Most Evil Places of Middle-earth during the time of The War of the Ring in no particular order:

1. Gundabad

Founded by the Dwarves as a sacred place due to it being where Durin the Deathless first was awoken. It was captured and “maintained” by Orcs until Sauron’s defeat.
2. Carn-dûm

Northern fortress of the Witch-King and capital of Angmar during the Angmar Wars. It was populated by Orcs and Evil Men until the combined might of Gondor and the Elves drove its people from the land during the Fall of Angmar

Follow up time: What happened to Gandalf after he smites his demonic counterpart?

Let’s talk about it because the answer will get you hype.

https://twitter.com/middleearthmixr/status/1290728350504423435

“I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

“Sauron was able to destroy Numenor by subverting morality and replacing truth with lies. The few voices willing to call it out were shouted down or systematically neutralized.”

America faces a similar threat.

My article on Tolkien for @theblaze

theblaze.com/op-ed/commenta… “Númenor was the greatest nation of men to exist in Tolkien’s legendarium, one whose material success, technological prowess, and military might were surpassed by no other nation.

Numenor had everything: wealth, comfort, pleasure, disease-free living, longevity, and wisdom.”

🚨NEW LOTR THREAD🚨:

The Palantir plays a major role in the books and Peter Jackson’s movies, but the concept of this stone is hardly explained or even understood in the cinematic portrayal—I think that’s a topic that’s worth a thread so let’s jump in: The “Palantir or Palantiri” also known as the Seeing Stones were originally created in the Undying Lands by Feanor (or so we presume because of Gandalf’s quote in Two Towers) and he must have left them behind before “The Flight of the Noldor” in ‘The Silmarillion’