![]() Finally, the Fellowship's entry into the darkness via the deadly lake by the West Gate, and its exit into the light via the beautiful Mirrormere, alongside Gandalf's death and reappearance, has been compared to a baptism, a ceremony that combines a symbolic death and the gift of new life. The West Gate that the Watcher in the Water crashes closed behind the Fellowship recalled to commentators the Wandering Rocks of Greek mythology, and Odysseus's passage between the devouring Scylla and the whirlpool Charybdis. The name Moria, Tolkien wrote, echoed the name of a castle in a Norwegian folktale, while Gandalf's death and reappearance reminded critics of the resurrection and transfiguration of Jesus. Scholars have identified likely sources for Tolkien's Moria: he had studied a Latin inscription about a lost ring at the temple of Nodens in Gloucestershire, at a place called Dwarf's Hill full of old mine-workings. It was dark, in dangerous disrepair, and in its labyrinths lurked Orcs and the Balrog. By the end of the Third Age, Moria had long been abandoned by the Dwarves, and was a place of evil repute. The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep for mithril, and disturbed a demon of great power: a Balrog, which destroyed their kingdom. The city's wealth was founded on its mines, which produced mithril, a fictional metal of great beauty and strength, suitable for armour. In much of Middle-earth's fictional history, Moria was the greatest city of the Dwarves. Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines and halls under the Misty Mountains, with doors on both the western and the eastern sides of the mountain range. Years of the Trees – T.A. 1981 Fourth Age Although Curumo, Being The Greatest Of The Wizards Disobeyed Them And Was Banished From Valar (Country In Middle Earth).Kings of Durin's Folk (to T.A. 1981) Durin's Bane, Azog Balin Durin VII These 5 Wizards Where Not Aloud To Hurt All The Free People Of Middle Earth Or Match Sauron Power To Power. Then Yavarda (Aule's Wife) Begged Curumo To Take Aiwendell (Radagast), Then Alatar To Pallando (Romestamo) As A Friend. They Only Had 2 So The King (Manwe) Asked Where Olorin (Gandalf) Was, He Later Came After A Journey, Manwe Asked Olorin To be The Third Messenger Although Olorin Said He Was To Weak To Go And Was Afraid Of Sauron, Which Made It All The Reason To Go, So Olorin Went As The Third - Although Then Varda (Manwe's Wife) Said ''Not As The Third''. In The Old Days Of Middle Earth, In The Undying Lands, A King Called Manwe Summoned 3 Messengers To Middle Earth For Protection From Sauron, 2 Went First, Curumo (Sauroman) Sent By Aule, Also Altar (Morinehetar). They will never stop hunting you."- Aragorn, explaining the Nazgûl's origin to Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry At all times, they feel the presence of the Ring, drawn to the power of the One. They are the Nazgûl, Ringwraiths, neither living nor dead. ![]() Blinded by their greed, they took them without question, one by one, falling into darkness. Then Sauron the Deciever gave them Nine Rings of Power. They Dwelt Through The Third Age In Minas Morgul (City In Mordor). They Are Also Known As The Nine (Since There Are Nine). One Of The Nazgul Is Called ''The Witch King Of Agmar'', He Is The One That Stabbed Frodo With The 'Morgul-Blade'. ![]() They Are In A Way Connected To The Ring, So If Someone Where To Put ''The One Ring On'' They Would Know Exactly Where To Find It. Nazgul Or The The Black Riders Are Ringwraiths, They Where The 9 Men That Got The Ring (Beggining Of LOTR) But Got Brought To The Dark Side By Sauron.
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