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Dol Guldur, “Hill of Sorcery”

Then the name of the forest was changed and Mirkwood it was called, for the nightshade lay deep there, and few dared to pass through. It was the shadow of Sauron and the sign of his return. For coming out of the wastes of the East he took up his abode in the south of the forest, and slowly he grew and took shape there again; in a dark hill he made his dwelling and wrought there his sorcery, and all folk feared the Sorcerer of Dol Guldur, and yet they knew not at first how great was their peril. (The Silmarillion)