The evil of Mordor is magnified in its emptiness, a dark land with no voices.
It is a good thing that Mordor is emptied then, the armies of Sauron well behind them. The Ring’s junkie effect is at its peak for Frodo.
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Frodo is in no fit state to be carrying this thing full stop, let alone destroying it. They travel on, and Frodo reaches his lowest ebb, almost a ghost now, wraith like as he was way back in “Flight To The Ford”, barely speaking, acting as if obstacles are in his way that aren’t there, reaching out for the Ring. No joy in that direction, and it is up to Sam again to push Frodo into accepting the obvious, yet painful to contemplate truth: they have to risk the roads again, or else they won’t make it. That last task is given some set-up next, as Sam surrveys the land between them and Mt Doom, an ugly pocketed desert, leading up to the slag-filled slopes of the volcano itself. He’s a dead man walking, so why worry? His task is to get Frodo to Mt Doom, so that’s what he’s going to do, and that’s what he’ll cling onto as a motivation from here on in. Such thoughts might drive someone else to despair – Frodo probably – but not Sam, who takes new strength from such thinking. It is no surprise then that the character thinks, in this desperate moment, of the Shire, of better days, of Rosie Cotton, the girl Sam is clearly in love with. Well, he has gone nearly as far as he can go now, and it seems he won’t be able to go home after all. Sam’s motivation for most of the quest has been a desire to go home, but he acknowledged way back in Lorien that this was only possible by going forward. His thoughts are less on himself, or Frodo, and more on all of the things he has left behind. Sam takes this knowledge well enough, but does leave himself with some room for remorse. Sam finally begins to think about things a little bit more and it is a depressing realisation: their current path is likely to be only one way, terminating permanently at the destination, not only because their supplies are nearly done, but because the mountain is probably going to kill them if the Ring is ever cast into it. The two hobbits hunker down for a while, contemplating, as the reader must, the final march on the volcano. Acting almost like a parent to a toddler with Frodo, who seems content to go in and out of these phases where he makes no effort to do anything at all.
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The creation of Mount Doom has likely signaled Sauron’s imminent arrival into the series – for more on the character, check our guide to who could be playing Sauron and the theory that Halbrand could be Sauron in disguise.Sam is still the man in charge. In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it’s also the destination where Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee must head to be able to destroy the One Ring. After Sauron’s disappearance, Mount Doom once again lies dormant until his return in the Third Age. The One Ring would go on to give Sauron huge strength and power, as it bound his life to it.Īs for Mount Doom, it lies dormant until almost the end of the Second Age when it erupts before Sauron attacks Gondor. He forged it in the Cracks of Doom, located in Orodruin’s heart, in the middle of the Second Age.
Meanwhile, in secret, Sauron used the tunnels in Mount Doom’s core to craft his own ring, which would rule all of the others. In Tolkien’s books, Sauron – in Annatar form – tricked Celebrimbor to create a series of Rings of Power for Men, Elves, and Dwarves. Mount Doom is the place where Sauron created the One Ring. "We said, 'Mordor is this iconic place, what if we could actually take something that's like beautiful Switzerland, a gorgeous Alpine territory, and watch it evolve into the horrible hellhole that we know so well?'" What is the significance of Mount Doom? Payne told an audience, including Total Film, at a recent screening that they wanted to glimpse into a pre-Mordor, pre-Mount Doom world before blowing it to bits.
At its southwest lies Mount Doom, which was also a key reason he chose the location. Sauron chose the location as the ranges acted as a fortress, guarded by the Black Gate of Mordor, which made it perfect for defense. By the Third Age (when the main Lord of the Rings story is set), it's a black, volcanic plain is surrounded by mountains. Mordor will one day be Sauron’s dwelling. The volcano’s eruption marks the beginning of its transformation into Mordor.
Speaking to Elendil in the Hall of Lore, she realized that Sauron’s symbol – the one he used to mark her brother – is actually a map of the Southlands. Earlier in the Rings of Power, Galadriel discovered the fate of the Southlands.
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