The Black Gate Opens Tolkien Gateway

The Black Gate Opens Scene Tolkien Gateway The black gate opens is the tenth chapter of the first book in the return of the king. summary. two days after the decision by the captains of the west to assault mordor, the armies of the west set out, numbering seven thousand. at imrahil’s urging, a small force remained in minas tirith to defend the city. Synopsis. the captains of the west ride back from the black gate towards their soldiers after their encounter with the mouth of sauron. aragorn rallies the army of men with a speech and readies them for the seemingly hopeless battle which is imminent. he recognises their fear but bids them fight for all they hold dear in the world.

Black Gate Tolkien Gateway The black gate was a single gate of iron, which consisted of two vast iron doors under a frowning arch, [2] in a rampart of stone with a battlement that stretched between the high cliffs on either side of the mouth of the pass. on two sheer, black boned and bare hills that were thrust forward from the mouth of the pass stood two strong and tall. The black gate or morannon was a gate built across cirith gorgor, and the most fortified, direct entrance into sauron's realm of mordor. the black gate was set in an impregnable black stone and iron wall that stretched from the mountains of ash in the north to the ephel dúath in the west. the wall had but a single gate set into its length and was patrolled unceasingly, with hundreds of orc. Summary — the black gate opens. two days later, the armies of the west set out for mordor, numbering seven thousand. at imrahil’s urging, a small force remains in minas tirith to defend the city. though the injured merry cannot go to battle, pippin marches as a soldier of gondor. the army passes osgiliath and makes camp; the horsemen move. "the rider was robed all in black, and black was his lofty helm; yet this was no ringwraith but a living man. the lieutenant of the tower of barad dûr he was, and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and he said: ‘i am the mouth of sauron.’" —the return of the king, "the black gate opens"[2] the mouth of sauron was one of sauron's most devoted servants.