Forodwaith in The Rings of Power
The frozen far north. Galadriel's company searches an abandoned fortress here and finds Sauron's sign.
About Forodwaith
Who lives here: No one: an empty, frozen waste
Landscape: Ice fields · ruined fortress
Story: In the show an old fortress here holds the first clue that Sauron survived the war against Morgoth.
In Tolkien’s books
The cold northern waste.
The show uses it for Sauron’s abandoned fortress.
Episodes set in Forodwaith
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What happens here
Sauron's mark S1E1
In an abandoned fortress in the far north, Galadriel's company finds Sauron's sign carved in ice, the first proof he may have survived.
In an abandoned fortress in the far north, Galadriel's company finds Sauron's sign carved in ice, the first proof he may have survived.