| Indexes: Alphabetical: C Alphabetical: F Miscellaneous Places About this entry: Updated 24 December 2010 Updates planned: 2 The heart of Sauron’s power A complex of tunnels and caverns bored into the eastern cone of Orodruin, known in Elvish as Sammath Naur, to which a road ran from Barad-dûr far to the east. Within the Chambers was a great fissure open to the fires of Mount Doom, called the Crack of Doom. Elsewhere in the chambers it seems that machinery ran ceaselessly (at least, a constant throbbing sound was heard). A tunnel led into the heart of a mighty volcano, needing to be constantly maintained and reconstructed by Saurons' Orcs. It was within this cavern, at the Crack of Doom, that Sauron forged the One Ring, and it was in the same place nearly five thousand years later that the Ring was finally destroyed, bringing about the Downfall of Barad-dûr. See also... Fire of Doom, Gollum, Nine-fingered, Sammath Naur, Sauron’s Road Indexes: Alphabetical: C Alphabetical: F Miscellaneous Places About this entry: Updated 24 December 2010 Updates planned: 2 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 2010. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Discus includes everything you need to examine DISC personalities and roles within a team. |
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