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Barad-dûr

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[[Image:Felix Sotomayor - Barad-Dur.jpg|thumb|200px|Image of ''Barad-dûr'' by [[Felix Sotomayor]].]]
'''Barad-dûr''' ([[Sindarin]] "Dark Tower", sometimes given as '''The Barad-dûr''') ('''Lugburz''' in [[Black Speech]]) is the fortress of [[Sauron]]. The [[Eye of Sauron]] kept watch over [[Middle-earth]] from its highest tower.

Barad-dûr was built by Sauron, the Dark Lord of [[Mordor]], with the power of the [[One Ring]], during the [[Second Age]]. The building took six hundred years to complete; it was the greatest fortress ever built since the Fall of [[Angband]], and much of Sauron's personal power went into it.

Barad-dûr was besieged for seven years by the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]], and was leveled after Sauron's defeat at the end of the [[Second Age]], but because it was created using the power of the One Ring its foundations could not be destroyed completely unless the Ring itself should be destroyed. [[Isildur]] failed to destroy the Ring, and so the tower was re-built when Sauron returned to Mordor thousands of years later.

Only when the One Ring was destroyed did the Tower finally fall; without Sauron's power to sustain it, it could not stand. Barad-dûr collapsed to ruin and Sauron was finally defeated.

The Dark Tower was described as existing on a massive scale so large it was almost surreal, although Tolkien does not provide much detail beyond its size and immense strength. Since it had a "topmost tower" (the location of the Window of the Eye, from which the Eye of Sauron gazed out over Middle-earth), it presumably had multiple towers. It is otherwise described as dark and surrounded in shadow, so that it could not be clearly seen.

==Barad-dûr in the movies==
[[Image:Barad-dur collapsing.jpg|thumb|left|Barad-dûr collapsing from [[Peter Jackson's The Return of the King]].]]
In the [[Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings|''Lord of the Rings'' movies]] by [[Peter Jackson]], [[Richard Taylor]] and his design team built a 9 foot high miniature ("[[Bigatures|big-ature]]") of Barad-dûr for use in the film. Using the size scale for the model implemented for the films, the Dark Tower is depicted as being over 1,500 meters (5,000 feet) tall, three times as tall as the Sears Tower in Chicago.

''[[Peter Jackson's The Return of the King|The Return of the King]]'' film also shows Barad-dûr as clearly visible from the [[Black Gate]] of Mordor. Even granting its enormous size, it was located one hundred miles away and to the east of the Gate

Tolkien Estate

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The '''Tolkien Estate''' is the legal body which manages the copyrights of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s works. It mainly holds the copyright over the literary texts. Executors of the estate include [[Christopher Tolkien]], his wife [[Baillie Tolkien]], and Christopher's nephew [[Michael Tolkien]]. Cathleen Blackburn of Manches

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Humphrey Carpenter

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'''Humphrey Carpenter''' (1946 - 2005) wrote the Authorised Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien published by [[Allen

Valarin

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'''Valarin''' is the tongue of the [[Ainur]]. As angelic beings with the ability to communicate through thought, strictly speaking the Valar had no need for a spoken language, but it appears that it was adopted as part of their assumption of physical, humanlike forms.

Valarin was extremely alien to the ears of the [[Elves]], sometimes to the point of genuine displeasure, and very few of them ever learned the language, only adopting some of the Valarin words into their own [[Quenya]]. The Valar learnt [[Quenya]] instead, and used that to converse with the Elves, or with each other if Elves were present. Valarin seemed to use long words, for example the Valarin word for [[Telperion]], Ibrîniðilpathânezel is eight syllables long. The [[Vanyar]] adopted more words from Valarin into their dialect ''Quendya'' than the [[Noldor]], as they lived closer to the Valar.

At least one word in the [[Black Speech]], '''nazg''' "ring", seems to be borrowed from Valarin '''na

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Roverandom

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