![]() ![]() ![]() The peaks were made of ash and slag as a result of the resurgence of the fortress and this is why the renovated Angband extended far greater underground than before. He built the volcanic peaks of Thangorodrim over Angband’s gates. He was renamed Morgoth by the enemies, returned to Middle Earth, and chose the ruined fortress as his capital. Melkor was released after three ages, the Two Trees of Valinor were destroyed and the Silmarils were stolen. Slowly, the Orcs increased in number in these ruins and got ready to threaten the Dwarves and Thingol’s rule, entering into Beleriand. Sauron was among them and the Balrogs also hid with him in the deepest vaults of Angband. Angband was destroyed to a great extent and remained ruined for ages though some of the hidden chambers were intact under the ruins.Ī number of Melkor’s servants went into hibernation in these ruined chambers. However, when the War of Powers began, the attack of the Valar got over Angband easily and Melkor was forced to escape to the stronghold of Utumno. ![]() Angband was constructed at the coast of the Great Sea as a tool of defense against an attack on the Melkor from the Valar. It was under the supervision of Sauron, the head of the servants. Originally, Angband was built by Melkor during the Years of the Trees to protect its northern citadel at Utumno from the attack from Valar. This is the natural domain of the flightless wyrms tunnels, where they can freely belch fire at any enemy that dares to assail them, while protected far beneath the earth.ĭeeper still, closer than all other structures, and great in size, with a high, dark roof supported by pillars of blackened obsidian and hellish iron, the sulphorous and hellish throne room of Morgoth, attended by servants high in the esteem of the Dark Lord, such as balrogs and his lieutenant, Sauron, as well as countless other creatures such as warewolve that feast on leavings of their 'betters' and the corpses of those foolish enough to go there.Angband - Map. Low rooves of blackened iron coming to a point, from which, through various chimmeneys and holes, the black smokes and hellish fumes of the work beneath issue.Īs well as these, dark watchtowers should dot the mountains around, and walls beyond (though it's suggested that Angband's main entrance isn't near to the fortress itself, but rather, linked by a tunnel) still composed of the same black iron, soild and with a thickness of many men, high and featureless, save for butresses of razor edges to dissuade attackers and support the structures, and high, close battlements.īetween pits and even within the mountains, endless tunnels, left from where viens of ores were once to be found, or just gouged for expansion, and great caverns where dragons sleep on beds of wealth, both plunder and tribute. The upper structures I imagine to be low and round, squat structures like the very bases of towers, laden with arrow slits and some portals - occasionally large enough for balrogs to issue from - in among them. I imagine them both to be essentially like open cast mines of vast proportions, reinforced with iron, and with spars of various types all throughout them, with mezzannines and more solid floors somewhat haphazadly running through them, to accomodate creatures great and small, some areas large enough, in later ages, for drakes to learn to fly, and bridges of wrought iron linking such structures. The main image used is of pits and delvings. ![]()
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