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Sammath Naur

Also known as Chambers of Fire

  • cave
  • natural volcanic formation

A dark mouth in the side of Mount Doom opening into a long tunnel bored into the smoking cone. Floor and walls are cloven by a great fissure of fire, the Crack of Doom.

Type
cave
Style
natural volcanic formation
First appears
Book 3 · Ch. 13
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 3The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

    A dark mouth in the side of Mount Doom opening into a long tunnel bored into the smoking cone. Floor and walls are cloven by a great fissure of fire, the Crack of Doom.

Key events

  1. Book 3
    Ch. 14    The Destruction of the RingSam carries the failing Frodo up Mount Doom. They face Gollum; inside the Sammath Naur, Frodo claims the Ring, but Gollum's struggle sends it—and himself—into the Crack of Doom. Mount Doom erupts; Sauron's power collapses.

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