Orodruin

Amon Amarth.

Mount Doom.

Existed in the Second and Third age. In the First age the Inland Sea of Helcar covered the area but the turmoils in the War of Wrath at the end of the age uplifted lands where none before had been and drowned others. The Sea of Helcar nearly vanished leaving only small parts left; the Sea of Nurnen and Sea of Rhûn, The mountains Ered Lithui and Ephel Dúath was raised and became the boundries of Mordor. Orodruin itself probably come to existence at the same time.

Orodruin the only known active vulcano left in Mordor was lying upon the Plateau of Gorgoroth 50 miles south of Isenmouthe and 30 miles west of Barad-Dûr. Its base were 7000 feet wide and from its feet to its tumbled shoulders it reached 3000 feet. Above its shoulder towered its central cone like a oast or chimney capped by a jagged crater yet another 1500 feet. Above the base, high in the upper cone but still far from the summit, was the intrance at the eastside to Sammath Naur and the Cracks of Doom. The road from Barad-Dûr went up along a causeway at the eastside and turned 3/4 around the mountain at the base, took a turn back west and then east again before it reached the upper cone where it ran the last 1/4 to a full circle and reached the intrance to the firechambers.

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