Upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly. In it there was a single gate of iron, and But you need not go all the way, not beyond the gatesĪ passage in The Hobbit does suggest itself - when Frodo looks upon the Towers of the Teeth, set amid a mass of Orc tunnels - of the time when Bilbo was lost and alone in the Orc mines of the Misty Mountains:Īcross the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord hadīuilt a rampart of stone. "But if you really wish to be free of him again, then you must "He will not go away or go to sleep at your command, Sméagol," saidįrodo. Gollum, for one, is (or claims to be) too frightened to enter Mordor: Master is going to take it to Him, straight to the Black Hand, ifįrodo knows, of course, that if he does go that way then he must go alone. He does not want to lose nice master.Īnd he promised, master made him promise, to save the Precious. But now he says: I purpose to enter Mordor this He says: Sméagol, take me to the Gate - and then good bye! Sméagol can Does it seems credible that Frodo will simply walk up to it, announce his presence, and hand over the Ring to the Orcs? It is clear that the Black Gate is heavily guarded. But at no point does he seem to have any clear idea of how to actually enter Mordor. Orcs will take you all the way.įrodo desires to reach the Mountain of Fire. Gollum sat up again and looked at him under his eyelids. Gollum points out that to enter Mordor is easy (but he laughs as he says it, knowing that Frodo will not willingly surrender the Ring to the Dark Lord): In The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in the second half of The Two Towers Frodo asks Gollum to act as a guide, to bring him to the Black Gate of Mordor.
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