Grond

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Grond Hammer of the underworld

"Bring up the wolf's head."

Grond The Hammer of the Underworld, was forged in Mordor over the course of hundreds of years. It was a huge battering ram in the shape of a wolf which the army of orcs used to smash the gates of Minas Tirith. In its great maw fire burned and several trolls were needed to move it into position.

In the First Age, Grond was the great warhammer of Morgoth Bauglír, the first Dark Lord, who wielded it when he fought with Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor. With every blow from the hammer that struck the ground, a crater was formed. Morgoth managed to kill the High King, but not without being wounded many times himself, for he had poured much of his power into Arda, and so was less powerful than he once was and so took longer to kill Fingolfin than he would have.

During the War of the Ring in the Third Age, the name was used for a great battering ram. A hundred feet long with a head shaped like a snarling wolf, it was used in the siege of Minas Tirith. Aided by spells laid on it by the Witch-king of Angmar, and the spells cast upon it during its forging in Mordor, Grond destroyed the formidable gate of Minas Tirith in just four blows.

In Peter Jackson's The Return of the King, Grond has fire spewing from its gaping jaws and is pulled by four huge rhinoceros-like creatures (such Great Beasts were briefly mentioned as pulling it in the book). The wolf design is extended, with the whole battering ram carved to resemble a great wolf. Gothmog refers to it as both "Grond" and "the wolf's head" in the film.

It was a battering ram of mighty proportions -- said to be sixty feet high and fully 150 feet long.

Morgoth weilding Grond in his battle with Fingolfin.

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