Gates of Angband
From Tolkien Gateway
The Gates of Angband were the entrance to a labyrinthine tunnel system under Thangorodrim called Angband. Carcharoth was its guard, and it was before these gates that Fingolfin and Morgoth fought.
- Ever the sheer cliffs rose beside,
- where birds of carrion sat and cried;
- and chasms black and smoking yawned,
- whence writhing serpent-shapes were spawned;
- until at last in that huge gloom.
- heavy as overhanging doom,
- that weighs on Thangorodrim’s foot
- like thunder at the mountain’s root,
- they came, as to a sombre court
- walled with great towers, fort on fort
- of cliffs embattled. to that last plain
- that opens, abysmal and inane,
- before the final topless wall
- of Bauglir’s immeasurable hall,
- whereunder looming awful waits
- the gigantic shadow of his gates.
- Lay of Leithian, Canto XI, Lines 3522-3537