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Date
Seen at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the hours after midnight on 15 March III 3019
Location
The Great Gate of Minas Tirith
Meaning
Ultimately from the Elvish grond, meaning 'club'1

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  • Updated 29 August 2004
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Grond

The battering-ram that breached Minas Tirith’s Great Gate

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The battering ram used to destroy Minas Tirith's Great Gate during the Battle of the Pelennor. It took its name from the ancient weapon of Morgoth: Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld.


Notes

1

'Club' is the ultimate literal meaning of Grond, a name that dates back to the First Age and possibly before. It was originally applied to the great mace of Morgoth, the so-called Hammer of the Underworld, that he used in his defeat of Fingolfin at the gates of Angband. The battering-ram used to break the gates of Minas Tirith in the Third Age took its name from this mace.

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Mountain-trolls, Trolls

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