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.

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.

Translations around the World

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Verbode Swembad
Albanian	Pishina e ndaluar
Arabic	بركة ممنوع
Armenian	արգելվում է լողավազան
Azerbaijani	Qadağan hovuz
Bengali	নিষিদ্ধ পুল
Bosnian	Zabranjenog bazena
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Забранени басейн
Catalan	Prohibida Piscina
Chinese	禁游泳池
Croatian	Zabranjenog bazena
Czech	Zakázané jezírko
Danish	Den Forbudte Dam
Dutch	Verboden Zwembad
Estonian	Keelatud bassein
Finnish	Kielletty lampi
French	Le Lac Interdit
Italian	Stagno Proibito
Japanese	禁じられたプール
Galician	Lago Prohibido
Georgian	აკრძალული აუზი
German	Verbotener Weiher
Greek	Απαγορευμένη πισίνα
Haitian Creole	Entèdi rezèvwa dlo
Hebrew	בריכה אסורה
Hindi	निषिद्ध पूल
Hungarian	Tiltott medence
Icelandic	Forboðna Laug
Indonesian	Kolam Terlarang
Kannada	ನಿಷೇಧಿತ ಪೂಲ್
Korean	금지 된 풀
Latvian	Aizliegta baseins
Lithuanian	Uždraustasis baseinas
Luxembourgish	Verbueden Basseng
Macadonian Cyrillic	Забранетиот базен
Malay	Kolam yang dilarang
Maltese	Projbit pool
Marathi	निषिद्ध पूल
Mongolian Cyrillic	хориотой сан
Nepalese	वर्जित पूल
Norwegian	Den forbudte kulp
Pashto	ممنوعه حوض
Persian	استخر ممنوع
Polish	Zakazanych basen
Portuguese (Brazil)	Lago Proibido
Punjabi	ਪਾਬੰਦੀ ਪੂਲ
Romanian	Heleșteul Neîngânduit
Russian	Запретный бассейн
Serbian	Забрањени Базен (Cyrillic) Zabranjeni Bazen (Latin)
Sinhalese	තහනම් තටාකය
Shona	Rambidzwa Dziva
Sindhi	حرام پول
Slovak	Zakázané bazén
Slovenian	Prepovedano bazen
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Estanque Vedado
Sudanese	Dilarang kolam renang
Swahili	Bwawa Haramu
Swedish	Förbjudna Bassäng
Tamil	தடை செய்யப்பட்ட பூல்
Telugu	ఫర్బిడెన్ పూల్
Thai	สระว่ายน้ำที่ต้องห้าม
Turkish	Yasak Havuz
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Заборонене басейн
Urdu	حرام پول
Vietnamese	Hồ bơi bị Cấm
Welsh	Pwll Gwaharddedig
Yiddish	פאַרבאָטן פּול
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