Ephel Dúath

Also known as black knees of the Ephel Dúath

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Black forbidding mountain range with rocky seats, sheer faces, chasms, tall stone piers and jagged pinnacles carved by forgotten winters.

Type: mountain_range
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 14
Books: 2

Ephel Dúath, the grim mountain-wall that forms the western boundary of Mordor, first appears in The Two Towers as a forbidding barrier of black rock and jagged pinnacles that Frodo, Sam, and Gollum must cross to reach the land of shadow. By the time the narrative reaches The Return of the King, the range has become the strategic backdrop for the War of the Ring: its passes and watch-towers are seized by Sauron’s forces, then later contested by the Captains of the West, turning the once-silent cliffs into a theatre of siege and desperate battle.

History

BOOK 2The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings
Black forbidding mountain range with rocky seats, sheer faces, chasms, tall stone piers and jagged pinnacles carved by forgotten winters.
BOOK 3The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings