The Gate of Upbourn in The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
Upbourn was a hamlet located in Rohan, south of Edoras on the banks of the Snowbourn in the valley of Harrowdale.
Upbourn was one of the small villages that lay in the White Mountains, in the valley of the River Snowbourn known as Harrowdale. This placed it close to Rohan's capital of Edoras, and indeed it was on the road between Edoras and the mountain refuge of Dunharrow. Thus, Théoden and the army of Rohan passed through Upbourn during the War of the Ring, at the beginning of the journey that would lead them east to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.[citation needed]
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In the game The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, a 2003 real-time strategy game based solely off of the books, there are two missions, one for the good campaign, and one for the evil campaign, in which you are fighting over the city of Upbourn. In the evil campaign (since, in chronological order, the evil mission takes place first), you have control of Saleme, an assassin from Harad, who was sent from Mordor to take the city, either by assassinating the captain there named Wulfhelm with Haradrim Slayers, a special unit that, with an upgrade, can be invisible to all unless there are detector units, or by force, by killing all the people in the town after destroying the base outside the city. You can also get Gollum, the Witch-king, and Grishnákh. For the good campaign, you control Gandalf the White and Erkenbrand, the Lord of Helm's Deep, on their way to Helm's Deep, when they arrive at Upbourn, and decide to take back the city by: 1) Purge the Orcs from the city. 2) Kill the Orc Captain guarding the Great Hall. 3) Destroy the Orc base. 4) Destroy the War Posts planted on the barrows south of Upbourn's Gate. 5) Save the horses (optional).
Upbourn in The Lord of the Rings Online
In The Lord of the Rings Online, Upbourn is a small village located just north of Underharrow and ruled by Dúnhere, the Lord of Harrowdale. Unusually for the game, it features neither vendor nor Quest-giver NPCs and aside from a brief visit by the player plays no role in the storyline.
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| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Dutch | Opborn |
| Finnish | Ylävuo |
| French | Hautebourne |
| German | Hochborn |
| Russian | Апбурн |