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'''1982-97: ''[[Middle-earth Role Playing]]'':''' | |||
: The campaign module [[Gorgoroth (book)|Gorgoroth]] contains two maps of northwestern Mordor that include the northwestern part of Nurn with the names of two rivers and the names of three settlements and animals that occur in Nurn. It also contains descriptions of the fortresses of Barad-wath and Ostigurth that guard the gap of Nurn between Gorgoroth and Nurn. | |||
'''2014: ''[[Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor]]'':''' | '''2014: ''[[Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor]]'':''' | ||
:Nurn is a location in the game that the player can visit. Nurn was originally the domain of the Tribesmen of Nurn whom were descended from Corsairs who have settled around the Sea of Nurn following Gondor’s retreat hundreds of years before the events of the story. | :Nurn is a location in the game that the player can visit. Nurn was originally the domain of the Tribesmen of Nurn whom were descended from Corsairs who have settled around the Sea of Nurn following Gondor’s retreat hundreds of years before the events of the story. | ||
Revision as of 14:59, 28 October 2020
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| "Nurn" by Mark Fisher | |
| General Information | |
| Location | Southern Mordor |
| Type | Region |
| Description | Quite fertile, with the sea of Nurnen in the middle of it |
| Inhabitants | Orcs, Men |
| Gallery | Images of Nurn |
Nurn was the name given to the southern regions of Mordor, more fertile than Gorgoroth in the north, in which the great inland Sea of Núrnen lay.[1] The people who inhabited Nurn were Men and there may have been prisoners of war there as well. These people were enslaved by Sauron, working the soil around the sea of Nurn to feed Sauron's armies.
After the War of the Ring, King Elessar liberated the peoples of Nurn and gave them the land as their own. The southern region of Nurn probably escaped the destruction caused in northern Mordor by the eruption of Mount Doom.[2]
Etymology
Nurn, appearing in the compound Núrnen ("sad-water"), apparently means "sad" in Sindarin.[3][4]
Portrayal in adaptations
1982-97: Middle-earth Role Playing:
- The campaign module Gorgoroth contains two maps of northwestern Mordor that include the northwestern part of Nurn with the names of two rivers and the names of three settlements and animals that occur in Nurn. It also contains descriptions of the fortresses of Barad-wath and Ostigurth that guard the gap of Nurn between Gorgoroth and Nurn.
2014: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor:
- Nurn is a location in the game that the player can visit. Nurn was originally the domain of the Tribesmen of Nurn whom were descended from Corsairs who have settled around the Sea of Nurn following Gondor’s retreat hundreds of years before the events of the story.
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" [map]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Steward and the King"
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, p. 457
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, Index, Núrnen
