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| | The Barrow-Downs |
 | | In the north, the Ered Lithui, the Mountains of Ash, were Mordor's natural border to the plains of the Brown Lands, and in the west and south it was protected by the Ephel Dúath, mountains of Shadow. |
 | | To its west lay the pass of Minas Morgul and Cirith Ungol in the Ephel Dúath, and in the middle of the plateau rose the fiery Orodruin, Mount Doom, where Sauron forged the One Ring. |
 | | His dark tower itself, Barad-Dûr, was located just east of Mount Doom, on an arm of the Ered Lithui extending southward into Mordor. |
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