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| '''Carchost''' was the eastern<ref name=UI/> of the two towers that flanked the [[Black Gate]] of [[Mordor]] (otherwise know as the [[Morannon]]). Together, Carchost and its counterpart [[Narchost]] were known as the [[Towers of the Teeth]]<ref name="Towers">{{RK|VI1}}</ref> or even the [[Teeth of Mordor]].<ref>{{TT|IV3}}</ref> They were originally made by the men of [[Gondor]] but in the later Third Age they had been long abandoned by the Gondorians and were overrun with evil.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 [[Mordor]], protecting it from the very nation which had originally built them.<ref name="Towers"/>
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| ==Etymology==
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| The name ''Carchost'' is translated as "fang fort".<ref name=UI>{{HM|UI}}, p. 601</ref> It contains two [[Sindarin]] elements: ''carch'', meaning "tooth, fang", and ''[[ost]]'' meaning "fortress".<ref>{{S|Appendix}}, ''carak-''</ref>
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| [[Category:Fortresses]]
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| [[Category:Mordor]]
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| [[Category:Sindarin locations]] | | [[Category:Sindarin locations]] |
| [[Category:Towers]]
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| [[de:Carchost]] | | [[de:Carchost]] |
| [[fi:Carchost]] | | [[fi:Carchost]] |
| [[fr:encyclo:geographie:villes_tours_et_forteresses:mordor:carchost]] | | [[fr:encyclo:geographie:villes_tours_et_forteresses:mordor:carchost]] |