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The Lord of the Rings
Part I. The Fellowship of the Ring
A Guide to Tolkien's Novel
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| Maps of Middle-earth (scanned from novel) |
Gondor and Mordor |
Middle-Earth |
zoom on Frodo's journey |
zoom in the Shire |
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Places
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Barad-dûr: the 'Dark Tower', Lugbúrz,
Sauron's dungeons in Mordor
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Bree: town of Men and Hobbits nearest the Shire
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Buckland: region of the Shire on the other side of the
river from Hobbiton
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Dagorlad: field where a terrible battle against Sauron
raged at the end of the Second Age (see people, Gil-galad, Elendil)
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Eregion: or Hollin. Elven-smiths from this land forged
the Rings of Power
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Gondor: closest kingdom to Mordor,
whose people suffer most from Sauron's attacks
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Great River Anduin: flows from Lothlórien
through Gondor and Mordor, to the Sea, river in which Isildur was killed and the Ring lost
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Isengard: where the great Wizard Saruman dwelves
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Khazad-dûm: Dwarf name for their city
of Moria
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Lothlórien: once called Laurelindórenan, 'Land of
the valley of singing gold', now Lórien, Golden Wood, Dwimordene, 'Dreamflower', home of Lady Galadriel,
land of Elves protected from evil by her Great Ring, so doomed to fade whether the Master Ring
is found by Sauron or destroyed
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Mirkwood: home of Legolas, land of Wood-Elves, an
infamous forest deadly to those who stray from the path that goes through it,
suffocating and "everlastingly still and dark and stuffy"; most of its waters and animals are poisonous
to people, and giant spiders live there
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Misty Mountains: Rivendell lies before them, and
Moria underneath
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Mordor: Land of Sauron
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Moria: ancient abandonned mithril mines dug in the sides
of the Misty Mountains, where the Dwarves had built a great City
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Mount Doom: or Orodruin, Mountain of Fire, volcano in Mordor, where Sauron forged his Master Ring
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Númenor: Westernesse, furthest island in the
west of mortal land (see Númenoreans)
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Old Forest: infamous woods next to Buckland, in the Shire
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Orodruin: see Mount Doom
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Prancing Poney: inn in Bree where Frodo meets Strider
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Rivendell: or Imladris, home of Lord Elrond, land of Elves, protected
from evil by his Great Ring
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Rohan: land close to Gondor, where the fastest horses are bred
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Shire: beloved homeland of most Hobbits, amongst which Bilbo, Frodo and his friends
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