After the trailer hit of the new show with the pronounciation of Mordor in that video, i see sooo many people in the youtube comments saying "why is she saying it wrong", "She says mordor weirdly", even had one guy reply to me saying he scoured all of Tolkiens interviews and he doesnt roll his R's (which he does, the commentor was likely lying).
The Nine Rings Sauron gave to great lords of Men, and was successful in ensnaring them. The bearers of the Nine Rings became great among Men, and their kingdoms flourished during their extraordinarily long reigns; they became powerful new allies of Mordor, most of which remained ever after in the service of Sauron. One by one, the bearers of the Nine Rings took ill, and gradually disappeared, though few marked it; by SA 2250 all had been consumed by their Rings, and became the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, the chief servants of Sauron. They came to Mordor, and there under the One they became wielders of great power, and the most feared of all the generals of Mordor. From SA 1700-1900, Sauron spread his influence far and wide in the lands of Middle-Earth, especially in Rhûn. Groups of Númenoreans came to Sauron, chiefly followers of the three Númenorean Ring-Wielders: the first of the Black Númenoreans, who became some of his chief servants.
3 rings for the Elven-kings: Fashioned by Celebrimbor, chief of the Elven-smiths Sauron had no part in their making & never even saw them. They were fashioned around the year 1590 of the Second Age, and hidden when it was learned that the One Ring had been forged for they could be controlled by that ring. The rings were: 1) Vilya: Given to Gil-galad, the last of the High-elven kings of Middle-earth. He in turn gave the ring to Elrond who kept it at Rivendell until the end of the Third Age ; 2) Nenya: The only ring to have stayed with its original owner. Given to Galadriel, one of the most royal princesses of the Noldar. She kept the ring in Lothlorien, until she left at the end of the Third Age ; 3) Narya: Given to Cirdan the shipwright, one of the mightiest and wisest of the Grey-elves (Avari). He gave the ring to Gandalf when he came to Middle-earth around the year 1,000 of the Third Age.
In 1981, author Karen Wynn Fonstad released The Atlas of Middle-earth, an official reference book under the Tolkien estate. It used all of Tolkien's published writings to try and detail Middle-earth as accurately as possible, and while there were a couple mistakes here and there, for the most part it was seen as a worthy guide. However, Fonstad made the assumption that Mordor was once covered by the Sea of Helcar, and that a great battle against the dark lord Morgoth caused a tectonic uplift and rose Mordor to become part of the land. For a while, this was as good a guess as any.
In the Second Age, Sauron, in the guise of handsome Annatar, taught Celebrimbor the world-shaping art of ring-making. He snuck dark binding magic into the rings, which he would later use to his advantage with the One Ring. Once Sauron wore the One Ring, the ruse was off. Celebrimbor was tortured by Sauron and is killed after he reveals the locations of the Rings of Men and Dwarves.
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As bad lots go, you can't get much worse than the hordes of Mordor from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." Led by an utterly evil disembodied entity who manifests himself as a gigantic, flaming, pitiless eye, and composed of loathsome orcs (or goblins), trolls and foreigners, Mordor's armies are ultimately defeated and wiped out by the virtuous and noble elves, dwarfs, ents and human beings -- aka the "free peoples" -- of Middle-earth. No one sheds a tear over Mordor's downfall, although the hobbit Sam Gamgee does spare a moment to wonder if a dead enemy soldier is truly evil or has simply been misguided or coerced into serving the dark lord Sauron.
Some Tolkien fans have dismissed "The Last Ringbearer" as nothing more than fan fiction, although it certainly doesn't conform to the stereotype of fan fiction as fantasies of unlikely romantic pairings among "canonical" characters as imagined by teenage girls. What the novel most closely resembles is "Wind Done Gone" by Alice Randall, a retelling of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" from the perspective of a slave born on Scarlett O'Hara's plantation. "Wind Done Gone" was published in 2001, prompting a copyright infringement suit from Mitchell's estate. Randall, who is African-American, and her publisher mounted a defense resting in part on the argument that "Wind Done Gone" is a "parody," intended to highlight the retrograde racial attitudes and historical distortions in Mitchell's misty-eyed depiction of the Old South.
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