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'''Carchost''' and its counterpart [[Narchost]] are the two towers situated on either side of the [[Black Gate]] of [[Mordor]] (otherwise know as the [[Morannon]]) as part of the [[The Lord of the Rings]] fictional trilogy. Together, '''Carchost''' and Narchost were known as the [[Towers of the Teeth]] or even the [[Teeth of Mordor]]. They were originally made by the men of [[Gondor]] but in the later Third Age they had been long abandoned by the Gondorians and were overrun with evil. [[Sauron]] used them as watch towers to guard the dark and evil land of [[Mordor]], protecting it from the very nation which had orginally built them.


Carchost appears to have stood to the eastern side of the Morannon, though specific details of the arrangement of the Towers are hard to come by. The name Carchost contains two Sindarin elements: carch, meaning 'tooth, fang', and ost meaning 'fortress'.
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