https://tolkiengateway.net/w/api.php?hidebots=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&target=Tarondor_%28King_of_Gondor%29&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atomTolkien Gateway - Changes related to "Tarondor (King of Gondor)" [en]2024-03-29T13:15:26ZRelated changesMediaWiki 1.39.3https://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Narmacil_II&diff=388481&oldid=388471Narmacil II2024-03-29T11:54:15Z<p>Made corrections and added references</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Narmacil II''' ({{TA|1684}}<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}</ref> - {{TA|1856|n}},<ref <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="south"</del>>{{App|South}}</ref> aged 172 years)was the twenty-ninth [[Kings of Gondor|King of Gondor]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Narmacil was the son <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and successor to </del>[[Telumehtar Umbardacil]] and brother of [[Arciryas]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del><ref <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="Gondor"</del>>{{App|Gondor}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Narmacil II''' ({{TA|1684}}<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name=PM</ins>>{{PM|Elendil}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, manuscript C, The Southern Line of Gondor: the Anarioni, 29. Narmakil II, p. 200</ins></ref> - {{TA|1856|n}},<ref>{{App|South}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, entry for Narmacil II, p. 1038</ins></ref> aged 172 years) was the twenty-ninth [[Kings of Gondor|King of Gondor]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>{{App|South}}, ''Kings of Gondor'', p. 1038</ref></ins>. Narmacil was the son <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of King </ins>[[Telumehtar Umbardacil]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=Telumehtar>{{App|South}}, entry for Telumehtar Umbardacil, p. 1038</ref> </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>brother of [[Arciryas]]<ref>{{App|Gondor}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, entry for King Eärnil II, p. 1050</ins></ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During </del>Narmacil<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s reign a new confederacy </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many peoples called </del>the [[Wainriders]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appeared </del>from the East<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Encouraged </del>by emissaries from [[Sauron]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they suddenly assaulted </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gondor</del>]]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del><ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Gondor"</del>/> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Narmacil <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">brought </del>a great army <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">into </del>the plains south of [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mirkwood</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and gathered what remnants </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Northmen</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he could to meet the threat.</del><ref>{{UT|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Northmen</del>}}</ref> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, these new enemies were stronger and better armed than before, traveling </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great wains with warriors mounted in chariots. In </del>the [[Battle of the Plains]] Narmacil was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">slain north-east </del>of the [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Morannon</del>]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thereafter </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">southern </del>and eastern [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rhovanion</del>]] were <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enslaved while </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">border </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gondor was withdrawn to </del>the [[Anduin]].<ref name=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>Gondor<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</del>/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Narmacil <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">II became King </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gondor when his father Telumehtar died in {{TA|1850}}<ref name=Telumehtar/>. A year later in {{TA|1851}}, incited by emissaries from [[Sauron]] </ins>the [[Wainriders]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, a people or a confederacy of many peoples that came </ins>from the East<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, had been stirred up </ins>by emissaries from [[Sauron]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and began to attack Gondor.<ref>{{App|TA}}, entry for the year 1851, p. 1086</ref> The [[Northmen]], a confederation of peoples that lived in the wide plains between [[Mirkwood]] and the </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">River Running</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">,<ref>{{UT|Northmen}}, second paragraph</ref> bore the main impact of the first attack of the Wainriders</ins><ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Northmen>{{UT|Northmen}}, fourth pagraph</ref>.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In {{TA|1856}}<ref>{{App|TA}}, entry for the year 1856, p. 1086<</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</ins>> Narmacil <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">II came with </ins>a great army <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </ins>the plains south of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mirkwood and assembled as many of the dispersed remnants of the Northmen as was possible<ref name=Northmen/> and fought with the aid of horsemen of the Northmen under </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marhari</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, a descendant </ins>of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Vidugavia</ins>]]<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name=Note5</ins>>{{UT|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">8e</ins>}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, note 5</ins></ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">against the Wainriders </ins>in the [[Battle of the Plains]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=Northmen/>. In that battle the army of Gondor and the Northmen were defeated and </ins>Narmacil <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">II </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">killed.<ref name=Northmen/> The remnant of the army of Gondor<ref name=Northmen/> with a reardguard of the horsemen </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Northmen<ref name=Note5/> retreated over the [[Dagorlad]] to </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ithilien</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but Marhari was killed during the retreat<ref name=Northmen/></ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">army of Gondor had inflicted such losses on the Wainriders that they did not enough forces left to continue with their invasion of Gondor without further reinforcements from the East and instead completed their conquest </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Rhovanion]].<ref name=Note5/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gondor withdrew its borders for that time to the Anduin and the [[Emyn Muil]]<ref name=NarmacilII>{{App|Gondor}}, entry for King Narmacil II, pp. 1048-49</ref> </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">abandoned all its </ins>eastern <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lands except Ithilien<ref name=Northmen/>. A few of the Northmen fled over the River Running and joined the folk of </ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dale</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with whom they </ins>were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">related, some Northmen searched refuge in Gondor and other Northmen were assembled by [[Marhwini]], </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">son </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marhari and migrated north between the Anduin and Mirkwood and settled in </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Vales of </ins>Anduin]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Many Northmen fled through Mirkwood and joined Marhari's group. The rest of the Northmen were enslaved by the Wainriders who had occupied all their former lands.<ref>{{UT|Northmen}}, fifth paragraph</ref>. It is believed that the [[Ringwraiths]] reentered [[Mordor]] at this time</ins>.<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NarmacilII/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The earliest version of what would later become Appendix A mentioned that there was a battle with the Ringwraiths in his time, that the Ringwraiths seized Mordor and that Osgiliath ended to be the seat of the Kings of Gondor.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript A</ref> In the next version the Ringwraiths had seized Mordor long ago, attacked Ithilien and the Witch-king killed Narmakil. This was changed to that the Ringwraiths reentered Mordor, that Men out of the East riding in great wains attacked Gondor and that Narmakil was killed in battle.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A</del></ref> In the latest version the ceasing of the vigilance is added as the reason for the Ringwraiths reentering Mordor. It is added that Narmakil II died in a battle <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with them </del>northeast of the Morannon<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but the </del>Men out of the East still remain unnamed.<ref<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">>{{</del>PM<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|Elendil}}, manuscript C, The Southern Line of Gondor: the Anarioni, entry 29. Narmakil II, p. 200<</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref</del>></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The earliest version of what would later become Appendix A mentioned that there was a battle with the Ringwraiths in his time, that the Ringwraiths seized Mordor and that Osgiliath ended to be the seat of the Kings of Gondor.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript A</ref> In the next version the Ringwraiths had seized Mordor long ago, attacked Ithilien and the Witch-king killed Narmakil. This was changed to that the Ringwraiths reentered Mordor, that Men out of the East riding in great wains attacked Gondor and that Narmakil was killed in battle.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B</ins></ref> In the latest version the ceasing of the vigilance is added as the reason for the Ringwraiths reentering Mordor. It is added that Narmakil II died in a battle northeast of the Morannon <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </ins>Men out of the East<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, but those men </ins>still remain unnamed.<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name=</ins>PM/></div></td></tr>
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</table>Akhorahilhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Boromir_(Steward_of_Gondor)&diff=388475&oldid=374843Boromir (Steward of Gondor)2024-03-28T21:42:42Z<p>changed "2 older sisters" to "2 older siblings" because the texts do not specify the sex of Boromir's siblings. The page for their dad, Denethor I, was already correct.</p>
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</table>Chad in Texashttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Narmacil_II&diff=388471&oldid=373882Narmacil II2024-03-28T18:02:14Z<p>Added an OVOTL section</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During Narmacil's reign a new confederacy of many peoples called the [[Wainriders]] appeared from the East. Encouraged by emissaries from [[Sauron]] they suddenly assaulted [[Gondor]].<ref name="Gondor"/> Narmacil brought a great army into the plains south of [[Mirkwood]] and gathered what remnants of the [[Northmen]] he could to meet the threat.<ref>{{UT|Northmen}}</ref> <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>However, these new enemies were stronger and better armed than before, traveling in great wains with warriors mounted in chariots. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>In the [[Battle of the Plains]] Narmacil was slain north-east of the [[Morannon]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Thereafter the people of southern and eastern [[Rhovanion]] were enslaved while the border of Gondor was withdrawn to the [[Anduin]].<ref name="Gondor"/></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>During Narmacil's reign a new confederacy of many peoples called the [[Wainriders]] appeared from the East. Encouraged by emissaries from [[Sauron]] they suddenly assaulted [[Gondor]].<ref name="Gondor"/> Narmacil brought a great army into the plains south of [[Mirkwood]] and gathered what remnants of the [[Northmen]] he could to meet the threat.<ref>{{UT|Northmen}}</ref> However, these new enemies were stronger and better armed than before, traveling in great wains with warriors mounted in chariots. In the [[Battle of the Plains]] Narmacil was slain north-east of the [[Morannon]]. Thereafter the people of southern and eastern [[Rhovanion]] were enslaved while the border of Gondor was withdrawn to the [[Anduin]].<ref name="Gondor"/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The earliest version of what would later become Appendix A mentioned that there was a battle with the Ringwraiths in his time, that the Ringwraiths seized Mordor and that Osgiliath ended to be the seat of the Kings of Gondor.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript A</ref> In the next version the Ringwraiths had seized Mordor long ago, attacked Ithilien and the Witch-king killed Narmakil. This was changed to that the Ringwraiths reentered Mordor, that Men out of the East riding in great wains attacked Gondor and that Narmakil was killed in battle.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, Commentary, Narmakil II, manuscript A</ref> In the latest version the ceasing of the vigilance is added as the reason for the Ringwraiths reentering Mordor. It is added that Narmakil II died in a battle with them northeast of the Morannon, but the Men out of the East still remain unnamed.<ref>{{PM|Elendil}}, manuscript C, The Southern Line of Gondor: the Anarioni, entry 29. Narmakil II, p. 200</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Akhorahilhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Mordor&diff=388391&oldid=382062Mordor2024-03-26T11:03:18Z<p>Added some references; I have already edited a lot of other pages about locations in Mordor, such as the Morgul Pass, Cirith Ungol, Durthang, the Black Gate, the Towers of the Teeth, Carach Angren, Lithlad, Nurn, Nurnen and the Nargil Pass, so I could make more corrections and add more references</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Geography ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Geography ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mordor was protected from three sides by mountain ranges, arranged roughly rectangularly: [[Ered Lithui]] in the north, and [[Ephel Dúath]] in the west until turned to the east, forming a southern range. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A narrow pass </del>led <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through Ephel Dúath and </del>the city of [[Minas Morgul]] (earlier [[Minas Ithil]]) <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was guarding that</del>; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an even </del>more difficult pass was guarded by the giant spider [[Shelob]] and the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fortress of </del>[[Cirith Ungol]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Another known fortress was [[Durthang]] in northern Ephel Dúath.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mordor was protected from three sides by mountain ranges, arranged roughly rectangularly: <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>[[Ered Lithui]] in the north, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>[[Ephel Dúath]] in the west until <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they </ins>turned to the east, forming a southern range.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=FRMap>{{FR|Map}}</ref> The [[Morgul Pass]] </ins>led <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from the [[Morgul Vale]] in [[Ithlien]], wich was guarded by </ins>the city of [[Minas Morgul]] (earlier [[Minas Ithil]]) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through the Ephel Dúath into Mordor</ins>; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Cirith Ungol]], a higher </ins>more difficult pass was guarded by the giant spider [[Shelob]] and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by </ins>the [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tower of </ins>Cirith Ungol]]. Another known fortress was [[Durthang]] in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </ins>northern Ephel Dúath.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=RKMap>{{RK|Map}}</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the north-west corner of Mordor the deep valley of [[Udûn (valley)|Udûn]] was the only entrance for large armies, and that is where Sauron built the Black Gate of Mordor. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>In front of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Morannon]] </del>lay the [[Dagorlad]]. Sauron's main fortress [[Barad-dûr]] was at the foothills of [[Ered Lithui]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>To south-west of Barad-dûr lay the arid [[Plateau of Gorgoroth]] and the volcanic [[Mount Doom]] (also called [[Orodruin]]); to the east lay the plain of [[Lithlad]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>The land in the western parts of Mordor were largely infertile, producing only sparse [[Brambles of Mordor|brambles]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the north-west corner of Mordor the deep valley of [[Udûn (valley)|Udûn]] was the only entrance for large armies, and that is where Sauron built the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Black Gate<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>of Mordor. In front of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Black Gate </ins>lay the [[Dagorlad]]. Sauron's main fortress [[Barad-dûr]] was at the foothills of [[Ered Lithui]]. To south-west of Barad-dûr lay the arid [[Plateau of Gorgoroth]] and the volcanic [[Mount Doom]] (also called [[Orodruin]]);<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=RKMap/> </ins>to the east lay the plain of [[Lithlad]]. The land in the western parts of Mordor were largely infertile, producing only sparse [[Brambles of Mordor|brambles]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The southern part of Mordor, [[Nurn]], was slighly more fertile, and moist enough to carry the inland [[sea of Núrnen]]. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Nurn was made somewhat fertile because the ash blown from Mount Doom left its soil nutrient rich, thus allowing dry-land farming. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>Unfortunately, the inland sea of Núrn was salty, not freshwater. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The southern part of Mordor, [[Nurn]],<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=FRMap/> </ins>was slighly more fertile, and moist enough to carry the inland [[sea of Núrnen]]. Nurn was made somewhat fertile because the ash blown from Mount Doom left its soil nutrient rich, thus allowing dry-land farming. Unfortunately, the inland sea of Núrn was salty, not freshwater. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To the west of Mordor was the narrow land of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Ithilien<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>with the great river [[Anduin]], to the east [[Rhûn]], and to the south-east, [[Khand]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To the west of Mordor was the narrow land of Ithilien with the great river [[Anduin]], to the east [[Rhûn]], and to the south-east, [[Khand]].<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=FRMap/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== History ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== History ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Early history ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Early history ===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Melkor]] created Mount Doom in the long [[First Age]], and the name "Mordor" may have been given to the land before Sauron settled there because of its eruptions.<ref>{{PM|Last}}, p. 390 (note 14).</ref> Also in the First Age, the [[Drúedain]] migrated westward, and historians in Gondor believed that they came through lands south of Mordor and, after turning northward into <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Ithilien<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>, became the first Men to cross the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Anduin<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>.<ref>{{UT|12b}}, pp. 339-340.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Melkor]] created Mount Doom in the long [[First Age]], and the name "Mordor" may have been given to the land before Sauron settled there because of its eruptions.<ref>{{PM|Last}}, p. 390 (note 14).</ref> Also in the First Age, the [[Drúedain]] migrated westward, and historians in Gondor believed that they came through lands south of Mordor and, after turning northward into Ithilien, became the first Men to cross the Anduin.<ref>{{UT|12b}}, pp. 339-340.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first being known to occupy the mountains of Mordor was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</del>Shelob<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</del>, fleeing from the [[War of Wrath]] in [[Beleriand]] at the end of the First Age. She fed herself on [[Elves]] and [[Men]] living or passing nearby until these became scarce.<ref>{{TT|Lair}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The first being known to occupy the mountains of Mordor was Shelob, fleeing from the [[War of Wrath]] in [[Beleriand]] at the end of the First Age. She fed herself on [[Elves]] and [[Men]] living or passing nearby until these became scarce.<ref>{{TT|Lair}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron settled in Mordor around {{SA|1000}}. In the north-western corner of this land stood Mount Doom, where he had forged [[the One Ring]]. Near Orodruin he built his stronghold [[Barad-dûr]]. After this time, Sauron was known as the [[Dark Lord|Dark Lord of Mordor]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron settled in Mordor around {{SA|1000}}. In the north-western corner of this land stood Mount Doom, where he had forged [[the One Ring]]. Near Orodruin he built his stronghold [[Barad-dûr]]. After this time, Sauron was known as the [[Dark Lord|Dark Lord of Mordor]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron's rule was interrupted yet again when his efforts to overthrow the surviving Men and Elves failed, and they fought their way back to their foe's domain. After several months of siege in the [[Battle of Dagorlad]], forces of the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]] came into Mordor. Sauron was defeated in a final battle and the Dark Tower was leveled to the ground, but Mordor was not settled by Men because of the dreadful memory of Sauron, and Orodruin.<ref <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del>name=rings>{{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">V</del>}}</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sauron's rule was interrupted yet again when his efforts to overthrow the surviving Men and Elves failed, and they fought their way back to their foe's domain. After several months of siege in the [[Battle of Dagorlad]], forces of the [[Last Alliance of Elves and Men]] came into Mordor. Sauron was defeated in a final battle and the Dark Tower was leveled to the ground, but Mordor was not settled by Men because of the dreadful memory of Sauron, and Orodruin.<ref name=rings>{{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">S</ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rings</ins>}}</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Kings of Gondor]] built watchtowers and fortresses around Mordor, such as the mountain fortress of [[Durthang]], the [[Towers of the Teeth]] at the [[Morannon]], and the [[Tower of Cirith Ungol]], in order to prevent Sauron's servants from returning to Mordor.<ref name=Tower>{{RK|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VI1</del>}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [[Kings of Gondor]] built watchtowers and fortresses around Mordor, such as the mountain fortress of [[Durthang]], the [[Towers of the Teeth]] at the [[Morannon]], and the [[Tower of Cirith Ungol]], in order to prevent Sauron's servants from returning to Mordor.<ref name=Tower>{{RK|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tower</ins>}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, Gondor had failed in the long run; during the [[Great Plague]], the population was so diminished that troops were recalled and the fortresses abandoned.<ref>{{App|South}}</ref><ref>{{App|TA}}, {{TA|1640}}</ref> Deprived of guard, Mordor began to fill with evil things again, and it is said the first shadow was the [[Lord of the Nazgûl]] ({{TA|1980}}) who summoned the other [[Nazgûl|Ringwraiths]], first appearing since the [[War of the Last Alliance]], to prepare the return of Sauron.<ref name=rings/><ref name=ta/> [[Minas Ithil]] was conquered by the Ringwraiths in {{TA|2002}}; other fortifications that were supposed to defend Gondor from the menace inside Mordor were captured and turned into a means of shielding Mordor. Sauron resided in [[Dol Guldur]], until the [[White Council]] [[Attack on Dol Guldur|attacked]] it in {{TA|2941}}, forcing Sauron to flee.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>However, Gondor had failed in the long run; during the [[Great Plague]], the population was so diminished that troops were recalled and the fortresses abandoned.<ref>{{App|South}}</ref><ref>{{App|TA}}, {{TA|1640}}</ref> Deprived of guard, Mordor began to fill with evil things again, and it is said the first shadow was the [[Lord of the Nazgûl]] ({{TA|1980}}) who summoned the other [[Nazgûl|Ringwraiths]], first appearing since the [[War of the Last Alliance]], to prepare the return of Sauron.<ref name=rings/><ref name=ta/> [[Minas Ithil]] was conquered by the Ringwraiths in {{TA|2002}}; other fortifications that were supposed to defend Gondor from the menace inside Mordor were captured and turned into a means of shielding Mordor. Sauron resided in [[Dol Guldur]], until the [[White Council]] [[Attack on Dol Guldur|attacked]] it in {{TA|2941}}, forcing Sauron to flee.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Akhorahilhttps://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=Elendil&diff=388296&oldid=385205Elendil2024-03-23T19:20:12Z<p>the note on which the '7 feet' figure is based on doesn't say that Elendil was 7 feet tall - it says that he was at least 7 feet tall</p>
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