In J.R.R. Tolkien's popular novel The Lord of the Rings, the Brambles of Mordor are large, ash-covered, fictional plants that grow in the black land of Mordor. The brambles are particularly noted for growing in the region of Gorgoroth, where nothing was said to grow other than the twisted, black trees. In the Red Book of Westmarch, the brambles are described as "...harsh, twisted, bitter, struggling for life..." and that "...everywhere great writhing, tangled brambles sprawled...". It is claimed that nowhere else on Middle Earth did brambles grow so big and black. The brambles had foot long thorns, as sharp as the blade of a sword. J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... The One Ring, as envisaged by Gerald Stiehler The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy saga by South African born British author J. R. R. Tolkien, his most popular work and a sequel to his popular fantasy novel The Hobbit. ... Mount Doom and Barad-dûr in Mordor In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth to the East of Anduin, the great river. ... The blackberry is a bramble fruit Bramble refers to thorny plants of the Genus Rubus, in the Rose family (Rosaceae). ... Gorgoroth, also called the Plateau of Gorgoroth, is a place in J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional world of Middle-earth. ... Within the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Red Book of Westmarch (sometimes Red Book of the Periannath) is the book in which the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were written. ... ... Middle-earth is the name used for the inhabitable parts of J.R.R. Tolkiens fictional Arda (ancient Earth) where the (canonical) stories in his legendarium take place. ... Thorn, a sharp structure or growth on plants. ...

Sources

• David Day, A Tolkien Bestiary, p 49, ISBN 0753704595.