Ruxendil_Thoorg
Tol Eressea
Feb 2 2013, 11:07pm
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...a vast citadel of his own making, which he proudly named Minas Ereb, a Sindarin name to honor the beauty of Elven craftsmanship that inspired its design. A masterpiece of architectural balance of beauty and defensive function, it was carved intricately out of a tremendous mountain of solid crystal.
In its beginning stages, for security and secrecy purposes it had to be magically relocated from place to place. While half-built, it resided for a brief time on another planet (which, sadly, no longer exists).
During the Third Age, after it was completed, he placed it at a hidden, solitary location in frozen Forodwaith.
Why is he is not there anymore? To keep it secret from the Enemy (its spies are everywhere). And that secret was kept safe throughout his time in Middle-earth.
Once Gandalf took up the mantle of protector of Arda, the Grey Pilgrim, wandering wizard, uniter of the Free Peoples and mastermind of their opposition to the Enemy, he never once returned to that stronghold. And he never looked back.
Instead, he made sure to leave it for another who would take up the mantle of protector of free peoples from dark forces. Someone from the planet where once the citadel lay. Someone who would take up the key to that citadel for his own headquarters. That protector would come to know it by its name's Westron translation:
The Fortress of Solitude.
A bag is like a hole that you can carry with you.
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