Cracks of Doom

The Cracks of Doom, also referred to as Sammath Naur, was the name given to the volcanic fissure in Mount Doom where the One Ring was forged by Sauron, and the only place at which it could be destroyed.
==History and description==
This place is described in The Return of the King as a great fissure boring a large tunnel down into Mount Doom. From the Cracks of Doom, a red light, presumably from lava, was emitted. The red glow was the only light in the cavern, as even the Phial of Galadriel was dimmed by the power of Sauron in the heart of his realm. There was a road leading from Barad-dûr to the Cracks of Doom.
Frodo claimed the One Ring here; he and Gollum fought over it. Gollum subsequently fell into the Cracks itself with the Ring, thus completing the Quest of the Ring.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter III: "Mount Doom"
==Etymology==
Sammath Naur is Sindarin, indicated to mean "chambers of fire".
==In adaptations==
===Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring===
In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film, Elrond leads Isildur to the Cracks of Doom to destroy the One Ring immediately after it is cut from Sauron's hand, but Isildur refuses and takes the Ring for himself. It appears as a doorway with a long bridge that ends with a narrow cliff, to where the lava falls.
In The Lord of the Rings Online, a flashback depicting the creation of The One Ring shows a great ring-forge of Sauron inside Sammath Naur. The location is not accessible to the player and is visited only once again, during a Session Play depicting the destructions of the Ring, in which the player controls Gollum.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Krake van Straf
Albanian 	Çarje e Dënim
Arabic 	شقوق الموت
Armenian 	Ծրածկս ոֆ Դոոմ
Azerbaijani 	Apokalipsis çatlar
Belarusian Cyrillic 	Расколіны кобі
Bengali 	ক্র্যাকস অফ ডুম
Bosnian 	Pukotine kobi
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Пукнатини на съдбата
Cambodian 	បំបែកនៃសេចក្ដីវិនាស
Catalan 	Esquerdes del Destí
Cebuano 	Liki sa Kalaglagan
Chichewa 	Ming'alu ya Kiyama
Chinese 	裂缝的厄运
Corsican 	Scrusciri di Andantino ?
Croatian 	Napukline kobi
Czech 	Pukliny osudu
Danish 	Dommedagsspalterne
Dutch 	Scheuren van Doom
Esperanto 	Fendoj de Fatalo
Filipino 	Bitak ng Tadhana
Finnish 	Tuhon Halkeamat
French 	Crevasse du Destin
Frisian 	Scheuren fan Doom
Galician 	Fendas do Destino
German 	Schicksalsklüfte
Greek 	Ρωγμές της μοίρας
Gujarati 	ડૂમ તિરાડો
Hebrew 	גיא האבדון
Hindi 	विनाश की दरारें
Hmong 	Kab nrib pleb uas Doom
Hungarian 	Repedések a Végzet
Indonesian 	Retak Kiamat
Italian 	Voragine del Fato
Irish Gaelic 	Scoilteanna na Seirbigh
Japanese 	運命の亀裂
Javanese 	Retak Siksa
Kannada 	ಡೂಮ್ ಬಿರುಕುಗಳು
Korean 	운명의 균열
Kurdish 	Qulikên Qutên (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	алаамат толтурулган жаракалар
Latvian 	Nosodījuma plaisas
Lithuanian 	Įtrūkimai Bausmė
Macedonian Cyrillic 	Пукнатини на несреќата
Malayalam 	ഡൂം വിഭജനം
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Зөгнөлийн хагарал
Nepalese 	डूम क्र्याक्स
Norwegian 	Sprekker av Undergang
Pashto 	د عذاب درزونه
Persian 	ترک رستاخیز
Polish 	Szczeliny Zagłady
Portuguese (Brazil) 	Fendas da Perdição
Romanian 	Crapaturi de Doom
Russian 	Трещины гибели
Scottish Gaelic 	Sgoltaidhean de Bhite
Serbian 	Пукотине пропасти (Cyrillic) Pukotine propasti (Latin)
Slovak 	Trhliny skazy
Slovenian 	Razpoke obsodba
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Grietas del Destino
Sundanese 	Retakan tina Doom
Swahili 	Nyufa wa Adhabu
Swedish 	Sprickor av Doom
Thai 	รอยร้าวของการลงโทษ
Tajik Cyrillic 	Тарқишҳои аз ҷазоро
Tamil 	டூம் விரிசல்
Tatar 	Апокалиптик ярыклар
Telugu 	డూమ్ యొక్క పగుళ్లు
Turkish 	Kıyamet çatlaklar
Turkmen 	Apokaliptik çatryklar
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Тріщини приреченості
Urdu 	عذاب کی درار
Uzbek 	Қиёмат Йориқлар (Cyrillic) Qiyomat Yoriqlar (Latin)
Welsh 	Craciau o Doom
Xhosa 	Iintanda Kutshatyalaliswa
Yiddish 	קראַקקס פון דום
Yoruba 	Dojuijako ti Ìparun
Yucatec Maya 	Grietas u Doom
==References==
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