Talk:Dol Guldur

This is the spelling Wikipedia prefers and redirects to, so this is the name we should use unless there's a convincing reason not to.

The pages are not exactly the same, so I have taken the most recent one and put it here. Maybe an expert can check the latest from WP, and what is below, and improve it.

What WAS here is now copied below for reference, except bits that I have checked are the same.

Robin Patterson 01:22, 18 May 2006 (UTC)



The Council of the Wise

, King of Durin's folk in exile and holder of the last of the Seven Rings of the Dwarves, was imprisoned in the dungeons of Dol Guldur. Five years later, Gandalf again entered the citadel, finding the dying Thráin, who entrusted Gandalf with the map and key to The Lonely Mountain to give to Thorin Oakenshield. At that time, Gandalf finally confirmed that Sauron himself was the master of Dol Guldur..

Gandalf returned to the White Council and urged an attack on Dol Guldur, but was overruled by Saruman, who had begun searching for the One Ring in the area by then. In 2941 Saruman finally agreed to an attack, which occurred at the same time as the Quest for Erebor. This was carefully planned by Gandalf, so that Sauron and Smaug could not assist each other, as otherwise they surely would have done. Sauron fled to Mordor, his plans now ready. Dol Guldur remained staffed by Khamûl, a lieutenant of Barad-dûr.

During the War of the Ring, the forces of Dol Guldur made three assaults upon Lórien, causing grievous damage to the outlying woodlands, but were driven back each time by the power of Nenya which only Sauron himself could have overcome. Dol Guldur was finally destroyed and cleansed by the Elves of Lórien, led by Galadriel, after Sauron's fall. Renamed back to Amon Lanc it became the capital of Celeborn's realm of East Lorien for a while.

FINALLY, see the history of the "Goldor" page at http://lotr.wikia.com/index.php?title=Dol_Guldor&action=history