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  Dol Guldur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dol Guldur was established by Sauron after his return to Middle-earth somewhere after 1000 Third Age, although his identity was long unknown.
Dol Guldur remained staffed by a lieutenant of Barad-dûr.
Dol Guldur was finally destroyed and cleansed by the Elves of Lórien, led by Galadriel, after Sauron's fall.
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 Fortresses and Towers of Middle-earth
The hill of Dol Guldur was originally called Amon Lanc, the Naked Hill, because it was bare of trees with a stony summit.
Sauron maintained an outpost at Dol Guldur and in 2951 he sent the Nazgul known as Khamul the Easterling to command the stronghold.
The Elves captured Dol Guldur and Galadriel threw down the walls of the stronghold and the shadow was lifted from the forest.
www.tuckborough.net /fortress.html   (7269 words)

  
 Dol Guldur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The orcs of Dol Guldur range throughout southern Mirkwood, especially in the central portions of the forest.
Dol Guldur is occupied primarily by orcs, orcs of all stripes and breeds.
Dol Guldur was first occupied by Sauron early in the Third Age, after the spirit of Sauron fled from defeat at the hands of the Great Alliance.
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 Famous Places
Dol Guldur, located to the southern end of Mirkwood (formerly known as Greenwood the Great), became the first stronghold of Sauron after taking shape again in the Third Age.
The White Council, after many debating and watching, finally assailded Dol Guldur and caused Sauron to flee to the east which was, as was later known, only a feint.
Dol Guldur remainded deserted for a long time until one of the Nazgûl finally returned thither as captain of Sauron.
home.arcor.de /gisli.vogler/html/famous_places.html   (2075 words)

  
 Dol Guldur - THE TOLKIEN FORUM
Three times Lórien had been assailed from Dol Guldur, but besides the valour of the elven people of that land, the power that dwelt there was too great for any to overcome, unless Sauron had come there himself.
Dol Guldor is where Sauron made his fortress in southern Mirkwood after he was defeated the first time.
Dol Guldor is a volcanic "plug" in Southern Mirkwood and it was here that Sauron began to put forth his power when he returned long years after his defeat by the Last Alliance.
www.thetolkienforum.com /showthread.php?t=9085   (628 words)

  
 Summoning
TERRORIZER 4/5 (Dol Guldur) - Coming from a band that actually had the cheek to entitle a previous disc 'Minas Morgul', Summoning's third outing belies the Tolkiensesque 'Heidi" -meets-'The Sound Of Music' stereotype that plagues so much of the more, er, fantastical end of Black Metal.
'Dol Guldur' alernates between Mortiis-meets-In The Nursery key-and-drum machine stompers and a more full-on approach that is all the t\more incredible for its utter Samaelness.
Chronicles Of Chaos 10/10 (Dol Guldur) - I have basically worshipped this band since last year's amazing _Minas Morgul_, in which Protector and Silenius (who is also in Abigor) abandoned the raw fl metal of their debut and pioneered a unique, mesmerizing style of epic-ambient, flened-medieval-metallic music.
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 Encyclopedia of Arda: Dol Guldur
The stronghold of Sauron in the southern regions of Mirkwood, where he dwelt in secret as the Necromancer, until discovered by the Wise.
When they assaulted him, he withdrew to Mordor, but the Nazgûl soon returned to reclaim Dol Guldur.
The word dol literally means 'head', not 'hill', but it is often used figuratively in the names of high or prominent places (Dol Amroth and Dol Baran are further examples).
www.glyphweb.com /arda/d/dolguldur.html   (175 words)

  
 Ancient History in MIRKWOOD
In Third Age 1636 came a terrible plague, issuing from the Dol Guldur itself and killing over half of the woodland folk of that region before devastating the population of Osgiliath and central Gondor.
In the year 2063 Gandalf came to Dol Guldur, intent on discovering the nature of ‘The Necromancer’ - then suspected to be a Ringwraith, and not Sauron himself.
Finally in 2941 Saruman consented to attack Dol Guldur - he led the White Council and a host of Lórien’s Elves in an assault on the tower of the Necromancer.
www.esatclear.ie /~vildarsplace/meo/mirkwood/mw_history.html   (1213 words)

  
 The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - [White Council] When the White Council attacked Dol Guldur...
Didn't the attack on Dol Guldur take place during the time that Gandalf was away from Bilbo, Thorin and company, ie between their sojourn at Beorn's place and the Battle of Five Armies.
He knew their plans, that they were going to urge an attack on Dol Guldur, trying to capture/slay (I do not know) Sauron.
To leave Dol Guldur is one thing, he couldn't take the risk of being overrun by the White Council.
forum.barrowdowns.com /archive/index.php/t-5988   (3170 words)

  
 Reappearance of Evil and the Necromancer | Lord of the Rings Fanatics Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The first portent of recurring evil was a veiled shadow which appeared and grew in the southern part of Greenwood the Great, the largest forest in the West of Middle-earth, which afterwards became known as Mirkwood because of this shadow.
The master of Dol Guldur, known under the name of the Necromancer, was initially thought to be one of the Ringwraiths.
Apart from the Úlairi, and the growing shadow of Dol Guldur, there was yet another potent of returning evil in the first half of Third Age.
www.lotrlibrary.com /agesofarda/reappearence.asp   (892 words)

  
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As the orc patrol continued their way south to Dol Guldur, they were speculating on what might be in store for the captive.
Dol Guldur was about a furlong away, in the centre of an area of open ground nearly four acres in size.
The patrol was back at Dol Guldur, but still struggling to cross the last few yards of forest to the edge of the clearing.
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 Katarina and Mallory xping in OOC
A Dol Guldur uruk tries to slash you, but your parry is successful.
You swiftly dodge a Dol Guldur orc's attempt to stab you.
You swiftly dodge a Dol Guldur uruk's attempt to slash you.
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 Summoning
The songs on "Dol Guldur" are more in a way of modilation then on "Minas Morgul", partly sung in a whispering, haunted way, partly spoken with deep sounding vocals.
The music on "Dol Guldur" is more orchestral composed while the music on "Minas Morgul" has more easy impressing melody lines.
All four songs are much more melancholical than on "Dol Guldur" with more easy impressing melody lines, and less in the way of meditation as on "Dol Guludr".
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 MUME.NET - LOGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A Dol Guldur orc tries to slash *Burst the Eriadorian Man*, but he parries successfully.
A Dol Guldur orc is incapacitated and will slowly die, if not aided.
* W C HP:Hurt *Puggie the Sindarin Elf*:Fine a Dol Guldur orc:Dying *Puggie the Sindarin Elf* panics, and attempts to flee.
mume.mine.nu /show.php?id=2318   (21355 words)

  
 THE EASTERLING
Before Dol Guldur had been built, the site of its erection was covered in living trees that were brutally cut down in order to accommodate the Necromancer, the name by which Sauron was known when he inhabited the fortress.
What was left of Dol Guldur after the elves were done with it was little more than a mound of large stones where the fortress had been.
She felt badly for her manner since leaving Dol Guldur because it could not have been easy for him to come home to tell his father what was needed without having to worry about her as well.
www.ans.com.au /~gsuter/Easterling4.htm   (10362 words)

  
 Silver Leaves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He must be growing senile to leave clear enough signs for them to follow; but he'd been tired already after his escape and the spider-ambush two days march West of Dol Guldur, and had not taken the care he should to cover his tracks.
They tended to stay close around Dol Guldur where the Necromancer had ordered the trees felled to fuel his vile furnaces.
It cost him the utmost effort to deflect it, and the horror he'd seen and felt in Dol Guldur had worn down his spirit.
home.earthlink.net /~scorpius-farscape.tv/silver_leaves.html   (2089 words)

  
 Something Wicked This Way Comes
But Dol Guldur was most likely a huge fortress, a small city, from the outset.
That is, he established his base on Dol Guldur and made it secure enough to discourage casual visitors and light assaults.
In fact, it would be about fifty years from the time the first Hobbits arrived in Eriador until the Wise ascertained that Dol Guldur had become a stronghold of evil.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4786/94801   (3043 words)

  
 MIRKWOOD The Evil of Southern Mirkwood
The broken cap of Dol Guldur towers over the dark woods, issuing noisome mists that blot out the sun and deepen the shadows.
The broken summit of Dol Guldur is a live volcano, though it has not erupted for countless centuries it still emits occasional wafts of sulphurous fumes.
In the Third Age the Necromancer was drawn to the summit - perhaps because his treasure lay nearby in the bed of the Anduin.
www.esatclear.ie /~vildarsplace/meo/mirkwood/evil.html   (783 words)

  
 Summoning - Dol Guldur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The smoothest Summoning album "Dol Goldur" leaps into ancient adventures written in mood and atmosphere from deathlike to playful in the holistic style of the past.
Honor and war on earth are celebrated with a sense of simple and majestic emptiness.
Symbology inspired by Tolkien encodes raw creation reaching toward life with the same motion that must embrace death.
www.anus.com /zine/music/summoning/dol_guldur   (149 words)

  
 Tawarwaith - The Fanlisting for the Elves of Mirkwood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Mirkwood is the mighty forest that lay in the lands east of the River Anduin.
The name 'Mirkwood' was used of this forest after Sauron, in his guise as the Necromancer, took up his abode at Dol Guldur in its southern regions.
Eventually Sauron chose to settle within the Forest itself, and in fact built his fortress of Dol Guldur on the hill of Amon Lanc, where the Silvan Elves had originally dwelt.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The White Council attacks Dol Guldur, but Sauron is prepared and abandons Dol Guldur.
Saruman agreed to an attack on Dol Guldur, since he now wished to prevent Sauron from searching the River Anduin.
Meanwhile, Gandalf and the White Council attack Dol Guldur and Sauron flees.
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 [No title]
These guys aren't real winners from the other point of view either, since they are the "Dark Masters" that allow minions to be more resistant to corruption.
When he is at Dol Guldur, you may keep one more card than normal in your hand.
Leaving them sitting around in the various Darkhavens wastes their talent, and doesn't have any additional mitigating factors like it does in the case of Elrond and Galadriel (Vilya and Nenya).
fan.theonering.net /morgulrats/cotd/cotd531.html   (819 words)

  
 Mission to Dol Guldur, by Jay of Lasgalen
She clung to the fury she felt with herself and the curiosity - it helped to keep at bay the utter terror that lurked in her mind.
By slitting her eyes open she could see they were approaching Dol Guldur.
By riding hard the elf patrol reached Dol Guldur by late afternoon.
www.freewebs.com /edhellond3/jayoflasgalen/mission3.htm   (3752 words)

  
 Guild Companion Discussions: Quick Dol Guldur question.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I just received my FINAL MERP item, Dol Guldur.
Even if there was, it would have been one of the Fenlon drawings of the Mirkwood Area...similar to the map with 2nd ed.
I got my copy of Dol Guldur from ICE several years back, and I would have remembered a pull-out map of the interior of Dol Guldur.
www.guildcompanion.com /discus/messages/745/827.html?1037783664   (204 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
You can tap this card during the same site phase the company successfully plays Rescue Prisoners at Dol Guldur (or rescues characters taken prisoner if the rescue site is Dol Guldur); this card never untaps.
This is one mission card that actually can work in a competitive single deck game.
The ideal way of playing it is to have in hand a stolen knowledge card, say Knowledge of the Enemy, plus Pass the Doors of Dol Guldur, a greater item, and Rescue Prisoners.
fan.theonering.net /morgulrats/cotd/cotd526.html   (451 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Near the beginning of the Second age, Celeborn and Galadriel settled in Lorien, where for many years, Celeborn ruled as Lord of the Galadrim.
During the War of the Ring, Celeborn led the army of Lorien that took Dol Guldur.
After the War of the Ring, Celeborn tarried in Middle Earth for a while, but without Galadriel he grew bored, and eventually sailed to be with her.
www.ravensrealm.com /celeborn/about.php   (178 words)

  
 REVIEW: Acid Ice Flows - "Dol Guldur"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He also has a much nicer singing voice, vaguely reminiscent of Rogue from the Cruxshadows.
The music of Dol Guldur is a dark and melodic synth-goth that would likely entice the most hesitant swirly goths to the dancefloor at a club.
While the songs are certainly not going to hit on the dancing needs of the EBM/synth crowd, the music definitely has that dancey edge.
www.legendsmagazine.net /121/acidice.htm   (355 words)

  
 The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - View Profile: Keeper of Dol Guldur
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 LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring - Úlairë Nertëa Messenger of Dol Guldur -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 Dol Guldur Music CDs at Songsearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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 The Metal Crypt - Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In case the title didn't tell you, Summoning are VERY into "The Lord Of The Rings", and pretty much all their lyrics are focused on Tolkien themes, sometimes simply quoting whole passages from the books.
Even with an album this long, a note in the booklet promises that "The forgotten songs of 'Dol Guldur' will be released on the mini-CD 'Nightshade Forests,' Which CD I will review shortly.
If you like other Summoning CDs, you will like this too.
www.metalcrypt.com /pages/reviews.php?revid=1213   (369 words)

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