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	Dead Marshes - One Wiki to Rule Them All, the Lord of the Rings Encyclopedia
		The Dead Marshes is the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Dagorlad between the Last Alliance and the forces of Mordor, where many of the fallen were laid to rest.
		The Dead Marshes were located north-west of the Morannon, and southeast of the Emyn Muil.
		In the Journeys of Frodo atlas by Barbara Strachey, the Dead Marshes are depicted as an eastward extension of the swamps of Nindalf (Wetwang), although on the Lord of the Rings map they appear separate.
	lotr.wikia.com /wiki/Dead_Marshes (480 words)

	Wetlands & Marshes of Middle-earth
		The Dead Marshes were a vast network of pools, mires, and waterways east of the Emyn Muil.
		The Dead Marshes were located between the marshland called the Wetwang and the plain of Dagorlad where a great battle was fought during the War of the Last Alliance in 3434 of the Second Age.
		The area became known as the Dead Marshes because the faces of the dead could still be seen in the wide pools in the middle of the marshes.
	www.tuckborough.net /marshes.html (2136 words)

	Council of Elrond :: Lord of the Rings News and Information
		During the Third Age, the marsh had spread to cover part of the Dagorlad and many of the graves from the Battle of Dagorlad.
		The part of the marsh that has spread over the graves was then referred to as the Mere of Dead Faces.
		In TA 1944, an army of Wainriders defeated by Eärnil in the Battle of the Camp was driven into the Dead Marshes and perished.
	www.councilofelrond.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=Encyclopedia&file=index&action=DisplayTerm&pn_vid=&pn_id=3442 (240 words)

	Brown Marsh Q & A
		Brown Marsh is a term that Louisiana scientists have given to the rapid and unusual browning of Louisiana's intertidal smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) marshes.
		Scientists observed that salt marsh to the east in the vicinity of the Mississippi River diversion at Caernarvon have appeared healthy throughout this drought period.
		As marshes and barrier islands deteriorate, people and their communities are placed at increased risk from major storms, as well as from minor storm events.
	www.brownmarsh.net /qa.htm (926 words)

	With salt marshes dying, we're in for trouble - The Boston Globe
		Dying and dead marshes will mean a new coastal topography, especially after a hurricane strike or winter gale.
		Their grasses and other plants are part of a ecosystem of crabs and other animals that in the long run furnish the food for ocean fish and larger creatures higher on the food chain.
		The soft brown winter marsh, the chartreuse spring marsh, and the deep green marsh of summer and fall all become a chocolate brown mess.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/07/30/with_salt_marshes_dying_were_in_for_trouble (1103 words)

	Brown Marsh Q & A
		Brown Marsh is a term that Louisiana scientists have given to the rapid and unusual browning of Louisiana's intertidal smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) marshes.
		Scientists observed that salt marsh to the east in the vicinity of the Mississippi River diversion at Caernarvon have appeared healthy throughout this drought period.
		As marshes and barrier islands deteriorate, people and their communities are placed at increased risk from major storms, as well as from minor storm events.
	brownmarsh.net /qa.htm (926 words)

	Dead Marshes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dead Marshes are an ancient battlefield (especially known for being the setting for the Battle of Dagorlad), outside of Mordor.
		Barbara Strachey, in her fictionalised atlas Journeys of Frodo, depicts the Dead Marshes as an eastward extension of the swamps of Nindalf (Wetwang), although on the Lord of the Rings map they appear separate.
		In The Letters of J. Tolkien, Tolkien speculated that the description of the Dead Marshes may have been based on his personal experience in World War I, specifically, the Battle of the Somme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Marshes (436 words)

	Dead trees prompt funding to rescue marshes - National - smh.com.au
		The parliamentary secretary with responsibility for water, Malcolm Turnbull, said the 200,000-hectare marshes were clearly suffering due to the over-allocation of Macquarie River water for crops such as cotton.
		On his first visit to the marshes yesterday, Mr Turnbull said the sight of big river red gums that had died due to a lack of regular flooding proved the need for the spending of $13.4 million.
		The marshes are an internationally recognised bird breeding site, but the vast reed beds where the birds nest have shrunk greatly, and local graziers have had to halve the size of their herds.
	www.smh.com.au /news/national/dead-trees-prompt-funding-to-rescue-marshes/2006/08/18/1155408025284.html (506 words)

	Jamaica Bay Marsh Loss
		According to scientists who met recently to study the problem, the marshes, which are crucial to wildlife and to the bay's ecology, will disappear in less than 20 years if a solution is not found.
		Or that the piles of dead mussels might be smothering the marshes, Professor Franz said.
		The marshes could also be dying from pollutants: highway and asphalt runoff soaked with motor oil and diesel fuel; toxins leaching from three inactive hazardous-waste landfills; and raw sewage overflowing from wastewater treatment plants.
	pages.prodigy.net /rockaway/jambay.htm (1323 words)

	FOXNews.com - Salt Marshes Mysteriously Dying Along New England Shoreline - Biology \| Astronomy \| Chemistry \| Physics
		Ecologists warn that saltwater marshes from Maine to Connecticut are suddenly and inexplicably dying, leaving behind land resembling honeycombs, Swiss cheese or an eroded desert landscape.
		Salt marshes are wetlands dominated by plant life sheltered from surf and capable of living where coastal waters fluctuate.
		Losing a marsh means eliminating a habitat for hundreds of fish, birds, shellfish and mammals and destroying a buffer capable of weakening a hurricane's destructive surge.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,209970,00.html (1007 words)

	Dead Marshes
		The Dead Marshes were lying in the low land east south-east of Emyn Muil, between Emyn Muil, Dagorlad and Morannon, north-east of
		The Death-Marshes were wide stagnant marshes were the spirits of the dead of the battle the Last Alliance, Battle of the Camp and Battle of the Plains were seen.
		The marshes had grown since the days of those battles and it swallowed up graves, creeping ever closer and the wind there were cold and had a stench of old decay and rottenness.
	www.annalsofarda.dk /annals-of-arda/Places-index/Places-ME/Dead-Marshes.htm (147 words)

	SparkNotes: The Two Towers: Book IV, Chapter 2
		Gollum leads Frodo and Sam through the foul-smelling Dead Marshes, which are haunted by the slain warriors of a great past battle.
		In The Two Towers, Gollum leads the hobbits through the Dead Marshes, a realm of the dead, with waters that contain ghostly images of the faces of slain warriors.
		Much like the realms of the dead in the classical epics, the landscape of the Dead Marshes is deeply unpleasant, devoid of life and growth.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/twotowers/section9.rhtml (1050 words)

	The Dead Marshes
		All the warrior's souls reside trapped in the marshes.
		The dead are from the Last Alliance I presume.
		Never thought the dead marshe's souls were warriors of the Last alliance until I looked at the passage again.
	p067.ezboard.com /fmordor69452frm16.showMessage?topicID=32.topic (810 words)

	Dead Marshes - Tolkien Gateway
		The Dead Marshes are an ancient battlefield (Battle of Dagorlad), outside of Mordor.
		Barbara Strachey, in her fictionalised atlas Journeys of Frodo, depicts the Dead Marshes as an eastward extension of the swamps of Nindalf (Wetwang), although on the Lord of the Rings map they appear separate.
		In The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien speculated that the description of the Dead Marshes may have been based on his personal experience in World War I, specifically, the Battle of the Somme.
	tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Dead_Marshes (218 words)

	Dead Marshes -- The Battle for Middle Earth: The Rise of the Witch-King Vault
		The Dead Marshes is an area in Middle Earth which is best known by us as the area where Frodo fell into some water after fainting where he was sinking until Gollum pulled him out.
		The dead marshes was a just a scene of one of the numerous battle taken place in the war of the last alliance.
		At the dead marshes the battle that drove mordor back and the siege that lasted seven years until the battle of the last alliance.
	mevault.ign.com /View.php?view=Locations.Detail&id=3 (750 words)

	Italy Contributes 1.2 Million Euros To Restore Mesopotamian Marshes In Iraq
		Italy is contributing 1.2 million euros (US$1.3 million) to an environment project aimed at restoring the Mesopotamian marshes in Iraq and improve water supply for millions of people, officials said Wednesday.
		"The marshes are dead, completely dead," said Azzam Alwash, who oversees the project.
		Along with restoring the marshes, the project is intended to improve water supply and bring potable water to the Iraqi people.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/gjuly/29_italy.html (462 words)

	Fields & Plains of Middle-earth and Numenor
		The Dead Marshes and the sheer cliffs of the Emyn Muil were west of Dagorlad.
		It was said that the bodies could still be seen centuries later in the waters of the marshes, which became known as the Dead Marshes.
		At the end of the Second Age, the Men of the Mountains were cursed by Isildur for breaking their oath to fight Sauron and they haunted the Paths of the Dead.
	www.tuckborough.net /plains.html (4799 words)

	Dagorlad and the Dead Marshes : Middleearth - Produktinfo
		South of the Wilderland and north of Mordor lies a widely varying landscape stretching from the scarps and cliffs of the western Emyn Muil through the swamps and marshes of Nindalf to the bare plain known as the Dagorlad (S. Battle Plain).
		The regions waters gleamed with fish¸ and deer grazed the marsh grasses¸ bothered only by the hunting expeditions of the scattered tribes of Marshmen.
		These folk were almost always left alone and ignored by the wars and battles which raged about them¸ for their watery lands have always been too difficult for an army to cross with any speed¸ and treacherous indeed for those not born of the marshes.
	www.drosi.de /archont/buy/id615557412464 (347 words)

	'Two Towers' marshes make natural sounds - The Advocate
		HOLLYWOOD -- The slurpy, sloshy sounds of the Dead Marshes in "The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers" are as authentic as they could get, according to Ethan Van Der Ryan, the film's supervising sound editor/co-sound designer.
		The Dead Marshes allowed the filmmakers to experiment with their different sound making abilities.
		The sound team was then able to turn the vocal noises into the mud bubbles and wind into the "slurpy, sloshy elements" required for these scenes.
	www.stamfordadvocate.com /business/chi-021217epsounds,0,4267935.story (267 words)

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		Out from their feet were flung huge buttresses and broken hills that were now at the nearest scarce a dozen miles away.
		Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.
		Even to the Mere of Dead Faces some haggard phantom of green spring would come; but here neither spring nor summer would ever come again.
	www.tamu-commerce.edu /Tolkien/projects/tolkien12.doc (742 words)

	The Journey through the Dead Marshes of the Great War
		They had come to the very midst of the Dead Marshes, and it was dark.
		'There are dead things, dead faces in the water', he said with horror.
		The Dead Marshes, by Patrice Deceuninck from Lille, France (MP3-file, 846 Kb)
	www.greatwar.nl /tolkien/tolkienfragmente.html (635 words)

	Battle of Dagorlad - Tolkien Gateway
		It was fought between the army of the Last Alliance under Gil-galad and Elendil and an army of Orcs and other creatures loyal to Sauron.
		The army of the Last Alliance won the battle and was able to attack the Morannon, the entrance to Sauron's land of Mordor.
		Later, in the Third Age, the Dagorlad was the site of several battles between Gondor and various Easterling armies, and the climatic Battle of the Morannon.
	tolkiengateway.net /wiki/Battle_of_Dagorlad (262 words)

	SMME
		of mine is this Dead Marshes motif, reprised later at 00:44:06.
		One common dramatic element of the Dead Marshes scenes is the connection
		is drawn to the dead warriors and to Gollum.
	groups.msn.com /SMME/tttm04.msnw (1098 words)

	The Lord of the Rings
		But even indoors or on the warmest days, shooting the marsh scenes was a chilly affair for all concerned, especially the actors.
		By using nets, shading and polarization techniques, Lesnie was able to curb the natural reflectiveness of the dead marshes and achieve just the right opacity for the water.
		Smoke machines sent steady mists floating across the set to add atmosphere and by using the massive exterior tank in conjunction with computer-generated extensions, Lesnie was able to convey the scope of the marshes required by Jackson.
	www.lordoftherings.net /legend/lands/deadmarshes/index.html (707 words)

	Odds and Ends
		Then a similar phrase is heard as Frodo becomes mesmerized by the Marshes lights and dead faces and ultimately falls into the water.
		The faces in the Dead Marshes were from those lost in the Battle of Dagorlad.
		This was not the final battle in the War of the Last Alliance, which we see in the prologue to FOTR.
	www.geocities.com /magpie930/THEMES/THodds_ends.htm (1964 words)

	[No title]
		Dagorlad, the ancient Battle Plain upon which the hosts of Gilgalad and Elendil fought Sauron's forces outside the Black Gate in the second age, is now the Dead Marshes, while Udûn is the area enclosed by arms thrust out from the Mountains of Shadow and the Ash Mountains.
		Its only mention in the movies, as you may remember, was Gandalf saying to the Balrog, "The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn." I believe Udûn was important in some way to Morgoth, but I haven't read the Silmarillion yet.
		According to the Dead Marshes concept image gallery commentaries on Disk 3 of the TTT SEE, the movie features no Orcs because it was feared moviegoers would think there were live Orcs swimming around underwater trying to catch Frodo.
	www.simglobal.net /lotr/du.shtml (616 words)

	Recovery and Phylogenetic Analysis of nifH Sequences from Diazotrophic Bacteria Associated with Dead Aboveground ...
		and decomposition (15, 19, 38) in Spartina marshes are nitrogen
		Standing dead and wrack stalks were broken up into 2-cm fragments.
		Spatial and temporal assessment of diazotroph assemblage composition in vegetated salt marsh sediments using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis.
	aem.asm.org /cgi/content/full/67/11/5308 (3183 words)

	The Dead Marshes
		Beneath the murky water of the marshes the hobbits catch glimspes of the dead Men, Elves and Orcs, whilst all around them are ghostly lights.
		As they travel across the Dead Marshes Frodo, Sam and Gollum see the Nazgûl's new steeds, when one of the Nazgûl flies overhead.
		True to his word Gollum has led the hobbit's across the Dead Marshes, and later he takes them right up the the Black Gate.
	www.cirith-ennor.co.uk /deadmarshes.html (260 words)

	Middle Earth Places: Dead Marshes
		The Dead Marshes are on the edge of the Battle Plain of Dagorlad.
		The graveyard has bcome an ever growing marsh that is perilous because the lights that beckon from underwater.
		Later, while crossing the Dead Marshes, Frodo asked Gollum about his given name, Sméagol, which seemed to begin to soften Gollum.
	www.patriotresource.com /lotr/places/deadmarsh.html (135 words)

	The Dead Marshes and WWI at A History Teacher
		The Dead Marshes and WWI at A History Teacher
		When I showed this image someone in one of my classes said it looked like the Dead Marshes from the Lord of the Rings movies (The Two Towers).
		I had a vague memory of Tolkien serving in WWI so I did a little research and apparently it looks like there is a connection.
	www.ahistoryteacher.com /wordpress/?p=196 (372 words)

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