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{{Infobox LOTR place |
place_name = ''Thangorodrim''|
image_place = |
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place_alias = Mountains of Tyranny |
place_description = Three Volcanic Peaks |
place_built = [[Morgoth]] |
place_realm = [[Iron Mountains]] above [[Angband]] |
place_time = [[First Age]] |
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In the fiction of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], '''Thangorodrim''' ("The Mountains of Oppression" or, literally, "oppression mountain group", pronounced {{IPA-art|θaŋɡɔˈrɔdrim|}}) was a group of three volcanic mountains in the [[Iron Mountains (Middle-earth)|Iron Mountains]] in the north of [[Middle-earth]] during the [[First Age]]. The highest peaks of Middle-earth, they were raised by [[Morgoth]], who delved his fortress of [[Angband (Middle-earth)|Angband]] beneath them, and far back into the Iron Mountains.{{irrel}}
Thangorodrim was said to have been the piles of [[slag]] from Morgoth's furnaces and rubble from the delving of Angband, but at the same time the mountains were solid enough to form sheer precipices; [[Maedhros]] was nailed to a cliff of Thangorodrim, and [[Húrin]] imprisoned on a high terrace. The tops of Thangorodrim perpetually smoked, and sometimes spewed forth [[lava]]. The three peaks of Thangorodrim functioned as furnaces for Morgoth's great smithies deep in Angband.{{irrel}}
For a time the [[Eagle (Middle-earth)|Eagles]] lived on Thangorodrim, but at some time during the First Age they moved to the [[Crissaegrim]] near [[Gondolin]].{{irrel}}
At the base of the south face of the middle peak was the Great Gate of Angband, a deep canyon leading into the mountain, lined with towers and forts. There were also a number of secret gates scattered around the sides of the mountain group, from which Morgoth's hosts could issue forth and surprise their foes.{{irrel}}
Along with [[Beleriand]] and the entire west of Middle-earth, Thangorodrim was destroyed in the [[War of the Valar]] at the end of the First Age when [[Ancalagon the Black]] crashed upon them as he died.{{irrel}}
==See also==
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*[[Siege of Angband]]
==References==
* ''[[The Atlas of Middle-earth]]'' (1991) by [[Karen Wynn Fonstad]]
==External links==
{{Arda Mountains}}
[[Category:Middle-earth mountains]]
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