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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam went there to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was unique because of the three enormous mountain ridges surrounding it, from the North, from the West and from the South, that protected this land from an unexpected invasion by any of the people living in those directions.1 Geography
Mordor was protected from three sides by mountain ranges, arranged roughly rectangularly: Ered Lithui in the north, Ephel Dúath in the west, and an unnamed (or possibly still called Ephel Dúath) range in the south. In the northwest corner of Mordor the deep valley of Udûn was the only entrance for large armies, and that is where Sauron built the Blakc Gate of Mordor. In front of the Morannon lay the Dagorlad or the Battle Plain. Sauron's main fortress Barad-dûr was at the foothills of Ered Lithui. To southwest of Barad-dûr lay the arid plateau of Gorgoroth and Mount Doom; to the east lay the plain of LithladLithlad was a region of Mordor in the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. Realms of Middle-earth.. A narrow pass led through Ephel Dúath and the fortress of Minas MorgulMinas Morgul ( Elvish: Tower of Dark Sorcery is a fictional city and tower in the story of The Lord of the Rings by J. Its original name was Minas Ithil ("Tower of the Rising Moon" in the Elvish language of Sindarin). It was one of three great cities of t (earlier Minas IthilIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Minas Ithil ("Tower of the Moon" in Sindarin) was Gondor's watchtower in the east as Minas Anor was the watchtower in the west. In the time after the destruction of Numenor, the sons of Elendil, Isildur and Anarion, landed in) was guarding that; an even more difficult pass was guarded by the giant spider ShelobShelob is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth. In the original story she appears in the last-but-one chapter of The Two Towers the second volume of The Lord of the Rings''. In Peter Jackson's movie trilogy based on the books Shel and the fortress of Cirith UngolFor the US heavy metal band, see Cirith Ungol (band). Cirith Ungol is a fictional location in J. Tolkien's universe of Middle-earth. Pronounced Keereeth Oongoll the name is Sindarin for Spider's Cleft it is the pass through the western mountains of Mordor. Another known fortress was DurthangDurthang was a fortress in the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. It guarded the slopes of Ephel Duath in Mordor. Middle-earth places. in northern Ephel Dúath.
The southern part of Mordor, NúrnNurn was a region in the realm of Mordor in the fictional world of Middle-earth by J. It held the inland sea of Nurnen, and was fertile enough to support farming to support the armies of Sauron, as opposed to the arid plateau of Gorgoroth. It was inhabite, was slighly more fertile, and moist enough to carry the inland sea of NúrnenIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, the Sea of Nurnen was an inland sea in Mordor, Middle-earth. It held bitter water not suitable for drinking, but the area around it, Nurn, was fertile enough (watered by a river system coming from the Ephel Duath) to feed the. Nurn was made somewhat fertile because the ash blown from Mount Doom left its soil nutrient rich, thus allowing dry-land farming. Unfortunately, the inland sea of Núrn was salty, not freshwater.
To the west of Mordor was the narrow land of Ithilien with the city of Osgiliath and the great river Anduin, to the northeast Rhûn, and to the southeast, Khand.
