Timeline Event
Mount Doom erupts after the Destruction of the One Ring
Event Type: Environment/Disease
Age: 3rd Age - Ring War
Date: March 25, 3019
Description:
An event in the aftermath of the Destruction of the One Ring; see that entry for an overview:
There was a roar and a great confusion of noise. Fires leaped up and licked the roof. The throbbing grew to a great tumult, and the Mountain shook. ...
[The] earth shook, the plain heaved and cracked, and Orodruin reeled. Fire belched from its riven summit. The skies burst into thunder seared with lightning.The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 3, Mount Doom
Then rising swiftly up, far above the Towers of the Black Gate, high above the mountains, a vast soaring darkness sprang into the sky, flickering with fire.The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 4, The Field of Cormallen
[A] great smoke and steam belched from the Sammath Naur, and the side of the cone was riven open, and a huge fiery vomit rolled in slow thunderous cascade down the eastern mountain-side.The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 4, The Field of Cormallen
[The] earth gaped, and from deep rifts and pits smoke and fumes leaped up. ... [The] Mountain was convulsed. Great rents opened in its side. Slow rivers of fire came down the long slopes.... A rain of hot ash was falling.The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 4, The Field of Cormallen
[Gwaihir] ... passed over Udûn and Gorgoroth and saw all the land in ruin and tumult beneath..., and ... Mount Doom blazing, pouring out its fire.The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 4, The Field of Cormallen
Contributors:
Elena Tiriel 8Aug06, 13Aug06