Mount Doom

Mount Doom

Mount Doom (in Sindarin: Amon Amarth) or Orodruin ("Mountain of Blazing Fire") is more than an ordinary volcano; it responds to Sauron's commands and his presence, lapsing into dormancy when he is away from Mordor, and becoming active again when he returns. It is the place where the One Ring was forged, and its magma heart is the only place where it can be destroyed. When Sauron is defeated at the end of the Third Age with the destruction of the One Ring, the volcano erupts violently.