A second route "Sauron's Road" went from the west gate of Barad-dûr westwards across Gorgoroth to Mount Doom's "Chambers of Fire." This road ran from Barad-dûr between two smoking chasms and then reached the causeway that led to the mountain. Frodo and Sam travelled part of this route on their way south to Mount Doom. Barad-dûr rose above the arid plain of Gorgoroth, and lay south-east of Udûn and the Black Gate.įrom the fortress's east entrance a road went north then west to the Isenmouthe. The Dark Tower stood at the end of a south-western offshoot of the Ash Mountains (Ered Lithui), the range that ran eastwards from the Black Gate of Mordor. Barad-dûr is in the north of Mordor, to the east of Mount Doom. Sketch map of Mordor and Gondor in the Third Age. As the Dark Tower was held together by Sauron's power, it collapsed upon the destruction of the One Ring. Rebuilding began in the Third Age, 67 years before the War of the Ring. It was destroyed following the victory of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of that age. The Lieutenant of Barad-dûr is the Mouth of Sauron, described by Tolkien as "no Ringwraith but a living man", who serves as an ambassador and herald for Mordor and Sauron.īarad-dûr was completed by Sauron in the Second Age. Located in northwest Mordor, near Mount Doom, the Eye of Sauron keeps watch over Middle-earth from its highest tower. It is an enormous fortress of the Dark Lord Sauron, whence he rules the volcanic and barren land of Mordor. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings and is described in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and other works. TolkienĪt the end of an offshoot of the Ash Mountains in Mordorīarad-dûr (pronounced ), also called the Dark Tower, is a fictional place in J.
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