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Location
The northern borders of Mordor
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Barad-dûr, Sauron's Dark Tower, stood on a spur of these mountains, and the tower of Carchost lay at their western end
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Two of the rivers feeding Lake Núrnen rose in the eastern Ered Lithui
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Pronunciation
e'red li'thui ('th' as in English 'myth', and 'ui' as in 'ruin', pronounced as a single syllable)
Meaning
'Mountains of ash'
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Ered LithuiThe Ashen Mountains north of Mordor![]() ![]() Called the Ash Mountains, the northern fence of the land of Mordor, on an outcrop of which stood the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr. See also...Ash Mountains, Ashen Mountains, Black Gates, Carach Angren, Cirith Gorgor, Haunted Pass, Lithlad, Mordor, Plateau of Gorgoroth, Sea of Núrnen, Towers of the Teeth, Udûn, Watch-towers of the Morannon Indexes: About this entry:
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