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Dates
Originally built during the Second Age; destroyed 25 March III 3019
Location
Crossing the Haunted Pass of Cirith Gorgor
Origins
Built by Sauron
Other names
Black Gates, Gate of Mordor, Gates of Mordor, Morannon

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Black Gate

The gate that guarded the northwestern entrance to Mordor

Map of the Black Gate

The Morannon, the mighty fortified gateway built by Sauron to guard the northern entrance to his Black Land of Mordor.


See also...

Aragorn Elessar, Artamir, Ash Mountains, Base Master of Treachery, Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Battle Plain, Black Gates, Captain of the Host of the West, Carach Angren, Carchost, Cirith Gorgor, Dark Lord, Dervorin, Desolation of the Morannon, East Anórien, [See the full list...]

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