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MINAS MORGUL
“Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of it now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. In the walls and tower windows showed, like countless black holes looking inward into emptiness; but the topmost course of the tower revolved slowly, first one way and then another, a huge ghostly head leering into the night.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Minas Morgul, meaning Tower of Black Sorcery in Sindarin, was not always a bastion of evil. In a former age it was the beautiful Minas Ithil, Tower of the Rising Moon, erected by the exiled Númenoreans and whose “white marble walls, buildings, and tower were designed to catch and reflect the moonlight, and shone with a soft silver luminescence.” Long occupation, however, by the Nazgûl and the orcs infected the tower, its city, and indeed the entire valley with a palpable malevolence.
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*Much of the preceding information was condensed from the Wikipedia page for Minas Morgul.