![]() ![]() He was tortured for information regarding the whereabouts of the One Ring, as Sauron had learned that he had once possessed it, and thus Sauron learned that the One Ring had been found. Some time near the end of the Third Age ( TA 3009- TA 3017), Gollum was captured and taken to Barad-dûr, while Gandalf and Aragorn were also searching for him. As Isildur failed to destroy the Ring, the tower was eventually re-built when Sauron returned to Mordor thousands of years later in TA 2942. But because it was created using the power of the One Ring, its foundations could not be destroyed while the Ring itself still existed. īarad-dûr was besieged for seven years by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men during the Second Age, and was leveled after Sauron's defeat at the hands of Isildur. It was the greatest fortress built since the fall of Angband during the War of Wrath. The construction of the tower began around the SA 1000, and took six hundred years to complete. Tolkien describes little of the tower besides its terror and surreal size.īarad-dûr was built by Sauron in the land of Mordor, not far from the volcano known as Mount Doom. Sauron had Barad-dûr rebuilt late in the Third Age as he regained his power, but the tower was forever destroyed immediately upon the destruction of the One Ring. It was originally built in the Second Age, and leveled after Sauron's defeat in the War of the Last Alliance. Barad-dûr was sustained by dark magic and was the greatest fortress in Middle-earth of its time. ![]()
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