The Mountain of Fire
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The Mountain of Fire has many names in The Lord of the Rings. It is formally named Orodruin or Mount Doom by the members of the fellowship. It is an enormous volcano in the land of Mordor. Smoke rises from its top and covers all the land with a dark and dank fume. Whenever the mountain rumbles, men from the lands bordering Mordor can hear it and are stricken with dread. Here is where the One Ring was forged. Thousands of years before the quest of Frodo, the Dark Lord Sauron, hoping to control the other ruling rings, forged his own ring. With it he invaded and slaughtered the peoples of Middle Earth.
The mountain is many miles high and miles wide. It covers much of the Mordor’s flat terrain. Frodo Baggins is sent on a quest to destroy the One Ring. To do this, he must bring the ring to the heart of the volcano and drop the ring into the fires. Here is the only place where the ring can be destroyed. When the ring finally is destroyed, the mountain explodes and lava erupts from its core. Anything within a few miles is wiped out by the heat and smoke. Afterwards, the volcano is no more than a dormant mountain with only the memory of its terrible past.
