- "Far below them they saw the white waters pour into a foaming bowl, and then swirl darkly about a deep oval basin in the rocks, until they found their way out again through a narrow gate, and flowed away, fuming and chattering, into calmer and more level reaches."
- —The Two Towers, Ch. VI: "The Forbidden Pool"
The Forbidden Pool as it appears in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Forbidden Pool was a basin of water created by the waterfall that concealed one of the two entrances into Henneth Annûn, the hiding place of the Rangers of Ithilien.[1]
History[]
The Rangers fiercely protected the secrecy of their refuge. Anyone who came to the place unbidden was to be killed, and this pool was deemed one of the boundaries. Gollum, searching for fish, chanced to find the pool by accident, but was spared death thanks to his master, Frodo Baggins.[2]
In adaptations[]
The pool appears in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in much the same extent as it does in J.R.R. Tolkien's works.
It was revealed in the appendices of the film that the water used for the pool reacted with the acrylic paints on the bottom, forcing the filmmakers to use chemicals to reduce foaming.
Translations[]
| Foreign Language | Translated name |
| Afrikaans | Verbode Swembad |
| Albanian | Pishina e ndaluar |
| Arabic | الحوض الممنوع |
| Armenian | արգելվում է լողավազան |
| Azerbaijani | Qadağan hovuz |
| Bengali | নিষিদ্ধ পুল |
| Bosnian | Zabranjenog bazena |
| Bulgarian Cyrillic | Забранени басейн |
| Cambodian | អាងហាមឃាត់ |
| Catalan | Prohibida Piscina |
| Chinese | 禁游泳池 |
| Croatian | Zabranjenog bazena |
| Czech | Zakázané jezírko |
| Danish | Den Forbudte Dam |
| Dari | استخر ممنوع |
| Dutch | Verboden Zwembad |
| Estonian | Keelatud bassein |
| Faroese | Forboðin svimjihøll |
| Finnish | Kielletty lampi |
| French | Le Lac Interdit |
| Hebrew | ה בריכה האסורה |
| Italian | Stagno Proibito |
| Japanese | 禁じられたプール |
| Galician | Lago Prohibido |
| Georgian | აკრძალული აუზი |
| German | Verbotener Weiher |
| Greek | Απαγορευμένη πισίνα |
| Gujarati | પ્રતિબંધિત પૂલ |
| Haitian Creole | Entèdi rezèvwa dlo |
| Hebrew | בריכה אסורה |
| Hindi | निषिद्ध पूल |
| Hungarian | Tiltott medence |
| Icelandic | Forboðna Laug |
| Indonesian | Kolam Terlarang |
| Kannada | ನಿಷೇಧಿತ ಪೂಲ್ |
| Konkani | निषिद्ध कुंड |
| Korean | 금지 된 연못 |
| Kyrgyz Cyrillic | Тыюу салынган көл |
| Latvian | Aizliegta baseins |
| Lithuanian | Uždraustasis baseinas |
| Luxembourgish | Verbueden Basseng |
| Macadonian Cyrillic | Забранетиот базен |
| Malayalam | വിലക്കപ്പെട്ട കുളം |
| Malaysian | Kolam yang dilarang |
| Maltese | Projbit pool |
| Marathi | निषिद्ध पूल |
| Mongolian Cyrillic | хориотой сан |
| Nepalese | वर्जित पूल |
| Norwegian | Den forbudte kulp |
| Pashto | ممنوعه حوض |
| Persian | استخر ممنوع |
| Polish | Zakazanych basen |
| Portuguese | Lago Proibido (Brazil) |
| Punjabi | ਵਰਜਿਤ ਪੂਲ |
| Romanian | Heleșteul Neîngânduit |
| Russian | Запретное Озеро |
| Sanskrit | निषिद्ध कुण्डः |
| Sardinian | Piscina Proibida |
| Serbian | Забрањени Базен (Cyrillic) Zabranjeni Bazen (Latin) |
| Sicilian | Piscina Pruibita |
| Sinhalese | තහනම් තටාකය |
| Shona | Rambidzwa Dziva |
| Sindhi | حرام پول |
| Slovak | Zakázané bazén |
| Slovenian | Prepovedano bazen |
| Somali | Barkadda xaaraanta ah |
| Spanish (Spain and Latin America) | Estanque Vedado |
| Sundanese | Dilarang kolam renang |
| Swahili | Bwawa Haramu |
| Swedish | Förbjudna Bassäng |
| Tamil | தடை செய்யப்பட்ட பூல் |
| Telugu | నిషేధించబడిన కొలను |
| Thai | สระว่ายน้ำที่ต้องห้าม |
| Turkish | Yasak Havuz |
| Turkmen | Gadagan Howuz |
| Ukrainian Cyrillic | Заборонене басейн |
| Urdu | حرام پول |
| Uzbek | Тақиқланган бассейн (Cyrillic) Taqiqlangan basseyn (Latin) |
| Vietnamese | Hồ bơi bị Cấm |
| Welsh | Pwll Gwaharddedig |
| Yiddish | פאַרבאָטן פּול |
Lakes of Arda
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Bywater Pool | Forbidden Pool | Gollum's water | Great Lake | Kheled-zâram (Mirrormere) | Lake Evendim | Lake Helevorn | Lake Mithrim | Linaewen | Long Lake | Lórellin | Nen Hithoel | Nísinen | Tarn Aeluin |
References[]
- ↑ The Atlas of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings, "Henneth Annûn"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, Ch. VI: "The Forbidden Pool"