Forbidden Pool

The article is on the pool just below Henneth Annûn. For the chapter in The Two Towers (novel) see: The Forbidden Pool.

The Forbidden Pool in The Two Towers (film).

"Far below them they saw the white waters pour into a foaming bowl, and then swirl darkly about a deep oval basin in the rocks, until they found their way out again through a narrow gate, and flowed away, fuming and chattering, into calmer and more level reaches." --The Two Towers

The Forbidden Pool was a basin of water created by the waterfall that concealed one of the two entrances into the hiding place of the rangers of Ithilien.

History

The Gondor rangers of Henneth Annûn fiercely protected the secrecy of their refuge. Anyone who came to Henneth Annûn unbidden was to be killed, and this pool was deemed one of the boundaries. Gollum, searching for fish, chanced to find the pool by accident, but was spared death thanks to his master, Frodo Baggins.

Portrayal in Adaptations

Translations around the World

Foreign Language	Translated name
French	Le Lac Interdit
Portuguese (Brazil)	Lago Proibido
Romanian	Heleșteul Neîngânduit
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Estanque Vedado
Italian	Stagno Proibito
Norwegian	Den forbudte kulp

Behind the Scenes

It was revealed in the appendices of the film that the water used for the pool reacted with the acrylic paints on the bottom, so they had to use chemicals to reduce foaming.