close to the Morannon.
4-It was Sauron's favorite fortress, apparently. He seems to have liked towers. See Dol Guldur. More seriously, it was really enormously high and therefore a good place to keep his ceaseless watch on Middle-earth. --[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 00:20, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Also, Barad-dûr was built using the power of the Ring, and therefore it was a part of Sauron's being as much as the Ring. Only in Barad-dûr and with the Ring was Sauron his complete self again (he had diluted himself). [[User:Anárion|Missing image
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