Mount Gundabad

Mount Gundabad was a Northern Orc stronghold situated at the northern end of the Misty Mountains, located to the east of the ancient realm of Angmar.
== History ==
Dwarves of Durin's Folk, including Durin the Deathless, oldest of the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves, awoke at Mount Gundabad shortly after the Awakening of the Elves in the Years of the Trees. Mount Gundabad then became a sacred place to the Dwarves.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers, III: Durin's Folk
In the middle of the Second Age, however, Orcs (ruled over by the servants of Sauron) invaded the mountains and took Gundabad. The site would not be cleansed until very late in the Second Age, possibly around or after the fall of Sauron and the loss of the One Ring.The History of Middle-earth, Part XII: The Peoples of Middle-earth]], chapter X: "Of Dwarves and Men"
In the Third Age, the Northern Orcs again claimed it, which was one of the reasons for the Dwarves special hatred of them. After the fall of Angmar, Gundabad remained an Orc-hold, until it was cleansed of Orcs during the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. However, hordes of Orcs seem to have trickled back to this hotly contested strong point and fortified it anew before the events of The Hobbit, menacing Wilderland for yet another time. It was from here the great Northern Orcs present at the Battle of Five Armies attacked and marched. Their leader, Bolg son of Azog, was the supreme commander of the Orcs from Gundabad, and presumably the northern Misty Mountains.The Hobbit, chapter XVII: "The Clouds Burst"The Hobbit, chapter XVIII: "The Return Journey"
== In adaptations ==
=== The Hobbit film trilogy ===
In The Hobbit film trilogy, Gundabad plays a key role in the series storyline. It is portrayed as a tall fortress tower in the middle of a remote mountain range. Hidden cauldrons of fire light up the tower with a dim red glow. The tower is surrounded by sharp angled cliffs.
The fortress is home to Bolg and his father Azog the Defiler, as well as an army of Gundabad Orcs. As eventually revealed in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Gundabad is a stronghold with connections to the Angmar kingdom that was destroyed long ago. In the aftermath, Gundabad Orcs like Azog began to take residence in Moria before forging an alliance with Sauron, in his Necromancer guise at Dol Guldur, in an attempt to revive Angmar through Smaug taking the Lonely Mountain. But when Thorin II reclaims the Lonely Mountain, Sauron is forced to send the Orc army he amassed to the Lonely Mountain. On route at the start of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Azog instructs his son Bolg to bring out an additional Orc army from Gundabad itself.
Legolas and Tauriel follow Bolg north to Gundabad. Once they arrive at the remote fortress they stop, and wait on a ridgeline above the "Red Tower". During their wait Legolas reveals that his mother died at Gundabad during the war.
For a while the area seems deserted, but without warning, huge bats start to swarm the tower. Legolas realizes that these bats are bred for war. Suddenly, Bolg appears on a precipice and bellows out a signal. A huge army of Orcs swarm out and start to march south, towards the Lonely Mountain.
Tauriel and Legolas witness the army of Gundabad Orcs emerging from the mountain, and they rush to warn the armies at Dale. 
=== Video games ===
*The video game The Lord of the Rings: War in the North was the first to depict Mount Gundabad in any form.
*Games Workshop's miniature of Bolg gives his full title as "Castellan of Mount Gundabad."
*In The Lord of the Rings Online, Gundabad features as a significant location.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Berg Gundabad
Albanian 	Mali Gundabad
Amharic 	ጎንዳባድ ተራራ
Arabic 	جبل جونداباد
Armenian 	Գունդաբադ լեռ
Assamese 	মাউণ্ট গুণ্ডাবাদ
Asturian 	Monte Gundabad
Azerbaijani 	Gundabad dağı
Basque 	Gundabad mendia
Belarusian Cyrillic 	Гара Гундабад
Bengali 	গুন্দাবাদ পর্বত
Bhojpuri 	माउंट गुंडाबाद
Bosnian 	Brdo Gundabad
Breton 	Menez Gundabad
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Планина Гундабад
Catalan 	Mont Gundabad
Chinese (Hong Kong) 	剛達巴山脈
Croatian 	Brdo Gundabad
Corsican 	Muntagna Gundabad
Czech 	Hora Gundabad
Danish 	Gundabad Bjerget
Dutch 	Gundabadberg
Esperanto 	Monto Gundabad
Estonian 	Gundabadi mägi
Faroese 	Gundabadfjall
Filipino 	Bundok Gundabad
Finnish 	Gundabadin vuori
French 	Mont Gundabad
Galician 	Monte Gundabad
Georgian 	გუნდაბადის პიკი
German 	Berg Gundabad
Greek 	Όρος Γκούνταμπαντ
Gujarati 	માઉન્ટ ગુંદાબાદ
Hawaiian 	Mauna Gundabad
Hebrew 	ג'בל גונדאבאד
Haitian Creole 	Mòn Gundabad
Hindi 	गुंडबड पर्वत
Hungarian 	Gundabad-hegy
Icelandic 	Gundabadfjall
Indonesian 	Gunung Gundabad
Irish Gaelic 	Sliabh Gundabad
Italian 	Monte Gundabad
Japanese 	グンダバード山
Javanese 	Gunung Gundabad
Kannada 	ಗುಂದಬಾದ್ ಪರ್ವತ
Kazakh 	Тауына Гұндабад (Cyrillic) Tawına Gundabad (Latin)
Konkani 	माउंट गुंडाबाद
Korean 	군다바드 산
Kurdish 	ماونت گوندە ئاباد (Sorani) Çiyayê Gundabad (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Тоо Гундабад
Laotian 	ພູກູນດາບາດ
Latin 	Mons Gundabad
Latvian 	Gundabad smaile
Lithuanian 	Gundabad viršukalnė
Luxembourgish 	Montéierung Gundabad
Macedonian Cyrillic 	Гундабад Гора
Maithili 	गुंडाबाद पर्वत
Malayalam 	ഗുണ്ടാബാദ് പർവ്വതം
Malaysian 	Gunung Gundabad
Manx 	Beinn Gundabad
Maori 	Maunga Gundabad
Marathi 	गुंडाबाद पर्वत
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Монт Гундабад
Nepalese 	गुन्डाबाद पर्वत
Norwegian 	Gundabadfjellet
Occitan 	Mont Gundabad
Old English 	Gundabad Beorg
Pashto 	غر عونداباد
Persian 	کوه گونداباد
Polish 	Góra Gundabad
Portuguese 	Monte Gundabad (Brazil)
Punjabi 	ਪਹਾੜ ਗੁਨ੍ਦਬਦ
Romanian 	Muntele Gundabad
Romansh 	Muntogna Gundabad
Russian 	гора Гундабад
Samoan 	Mauga Gundabad
Sanskrit 	गुंडबड पर्वत
Sardinian 	Monte Gundabad
Scottish Gaelic 	Beinn Gundabad
Serbian 	Гундабад гора (Cyrillic) Gundabad gora (Latin)
Sicilian 	Munti Gundabad
Sindhi 	مائونٽ گند آباد
Sinhalese 	ගුන්ඩාබාද් කන්ද
Slovak 	Hora Gundabad
Slovenian 	Gora Gundabad
Somali 	Buurta Gundabad
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Monte Gundabad
Sundanese 	Gunung Gundabad
Swahili 	Mlima Gundabad
Swedish 	Gundabadberget
Tagalog 	Bundok ng Gundabad
Tajik Cyrillic 	Маунт Гундабад
Tamil 	குண்டாபாத் மலை
Telugu 	గుండాబాద్ పర్వతం
Turkish 	Gundabad Dağı
Turkmen 	Gundabad Dagy
Urdu 	کوہ گوندآباڈ
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Гора Ґундабад
Uzbek 	Гундабад чўққиси (Cyrillic) Gundabad choʻqqisi (Latin)
Venetian 	Monte Gundabad
Vietnamese 	Núi Gundabad
Walloon 	Mont Gundabad
Welsh 	Mynydd Gundabad
Xhosa 	Entabeni Gundabad
Yiddish 	מעמד הר גונדאַבאַד
Yoruba 	Òkè Gundabad
Zazaki 	Gundabad Koyê
Zulu 	Entabeni Gundabad
== References ==
Category:Mountains
Category:Fortresses
Category:Dwarven kingdoms
Category:Orc settlements
Category:Misty Mountains 
Category:Angmar
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