page_title: Mount Doom
section_title: Concept and creation
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Doom / Concept and creation
caption_attribution_description: English: The Island of Stromboli, Shot 2004 Sep 28 by Steven W. Dengler. Autor&#160;: Contact steven[at]dengler[point]net for larger resolutions of this photo, or to inquire about commercial use.
context_page_description: Mount Doom is a fictional volcano in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. It is located in the northwest of the Black Land of Mordor and close to Barad-dûr. Alternative names, in Tolkien's invented language of Sindarin, include Orodruin and Amon Amarth.
  The Sammath Naur, located high up in the mountain's cone, were made by the Dark Lord Sauron in the Second Age. They comprised a tunnel leading to an interior platform with molten lava below it, known as the Cracks of Doom. It was here Sauron forged the One Ring during the Second Age.
  The mountain represents the endpoint of Frodo Baggins' quest to destroy the Ring, which is recounted in The Lord of the Rings. The mountain's chambers are the site where the One Ring was originally forged by Sauron, and the only place it can be destroyed.
context_section_description: According to the fanzine Niekas, Tolkien "caught a glimpse of Mount Doom" when sailing past the volcano of Stromboli off Sicily.
  Another possible source of the name is a long story by Algernon Blackwood.
  Reviewer Bart Higgins noted the similarity between Tolkien's Mount Doom and the volcanic caverns under Venus depicted in Perelandra by Tolkien's friend C.S. Lewis. "In both cases, the book reaches a cataclysmic scene of a struggle in a cavern, ending with an evil being falling into volcanic fire and being consumed. Since it is well known that Tolkien and Lewis frequently shared with each other their respective works in progress, it is reasonable to assume that the resemblance is no coincidence".
caption: The volcano of Stromboli off Sicily
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