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Dead Marshes
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Gondor, later disputed |
| Permanent Resident(s) |
Spirits of dead |
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- "Dreary and wearisome. Cold, clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long forgotten summers."
- —Passage of the Marshes, The Two Towers
Added by DwarvesThe Dead Marshes is the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Dagorlad between the Last Alliance and the forces of Mordor, where many of the fallen were laid to rest. Over time, the battlefield became marshes, which swallowed up the dead, though their bodies could still be seen floating in the water.
The Dead Marshes were located north-west of the Morannon, and southeast of the Emyn Muil. Aragorn once captured Gollum here, on 1 February, 3017 and took him to Mirkwood. Also, the Easterling tribe of the Wainriders was driven into the marshes after the Battle of the Camp in TA 1944.
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Journey across the Dead Marshes
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Added by Middle-Earth The Dead Marshes in the Films
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In the Peter Jackson, film version of The Two Towers, the Dead Marshes 
Added by Middle-Earth Behind the Scenes
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- In the Journeys of Frodo atlas by Barbara Strachey, the Dead Marshes are depicted as an eastward extension of the swamps of Nindalf (Wetwang), although on the Lord of the Rings map they appear separate.
- In The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien speculated that the description of the Dead Marshes may have been based on his personal experience in World War I, specifically, the Battle of the Somme, in which he saw dead men who were laying in the mud where they were killed.
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