black gate

Into the valley of death rode the 600, although this feels more like the first day of The Battle of the Somme which Tolkien knew something about. This is the last throw of the dice as Gandalf put it though I can't quite see Gandalf being the wizard who broke the bank at Edhellond - no sensible...

A "what if" scenario has been on my mind today and is as follows -Gollum's deceitful yet brilliant plan to use Shelob to ambush and kill Frodo and Sam works. He regains the One Ring and successfully hides for years, maybe decades or more, somewhere in Middle Earth with his precious. -The...

People really take it as a given that Pippin, Gandalf, and Aragorn would be able to walk away from the Battle of the Black Gate. Sauron's forces greatly outnumbered them. Even though the war would have been won by the destruction of the Ring, it could easily have transpired that say, Aragorn...

Just a hand-me-down reference from the thoughts of Frodo: I suppose the source could be anyone from Bilbo, to Elves, to Gandalf!

I am looking for the passages where The mouth of sauron presents evidence that Frodo was captured. Does anyone know what I am looking for?

Even with Sauron himself being defeated, it was pretty well stated that the armies of Mordor and its allies greatly outnumbered the armies of the West. While I can understand, if Sauron's armies of orcs and trolls might be weakened or killed if they were vulnerable to sunlight, surely the...

Let's look at this passage: ' "I was the herald of Gil-galad and marched with his host. I was at the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor, where we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and Sword of Elendil, Aiglos and Narsil, none could withstand." ' The Fellowship of the...

Of interest corner: http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1047582857 apologies if it's already been toasted in the forum's fire.

I've often wondered about the description of this battle. It states specifically that all middle earth was divided that day, even beasts and birds fought on either side. Specifically "only the elves were undivided." I've always wondered if that meant that some orcs and trolls fought on the...