![]() ![]() fandom links, which may place the collection of this information as recently as June 2019, around the time the wiki moved to the Fandom system. wikia links, as opposed to the more current. ![]() ![]() Interestingly, the citations here use the old. Two excerpts from the The Lord of the Rings Wiki - from the articles for Barad-Dur and the Fellbeast - can be found in Content/Data/Articy/Bin/data.xml. ![]() For the most part, while fellbeasts vaguely resemble outdated pterosaur depictions, they are vastly different from the modern scientific interpretation of these animals, as endothermic, hairy quadrupedes instead of "featherless birds". While occasionally interpreted as resembling pterosaurs, Tolkien himself stated that the creatures were not intended to be "pterodactylic", though he conceded similarities. As Isildur failed to destroy the Ring, the tower was eventually re-built when Sauron returned to Mordor thousands of years later. It was the greatest fortress built since the fall of Angband during the War of Wrath.īarad-dûr fell under siege for seven years by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men during the Second Age, and was leveled after Sauron's defeat at the hands of Isildur, but because it was created using the power of the One Ring, its foundations could not be destroyed completely while the Ring itself still existed. The construction of the tower began around the SA 1000, and took six hundred years to complete. Contains original research as well as excerpts from the The Lord of the Rings books and other sources.īarad-dûr was built by Sauron in the land of Mordor, not far from the volcano known as Mount Doom. Information about some of the characters and locations portrayed in the game. ![]()
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