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"Far below them they saw the white waters pour into a foaming bowl, and then swirl darkly about a deep oval basin in the rocks, until they found their way out again through a narrow gate, and flowed away, fuming and chattering, into calmer and more level reaches."
The Two Towers, Ch. VI: "The Forbidden Pool"
Forbiddenpool

The Forbidden Pool as it appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Forbidden Pool was a basin of water created by the waterfall that concealed one of the two entrances into Henneth Annûn, the hiding place of the Rangers of Ithilien.[1]

History[]

The Rangers fiercely protected the secrecy of their refuge. Anyone who came to the place unbidden was to be killed, and this pool was deemed one of the boundaries. Gollum, searching for fish, chanced to find the pool by accident, but was spared death thanks to his master, Frodo Baggins.[2]

Portrayal in adaptations[]

The pool appears in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in much the same extent as it does in J.R.R. Tolkien's works.

It was revealed in the appendices of the film that the water used for the pool reacted with the acrylic paints on the bottom, forcing the filmmakers to use chemicals to reduce foaming.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Afrikaans Verbode Swembad
Albanian Pishina e ndaluar
Arabic الحوض الممنوع
Armenian արգելվում է լողավազան
Azerbaijani Qadağan hovuz
Bengali নিষিদ্ধ পুল
Bosnian Zabranjenog bazena
Bulgarian Cyrillic Забранени басейн
Cambodian អាងហាមឃាត់
Catalan Prohibida Piscina
Chinese 禁游泳池
Croatian Zabranjenog bazena
Czech Zakázané jezírko
Danish Den Forbudte Dam
Dari استخر ممنوع
Dutch Verboden Zwembad
Estonian Keelatud bassein
Faroese Forboðin svimjihøll
Finnish Kielletty lampi
French Le Lac Interdit
Hebrew ה בריכה האסורה
Italian Stagno Proibito
Japanese 禁じられたプール
Galician Lago Prohibido
Georgian აკრძალული აუზი
German Verbotener Weiher
Greek Απαγορευμένη πισίνα
Gujarati પ્રતિબંધિત પૂલ
Haitian Creole Entèdi rezèvwa dlo
Hebrew בריכה אסורה
Hindi निषिद्ध पूल
Hungarian Tiltott medence
Icelandic Forboðna Laug
Indonesian Kolam Terlarang
Kannada ನಿಷೇಧಿತ ಪೂಲ್
Konkani निषिद्ध कुंड
Korean 금지 된 연못
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Тыюу салынган көл
Latvian Aizliegta baseins
Lithuanian Uždraustasis baseinas
Luxembourgish Verbueden Basseng
Macadonian Cyrillic Забранетиот базен
Malayalam വിലക്കപ്പെട്ട കുളം
Malaysian Kolam yang dilarang
Maltese Projbit pool
Marathi निषिद्ध पूल
Mongolian Cyrillic хориотой сан
Nepalese वर्जित पूल
Norwegian Den forbudte kulp
Pashto ممنوعه حوض
Persian استخر ممنوع
Polish Zakazanych basen
Portuguese Lago Proibido (Brazil)
Punjabi ਵਰਜਿਤ ਪੂਲ
Romanian Heleșteul Neîngânduit
Russian Запретное Озеро
Sanskrit निषिद्ध कुण्डः
Sardinian Piscina Proibida
Serbian Забрањени Базен (Cyrillic) Zabranjeni Bazen (Latin)
Sicilian Piscina Pruibita
Sinhalese තහනම් තටාකය
Shona Rambidzwa Dziva
Sindhi حرام پول
Slovak Zakázané bazén
Slovenian Prepovedano bazen
Somali Barkadda xaaraanta ah
Spanish (Spain and Latin America) Estanque Vedado
Sundanese Dilarang kolam renang
Swahili Bwawa Haramu
Swedish Förbjudna Bassäng
Tamil தடை செய்யப்பட்ட பூல்
Telugu నిషేధించబడిన కొలను
Thai สระว่ายน้ำที่ต้องห้าม
Turkish Yasak Havuz
Turkmen Gadagan Howuz
Ukrainian Cyrillic Заборонене басейн
Urdu حرام پول
Uzbek Тақиқланган бассейн (Cyrillic) Taqiqlangan basseyn (Latin)
Vietnamese Hồ bơi bị Cấm
Welsh Pwll Gwaharddedig
Yiddish פאַרבאָטן פּול


Lakes of Arda

Bywater Pool | Forbidden Pool | Gollum's water | Great Lake | Kheled-zâram (Mirrormere) | Lake Evendim | Lake Helevorn | Lake Mithrim | Linaewen | Long Lake | Lórellin | Nen Hithoel | Nísinen | Tarn Aeluin



References[]

  1. The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings, "Henneth Annûn"
  2. The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, Ch. VI: "The Forbidden Pool"
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