J.R.R._Tolkien_-_Orodruin.jpg (526 × 411 pixels, file size: 14 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
This sketch by J.R.R. Tolkien of Orodruin (Mount Doom) was done on a rejected page of the manuscript of The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 3, Mount Doom. In the original the tongue of flame at the cone of the mountain is coloured red, and beneath the words visible in the reproduction is written
- 'Mt Doom from the North'
In this sketch is seen the
- 'long sloping causeway that led up on to the Mountain's eastern side'
carrying Sauron's Road from Barad-dûr up to the dark entrance of the Sammath Naur. It was published as an inset to the painting of Barad-dur in The Lord of the Rings 1977 Calendar.
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