The trailer music company Two Steps From Hell made a song called "Caradhras" on one of their public albums, Archangel.Gandalf himself responds to Gimli's questioning of Sauron's reach, to which Gandalf says, "It has grown long." This differs from the book, in which it is suggested that an ancient evil born from the mountain itself was sending the foul weather to hinder the group's passage or that it could have been the work of Sauron, from afar. In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film, the Fellowship is trying to cross Caradhras in a blizzard, Saruman utters enchantments in Quenya from the top of Orthanc in Isengard to prevent them from crossing the mountain by causing massive boulders to plummet down from the mountain and lightning to strike the mountain, sending a mass of snow cascading down and burying the Fellowship. The Fellowship going through the high snow banks
Portrayal in adaptations Lord of the Rings film trilogy
In Khuzdul, it is known as Barazinbar, from baraz ("red") and -inbar ("horn"). The name Caradhras means "Red horn", from the Sindarin words carad ("red") and ras ("horn"). The following year, after the conclusion of the War of the Ring, Celeborn and Galadriel crossed over the pass on their return from the Crowning of King Elessar. Gandalf however suspected that Sauron's power was at work. Gimli attributed this to Caradhras itself, calling upon a malevolent force to stop them out of an apparent dislike of Dwarves and Elves. ĭuring the Quest of the Ring, the Fellowship attempted to cross the Redhorn Pass, lying beneath the slopes of Caradhras, but were met with harsh weather and falling rocks, prompting them to turn back. In TA 2509, Celebrían, the wife of Elrond, passed through Redhorn Pass and was captured by Orcs. Later in the Third Age the pass became infested with Orcs from Moria and was increasingly unsafe to use. Much later in the Third Age, the Redhorn Pass was used by Stoors migrating from the Vales of Anduin to Eriador around TA 1150.Īfter the Dwarves were forced to flee Khazad-dûm, this pass was predominantly used by Elves travelling between Lothlórien and Eriador. It was known to be narrow and treacherous.ĭuring the Great Journey the Nandor Elves were so daunted by the Misty Mountains that they turned back. The pass over Caradhras, known as the Redhorn Pass, Redhorn Gate and Dimrill Stair, was the most southerly of the passes over the Misty Mountains. Ĭaradhras was called the Cruel by the Dwarves and had long had a bad reputation. But mining ever deeper into the roots of the mountain in search of Mithril, the Dwarf miners unwittingly awakened the Balrog of Moria. It was also the only site in Middle-earth where Mithril could be mined. Caradhras was one of the Mountains of Moria, the three mountains under which the great Dwarf city of Khazad-dûm was built.