![]() The valley became known as Nan Curunír, the "Wizard's Vale". At first he resided there as Warden of the Tower on behalf of Gondor. Beren gladly gave him the keys to Orthanc. A solution presented itself to the Steward of Gondor, Beren, as the Wizard Saruman suddenly reappeared from the East, offering to guard Isengard. Gondor did not wish to relinquish its claim to the tower, but lacked the strength to garrison it. The Rohirrim fought off the invaders and blockaded Isengard, eventually taking it. Using Isengard as their base, the Dunlendings continually raided Rohan until during the rule of Helm Hammerhand, the Dunlending lord Freca and his son Wulf nearly managed to destroy the Rohirrim. The line of hereditary Captains died out, and during the rule of Rohan's King Déor, Isengard became openly hostile to the Rohirrim. The tower of Orthanc however remained locked and inaccessible to the Dunlendings, as the Steward of Gondor alone held the keys in Minas Tirith. The small guard intermarried much with the Dunlendings, until the fortress became Dunlending in all but name. When Cirion, Steward of Gondor, gave Calenardhon to the Éothéod, becoming the land of Rohan, Isengard was the sole fortress retained by Gondor north of the Ered Nimrais. Contact with Minas Tirith gradually decreased and eventually ceased altogether. Isengard remained guarded by a small company, led by a hereditary captain. In the Third Age the land of Calenardhon became depopulated, and the last warden of Orthanc was recalled to Minas Tirith. It housed one of the palantírs of the South Kingdom, and was guarded by a warden. Its only entrance was at the top of a high stair, and above that was a small window and balcony. Orthanc rose to more than 500 feet (150 metres) above the plain of Isengard, and ended in four sharp peaks. Orthanc was built towards the end of the Second Age by men of Gondor from four many-sided columns of rock joined by an unknown process and then hardened. For most of its history, Isengard was a green and pleasant place, with many fruiting trees. The rest of its perimeter consisted of a large wall, the Ring of Isengard, breached only by the inflow of the river at the north-east through a portcullis, and the gate of Isengard at the south, at both shores of the river. Methedras stood behind Isengard, forming its northern wall. The river Isen or Angren began on Methedras, the southernmost peak of the Misty Mountains. It lay just outside the north-western corner of Rohan, guarding the Fords of Isen from enemy incursions into Calenardhon together with the fortress of Aglarond to its south. The Númenóreans in exile built Isengard in the Second Age as a walled circular enclosure, with the tower of Orthanc at its centre. Others have compared it to Vichy France, and its proposed governor on behalf of Mordor, the Mouth of Sauron, to a traitorous Quisling.įictional history The natural landscape of Glenorchy, New Zealand represented the setting of Isengard in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Isengard has been described by Tolkien scholars as an industrial hell, and as an illustration of the homogeneity of evil, in contrast to the evident diversity of the free societies of Middle-earth, including those of the Elves, Dwarves, and Gondor. Saruman, isolated in the tower, was visited by some members of the Fellowship of the Ring his staff was broken by the Wizard Gandalf. However, the Ents were unable to harm the tower of Orthanc. The Orcs cut down many trees in the forest of the Ents, who retaliated by destroying Isengard while the army of Orcs was away attacking Rohan at Helm's Deep. Saruman had bred Orcs in Isengard, in imitation of Sauron's forces, to be ready for war with Rohan. ![]() He had been ensnared by the Dark Lord Sauron through the tower's palantír, a far-seeing crystal ball able to communicate with others like it. In The Lord of the Rings, Orthanc, a tower at the centre of Isengard, is the home of the Wizard Saruman. ![]() ![]() (In fact it is an Old English word meaning "iron enclosure".) In the fantasy world, the name of the fortress is described as a translation of Angrenost, a word in the elvish language Sindarin, which Tolkien invented. Tolkien's fantasy writings, Isengard ( / ˈ aɪ z ən ɡ ɑːr d/) is a large fortress in Nan Curunír, the Wizard's Vale, in the western part of Middle-earth. The Tower of Orthanc, the Ring of Isengard, the pillar of the White Hand, the Isen The Orcs of Isengard bore upon their shields the symbol of the White Hand on a black field.
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