MORDOR: Middle-Earth's Black Land Explored | Lord of the Rings Lore

in the land of Mordor in the fires of Mount Doom the dark lord Sauron forged in secret a Master Ring Mordor stands as an emblem of dread power and darkness situated in the southeast of Middle Earth this place of evil is not just a backdrop to the climax of The Lord of the Rings but almost a character in its own right so today I will dive into the geography history and Architectural marvels of Mordor revealing the intricacies of this land and its significance in the histories of Middle Earth build me a worthy of more remember everyone if you find this video helpful informative or entertaining today please remember to hit that subscribe button below by subscribing you'll never miss out on any of our latest videos and you'll be supporting us to continue creating great content like this in the region of Mordor you have the gorgoth plateau where at its heart you will find Mount Doom or a rod ruin it would be here that Sauron would use his foul sorcery and will to construct a tower that made other Towers like that in Eisen guard look like toys in comparison it was made of black glass similar to the obsidian formed from the volcanic eruptions which is even now sharper than Diamond sharper than surgical steel every everything is sharp and dangerous here we get a brilliant Vivid description from the chapter of the breaking of the fellowship about this where it says but against minirth was set another Fortress greater and more strong thither Eastward un willing his eye was drawn it passed the ruined bridges of osth the grinning Gates of masas moral and the haunted mountains and it looked upon goroth the valley of Terror in the land of Mordor Darkness lay there under the sun fire glowed amid the smoke Mount Doom was burning and a great reek Rising then at last his gaze was held wall upon wall Battlement upon Battlement black immeasurably strong mountain of Iron Gate of Steel Tower of adamant he saw it arador Fortress of Sauron all hope left him mordor's vastness and true sphere of influence peaked in the second age by the time of sauron's attempted return to power in The Lord of the Rings he is gathering but former strength which had been an Empire defended on three sides by mountain ranges those of ared luthi or the ash mountains to the North and the Fel duath or mountains of Shadow to the west and south these are estimated to be around 500 350 and 500 M long or 800 560 and 800 km respectively this means that a rough estimate of the area of Mordor is around 175,000 square miles to put this into context the UK is about 94,000 s mil the state of California is about 156,000 Square mil and the country of Sweden would be the closest to its size at around 174,000 square miles so if you wanted to rebuild a life-size Mordor you pretty much have to take over Sweden but anyway mordor's geography is both imposing and diverse starting in the Northwest the deep valley of udun serves as the sole entry point for large armies this entrance is guarded by the imposing black gate of Mordor strategically situated at the intersection of the Ash and Shadow Mountain ranges on either side of the black gate stood two strong tall towers the tower on the western side of the pass was called narst and the tower on the Eastern side of the pass was called car cost together they were called The Towers of the teeth now although the black gate itself was built by Sauron when he first chose Mordor as his base in the second age contrary to popular belief these two towers were erected by Gondor in the third age very near to the beginning of it to contain The Evil Within moral making sure no outside evil ever returned there and no inside evil ever escaped and then outside of these you then get the expansive field of dagad the stretched out for many miles beyond the gates now back inside the gates sauron's primary stronghold barad door is nestled in the foothills of ared lithu south of this Fortress the Arid plateau of gorgoroth dominates while further south east near the brackish Waters of the neran sea one can find a vast Plateau known as lithlad or the ash Plains another critical strategic point is the narrow pass through the mountains of Shadow overseen by the Eerie Fortress of masas morol once known as Minas ether and if you would like to know why this changed we do have a video on this subject however this pass kungle is further fortified by an adjacent Fortress bearing the same name the treacherous sheilo the spawn of angolian the Ancient Spider resides here and her presence alone serves as a formidable deterrent to potential Intruders a fact that Sauron leveraged by allowing her to stay there contrastingly mordor's southern region are actually fairly fertile with lands moist enough to support Agriculture and it's here that the Seine Inland neran sea is found so from this you can see why Sauron wanted this to be his home mordor's geography played an instrumental role in its Allure for him offering both a symbol of his dark Ambitions and an impenetrable Bastion for his power naturally fortified by towering mountain ranges on three sides ensured that the heart of sauron's domain remained while guarded only the northwest region where the black gate stood served as a significant point of entry and this was heavily fortified emphasizing mordor's strategic defensive capabilities furthermore the heart of Mordor the plateau of gorgoth hosted Mount Doom also known as a Rodin the very furnace where the one ring was forged its volcanic activity not only embued Mordor with an aura of dread but also prevented a tangible source of power and a symbolic heart to sauron's Dominion its central location ensured the one Ring's point of creation was deep within sauron's territory making attempts to unmake it herous for adversaries the barren and desolate Landscapes of Mordor also made it inhospitable ensuring that no major civilizations could establish themselves within its confines and challenge Sauron Supremacy in contrast the southern region of ner with its fertile lands provided the necessary resources to sustain those vast armies that Mordor helped all of these geographical aspects combined to make Mordor the ideal seat of power for Sauron reinforcing his Reign and serving as a daunting symbol of his might and one of the greatest symbols of all of these was of course his great Fortress of bador Mordor particularly The Fortress of bador stands as a testament to the unyielding power and Malice of Sauron although the specifics about the interior of bador remain elusive being that no one that Sauron ever did and want to leave ever did we do know that from the Vantage of sauron's eye one could witness the entrance to sth Naro The Fortress itself was a colossal entity complete with an imposing gate beneath a magnificent mountainous Throne numerous lava pits and a veil of Shadows that cloaked its expanse this stronghold was fortified with walls Gates and Towers constructed of the and yielding adamant the southern region of Mordor known as ner provided the labor that sustained bador its inhabitants were enslaved for much of the third age their eventual Liberation by Aragon after the war of the Ring offers a glimmer of hope for modal's future as the fourth age Dawns but we will come back to this later externally bador was an architectural Marvel that mirrored the atrocities committed within its walls its soaring and sheia Towers which like I've said before dwarfed even Eisen guard concealed the Horrors of the black pits chambers of torture confirmed by toi The Fortress wasn't just its Towers though it contained an intricate network of underground Chambers armories and posts teaming with sauron's forces Orcs malevolent men and the elite Black burs connected to Mount Doom via the sauron's road arador was sauron's Dominion during the second and third ages while his exact height does remain a topic of debate in Robert Fosters the complete guide to Middle Earth it is said to stand roughly at 4,500 ft tall at its peak which again to put this kind of measurement into context the bur Khalifa in Dubai being the world's tallest building is 2,716 ft tall it would be a Monumental Fortress and we do actually get a rare insight into its Interiors which is provided by Frodo's Vision in the mirror of galadrial the eye was rimmed with fire but was itself glazed yellow as a cat's watchful and intent and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit a window into nothing and then later Frodo and Sam's approach to Mount Doom provides yet another glimpse of the eye a manifest station of sauron's Relentless watch one moment only it stared out but as from some great window immeasurably High there stabbed northward a flame of red the flicker of a piercing eye and then the Shadows were filled again and the terrible Vision was removed the eye was not turned to them it was gazing North to where the captains of the West stood at Bay and thither all its malice was now bent as the power moved to strike its deadly blow but Frodo at that Dreadful Glimpse fell as when stricken mortally in essence arodor was more than just a tower it was a sprawling complex rivaling modern cities in size its vast underground Chambers Dungeons and courts steeped in cruelty would indeed make even sauron's former Master morgoth [Music] proud mordor's Grim history is intricately tied to the dark Ambitions of morgoth and Sauron these two dark Powers wielded influence over Spirits even those of men it was within sauron's power to not just kill but also imprison or even torture a soul a torment far worse than death itself Orcs the Twisted slaves of Mordor were not oblivious to these dark practices no I don't know said gags voice the messages go through quicker than anything could fly as a rule but I do not inquire how it's done safe is not to those nasgul give me the creeps and they skin the body off you as soon as look at you and leave you all cold in the dark on the other side but he likes them they're his favorites nowadays so it's no use GR Ling I tell you it's no game serving down in the city mordor's very creation traces back to the cataclysmic upheavals caused by morgoth shaped by colossal volcanic outbursts the region was already known as Mordor during sauron's time named after its ominous volcano a rod ruin also known as we said earlier as Mount Doom saon established his reig in Mordor a millennium after the first age concluded from that point onward Mordor became a sanctuary for his malevolent will position in throughout Middle Earth second and third ages for 2 and a half Millennia sauron's dominion over Mordor remained unbroken he waged Wars against various races from the Alves of Aron to the men of numor however his capture by the numenorians led to the sinking of their Island Kingdom an act he inadvertently instigated upon num's fall Sauron Spirit returned to moror where he resumed his role with renewed malice bador The Dark Tower is where the allseeing eye of Sauron loomed and he watched over the significant fortification at the mananan the black gate being built in that second age it was critical to the defense it stood at the juncture of the mountains of the Ash and Shadow ridges but by the end of the third age as Sauron was finally brought down this fortification was demolished as sauron's dark rain finally met its demise when it comes to it and the one ring is finally destroyed froo and Sam have a terrible vision of what Mordor and bador were inside and there upon the dark threshold of the samthar high above the plains of Mordor such wonder and Terror came on him that he stood still forgetting all else and gazed as one turned to stone a brief Vision he had of swirling cloud and in the midst of its towers and battlements tall as Hills founded upon a mighty Mountain throne above immeasurable pits great courts and dungeons eyess prisons sheer as Cliffs and gaping Gates of Steel and adamant and then all passed Towers fell and mountains slid walls crumbled and melted crashing down vast spires of smoke and spouting steams went billowing up up until they toppled like an overwhelming wave and its Wild Crest curled and came foaming down upon the land and and then at last over the miles between there came a rumble rising to a deafening crash and Roar the Earth shook the plane heaved and cracked and a rod ruin reeled fire Bouch from its Riven Summit and so then in the wake of sauron's fall mordal once the land shrouded in darkness and Dread began its slow Journey towards Rejuvenation the very air that was once thick with malice seemed to lighten as if Middle Earth itself was taking a deep breath of relief the ashes from Mount Doom which had covered the region no longer fell with that same heavy consistency however the scars of sauron's dominion remained the vast stretches of barren Wasteland the desolate Plains devoid of vegetation and the lingering presence of Orcs and other malevolent creatures presented formidable challenges for any potential restoration yet even in such desolation hope managed to find its way with sa's oppressive rule gone the free peoples of middle Earth looked to Mordor With A New Perspective some saw it as a cautionary Testament to the corrupting power of evil While others saw an opportunity to reclaim and rehabilitate a lost land gradually with the leadership of King Aragon various kingdoms ventured into moror aiming to heal the land and integrate its remaining inhabitants into the larger fold of midair while the road to recovery was long and fought with challenges Mordor stood as a poignant reminder that even the darkest of Realms could find Redemption and hope in a post Sauron world it's done yes Mr fro it's over now so there we have it with its vast Landscapes Tower and fortresses and intricate history Mordor stands as a Monumental Testament to the complex interplay of power ambition and resilience in Middle Earth a symbol of dread and dominance under Sauron it also emerged as a land of potential and renewal in the aftermath of his downfall while it may forever be etched in the history as the domain of Darkness its eventual transformation serves as a poignant reminder that even the most desolate places can find Redemption through the lens of Mordor Jr talking Echoes the Timeless message that while evil may seem Invincible it is always the Spirit of Hope courage and unity that ultimately prevails with that now though it is time for my question of the day which is would you like to see more videos like this on other locations laurian Gondor mkid or any others at all let me know all of your thoughts and suggestions on this in the comment section down below and now to shout out our patrons you guys are continuing to support our short film the guards we are making good progress and I cannot thank you all enough we of course have the fire demon tier member of nashe and the wisard staff teer members of Andrew and Hunter so finally if you have managed to reach the end of this video 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Length: 17min 14sec (1034 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 23 2023