Gorgoroth,
the valley of terror in the land of Mordor.
Darkness lay there under the
sun. Fire glowed amid the smoke. Mount Doom was burning, and a great reek rising.
Then
at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black,
immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw
it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. All
hope left him...
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at Sauron's Road from Barad-dûr to the Sammath Naur, the chamber of fire.
Out of the Dark Tower's huge western gate it came over a deep abyss by a vast
bridge of iron, and then passing into the plain it ran for a league between two
smoking chasms, and so reached a long sloping causeway that led between up on
to the Mountain's eastern side. Thence,
turning and encircling all it's wide girth from south to north, it climbed at
last, high in the upper cone, but still far from the reeking summit, to a dark
entrance that gazed back east straight to the Window of the Eye in Sauron's shadow-mantled
fortress.
| From
Mount Doom in The Return of the King
| | The Artist is J.R.R. Tolkien
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Behind
Mount Doom there hung a vast shadow, ominous as a thunder cloud, the veils
of Barad-dûr that was reared far away upon a long spur of the Ashen Mountains
thrust down from the North. The
Dark Power was deep in thought, and the Eye turned inward, pondering tidings of
doubt and anger: a bright sword, and a stern and kingly face it saw, and for a
while it gave little thought to other things; and all its great stronghold, gate
on gate, tower on tower, was wrapped in a brooding gloom
| From Mount
Doom in The Return of the King |
| The Artist is Alan Lee
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| Out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself.
But far worse then all such perils was the ever-approaching threat that beat upon them as they went: the dreadful menace of the Power that waited, brooding in deep thought and sleepless malice behind the dark veil about its Throne. Nearer and nearer it drew, looming blacker, like the oncoming of a wall of night at the last end of the world.
From Mount Doom in The Return of the King |
The Artist is John Howe
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