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[Vortigern]

Mordor? After the War of the Ring, Mordor gets levelled when Sauron's tower collapses, correct? What then? You've got a vast plain, plenty of empty real estate, just waiting to be filled with hobbit holiday holes, dwarven-made waterslides and Gondor.2. But what really happened there? Anyone got any clue what went on behind the Black Gate with Sauron out of the picture?

[Unknown]

I would suppose either Gondor inhabited it (because they have the black gate, Minas *Ithil and Cirith Ungol) or no one ever went there again

Edited by Unknown, 21 February 2011 - 04:34 PM.

[mike_]

IIRC the millions of slaves formerly being used to feed Sauron's war-machine from the aptly-named slave-fields of Nurn were given what was left of Mordor as their own, to settle and live in underneath the protection of the Dunedain of Gondor.

You may want to check with someone more knowledgeable than I (Namo, there's your cue) to be sure.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

I think the slaves only got the lands around Nurnen it's self.
Most of Mordor would have mostly become wastelands for a long time afterwards.
It would take a very long time to overcome the wreckage left by Mordor.

[Námo]

from The Return of the King, The Steward and the King:

In the days that followed his crowning the King sat on his throne in the Hall of the Kings and pronounced his judgements. And embassies came from many lands and peoples, from the East and the South, and from the borders of Mirkwood, and from Dunland in the West. And the King pardoned the Easterlings that had given themselves up, and sent them away free, and he made peace with the peoples of Harad; and the slaves of Mordor he released and gave to them all the lands about Lake Núrnen to be their own. And there were brought before him many to receive his praise and reward for their valour ...

However, the peace of the days of the Great King Elessar didn't last forever; according to Tolkien a new shadow, a new 'Dark Lord', arose in the second century of the 4th Age.

Edited by Námo, 22 February 2011 - 09:23 AM.

[{IP}Solstice]

I thought that the sea of nurn filled everything up and it became vast.

[darkestoftheeast]

i really wish christopher tolkien would finish and publish new shadow and revise it and all...even though his father threw out the idea itd still be cool to keep the series ever more alive. and ik what the book says but i mean i bet it would be hard to peace with harad..they are money driven and full of strong pride and thier land vast. and to be honest all those orcs that fled, all they need is one person to unite them under one banner and they would serve him.