The Black Gate was a single gate of iron, which consisted of two vast iron doors under a frowning arch, in a rampart of stone with a battlem...

The Black Gate was a single gate of iron, which consisted of two vast iron doors under a frowning arch, in a rampart of stone with a battlement that stretched between the high cliffs on either side of the mouth of the pass. On two sheer, black-boned and bare hills that were thrust forward from the mouth ...

A massive gateway of dark iron stands under a haunting stone arch, forming part of a fortified rampart with a battlement that runs between two towering cliffs on either side of a mountain pass entrance. Stiff, empty hills of black stone, reminiscent of bared bones, are projected from the mouth of the ...