#lotr #japanese #hieroglyphs #hieroglyph #kanji 黒 門 kuro mon black gate 火 山 hi yama / kazan The mountain of fire / Orodruin 闇 塔 yami tō / dark tower Barad dur 闇 森 yami mori Mirkwood 日 塔 hi tō Minas Anor / Tower of the Sun 月 塔 tsuki tō Minas Ithil / Tower of the Moon 戒 塔 minas tirith (戒 - to guard against in Chinese) Tower of the Guard 幽鬼 kasoke / yūki - wraith 魔戒 - Demon Guard - chinese - Sauron 精靈 - Fine spirit - elf p.s. I am not Japanese speaker. It's mine literal translation - using the radicals and the basic words and japanese wikipedia