• īsen and ġeard, meaning "enclosure of iron". In The Lord of the Rings, Orthanc, the tower at the centre of Isengard, is the home of the Wizard Saruman...
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  • Orthanc is a standalone DICOM server. It is designed to improve the DICOM flows in hospitals and to support research about the automated analysis of medical...
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  • leaving the title ambiguous or naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. However, a month...
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  • stones of Gondor were in Orthanc, Minas Tirith, Osgiliath, and Minas Ithil. By the time of The Lord of the Rings, the stone of Orthanc was in the hands of...
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  • bear sunlight. He is angered by trees being felled "to feed the fires of Orthanc". He overcomes his anger and then, thinking aloud, begins to make plans...
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  • goes to Saruman at Orthanc. Following the confrontation between Saruman and Gandalf, Gríma mistakenly throws the palantír of Orthanc at the Rohirrim accompanying...
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    imprisoned him in the tower of Orthanc at Isengard, hoping to learn from him the location of the Ring. Whilst on the summit of Orthanc, Gandalf observed that...
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    Mountains, lies the walled circle of Isengard around the ancient tower of Orthanc; at the time of the War of the Ring, it had been taken over by the evil...
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  • ambiguous", but considered naming the two as Orthanc and Barad-dûr, Minas Tirith and Barad-dûr, or Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. However, a month...
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    explosion in a culvert; Aragorn names it "Saruman's devilry" and "the fire of Orthanc"; the critic Tom Shippey calls it "a kind of gunpowder". The defenders...
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