Middle-earth has loads of well-known mountains, from the peaks of the Misty Mountains to Erebor, however maybe a very powerful to the story is Mount Doom, the volcano on the middle of Sauron’s evil area of Mordor. In the most recent episode of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, we acquired a shocking and explosive origin story for the sequence’ most well-known volcano.

[Ed. note: The story contains spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power episode 6.]

To reply the obvious query first, sure, that was in reality Mount Doom that erupted on the finish of the episode. In case you, like Galadriel, are horrible at remembering what Middle-earth appears like on a map, the Southlands of The Rings of Power, the place the besieged village of Ostirith sits, additionally occurs to be the land that can later grow to be Mordor.

It appears that the evolution of the land from lush fields and delightful mountains was a part of a grand design by both Morgoth or Sauron and was triggered by the sword-key, releasing a large flood. This flood destroyed the land, due to the tunnels the orcs had already dug, and triggered an eruption of the volcanic Mount Doom (although within the present’s time it doesn’t have that identify but) till it erupted. This eruption spewed molten rock and magma in a miles-wide radius that it seems will stay scorched ceaselessly, or no less than till Frodo, Sam, and Gollum arrive there with the One Ring.

While the historical past of Mount Doom isn’t very express in Tolkien’s lore, the present’s story does appear to principally line up. We know that the land wasn’t all the time known as Mordor, and that the identify probably arrived after Mount Doom’s eruption, however there’s no point out of the eruption itself being attributable to an intentional flood.

As for what’s going to occur to the realm subsequent, and the way lengthy it should take earlier than Sauron takes up residence there, we’ll simply have to attend to see the place The Rings of Power takes its story subsequent.