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Dark Country

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Dark Country was a rare name for the Black Land of Mordor, a term used in fact only by Frodo Baggins (in the Book IV, Ch. 1 of the Lord of the Rings). It is effectively a loose translation of the name Mordor, in which the element mor means 'black' or 'dark', while dor relates to a land or country.