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Dates
Known to have existed during Sauron's occupation of Mordor during the Third Age (III 2951 - III 3019); a similar road presumably also existed during Sauron's rule of Mordor in the Second Age (c. II 1000 - II 3441)
Location
Running westward for some thirty miles from Barad-dûr to Mount Doom
Race
Sauron was one of the Ainur
Division
Settlements
Important peaks
Pronunciation
Sauron is pronounced 'sow'ron' ('ow' as in English 'now')
Meaning
Sauron means 'the abhorred'

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Sauron’s Road

The road between Barad-dûr and Orodruin

A road that ran across the desolate lands of the Plateau of Gorgoroth in Mordor. It connected Sauron's Dark Tower of Barad-dûr to the heart of Mount Doom, covering a distance of some thirty miles. The road emerged from the western gate of the Barad-dûr across an iron bridge, and ran for three miles between chasms in the earth, and then proceeded along a straight westward causeway that led upward to the eastern mountainside of Orodruin. From there it circled the cone of the great volcano until it reached an eastward-facing entrance far above: the doorway to Sauron's Chambers of Fire.


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