Sauron's Road

Sauron's Road, also known as the Barad-dûr Road,The Chronology of The Lord of the Rings, pg. 148 was a road leading from Barad-dûr to the Cracks of Doom inside Mount Doom.
It crossed the great iron bridge at the Dark Tower, proceeding across the Plateau of Gorgoroth and then up a long causeway to the Sammath Naur.
== Description ==
The road ran from Barad-dûr to Mount Doom, in Mordor. It began at the great western gate of Barad-dûr. It spanned a deep abyss by way of a long iron bridge and then ran westward for a league (3 miles) across the Plateau of Gorgoroth.
On either side of the road were smoking chasms. At the foot of Mount Doom, Sauron's Road climbed a long causeway up the eastern slopes. The road then wound upwards around the mountain, turning first south then west then north and back to the east.
The road encircled the base of the mountain, which was 3,000 feet high, and then ran partway up the cone, which rose another 1,500 feet. It ended at the door to the Chambers of Fire on the east side of Mount Doom facing the Window of the Eye in Barad-dûr. Sauron's Road was a broad path paved with ash and broken rubble.The Atlas of Middle-earth, Regional Maps, "Mordor (and Adjacent Lands)"
== History ==
The Road was probably blazed in the late sixteenth century of the Second Age when Sauron sought to control the other rings by creating the One Ring, using it as an easy way to get to and from the mountain during his labors. Over the long ages it was frequently blocked and ruined by the ravages of the erupting volcano, but was always repaired.
Frodo and Sam used part of this road to get up the mountain during their quest to destroy the ring when on March 25, 3019 of the Third Age, Sam carried Frodo up the northern slopes of Mount Doom until he found Sauron's Road leading to their destination. "'Why, it might have been put there a-purpose!' he said to himself. 'If it wasn't there, I'd have to say I was beaten in the end.'"The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter III: "Mount Doom"
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Sauron se pad
Albanian 	Sauron-së rrugë
Amharic 	መንገድ የ ጻኡሮን
Armenian 	Սաւրոնի ուղի
Arabic 	طريق سورون
Assamese 	ছাউৰনৰ ৰাস্তা
Asturian 	Camín de Sauron
Azerbaijani 	Sauron'in yol
Basque 	Sauronaren errepide
Belarusian Cyrillic	Саўронава дарога
Bengali 	সৌরনের রাস্তা
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Саурон на пътя
Catalan 	Carretera de Sauron
Corsican 	Strada di Sauron
Croatian 	Sauronov cesta
Czech 	Sauronova silnice
Danish 	Saurons vej
Dari 	جاده های سائورون
Dutch 	Weg van Sauron
Esperanto 	Vojo de Saŭrono
Estonian 	Sauron'i maantee
Faroese 	Saurons vegurin
Finnish 	Sauronin tie
French 	Route de Sauron
Friulian 	Strade di Sauron
Galician 	Estrada de Sauron
German 	Saurons Straße
Greek 	Δρόμος του Σάουρον
Hebrew 	נתיב סאורון
Hindi 	सौरोन की सड़क
Hungarian 	Szauron útja
Icelandic 	Vegur Saurons
Indonesian 	Jalan Sauron
Irish Gaelic 	Bóthar Sauron
Italian 	Strada di Sauron
Japanese 	サウロンの道路
Javanese 	Jalan Sauron
Kannada 	ಸೌರನ್ ರಸ್ತೆ
Kazakh 	Сауронтың жол (Cyrillic) Sawrontıñ jol (Latin)
Korean 	사우론의 길
Macedonian Cyrillic	Патот на Саурон
Malayalam 	സൗരോണിൻ്റെ റോഡ്
Malaysian 	Jalan Sauron
Maltese 	Triq tal-Sauron
Marathi 	सायरोनचा रस्ता
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Саурон-ийн зам
Occitan 	Camin de Sauron
Persian 	جاده سائورون
Polish 	Droga Saurona
Portuguese 	Estrada de Sauron
Punjabi 	ਸੌਰਨ ਦੀ ਸੜਕ
Norwegian 	Sauron ' vei
Romanian 	Drumul lui Sauron
Russian 	Дороге Саурона
Samoan 	Ala o Sauron
Sardinian 	Camín de Sauron
Scottish Gaelic 	Rathad Úi Sauron
Sicilian 	Strata di Sauron
Sinhalese 	සොරෝන් පාර
Slovak 	Sauronov cestné
Slovenian 	Sauronjev cesti
Spanish 	Carretera de Sauron
Swedish 	Saurons väg
Tajik Cyrillic 	Саурони роҳ
Tamil 	ஷௌரொந்ன் சாலை
Tatar 	Саурон юлы
Telugu 	సారన్ యొక్క రహదారి
Thai 	ถนนของเซารอน
Turkish 	Sauron'un Yolu
Turkmen 	Sauronyň Ýoly
Venetian 	Strada de Sauron
Vietnamese 	Đường của Sauron
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Дорога Саурона
Uzbek 	Сауроннинг йўли (Cyrillic) Sauronning yo'li (Latin)
Welsh 	Ffordd Sauron
Xhosa 	Indlela yeSauron
Yiddish 	סאַוראָן ס וועג
Yoruba 	Òpópónà Sauron
== References ==
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