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| | The Barrow-Downs |
 | | Mordor, Sindarin for 'fl land', had been a dreary place and the realm of the Dark Lord Sauron for millenia already when it was eventually conquered and freed in the War of the Ring. |
 | | 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. |
 | | The lengthening shadow of Mordor caused Gondor to desert the land of Ithilien, at the foot of the Ephel Dúath, in 2901. |
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