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| Apr 5, 2017 at 19:50 | comment | added | J Doe | @user8719 actually, the Sea of Helcar is the site of one of the original Lamps, so it is entirely possible there is some remnant of magic or craft of the Valar there. But I don't think there's ever been any mention of that being the reason or any need to introduce it as a reason. | |
| May 20, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | Spencer | @ASH-Aisyah: Not true. Valaquenta has a long passage about Melkor's struggles with the (other) Valar, including things like "Mountains they raised up and Melkor threw them down." | |
| May 4, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | ASH-Aisyah | Yeahp, plus the fact that Sauron's power was already in the Ring, which was lost. So, even if he wanted to destroy the mountain, which he didn't, he probably couldn't have. Besides, even with the Ring, he wasn't as powerful as his Master Morgoth, and even Morgoth couldn't change the geography of the land. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 5:03 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @Default_User - since Orcs are willing to go AWOL and desert their master over relatively slight matters, it is reasonable to assume that they would desert if they were ordered to take on a seriously risky assignment like living next to a volcano that emits toxic gases and equally deadly lava without warning. | |
| May 16, 2015 at 5:00 | comment | added | Wad Cheber | @Default_User - the books apparently reveal that there is no water in the vicinity of Mount Doom, which would make a permanent barracks there unlivable. Mordor is a very dry place, so trucking water in would be very difficult. Also, if Mt. Doom is anything like real volcanoes, it ejects TONS of toxic gases on a regular basis. Sauron probably wouldn't care about how many Orcs died from inhaling deadly gas, since he is pure evil, but the Orcs would certainly be reluctant at best to stay put after their kin had been wiped out by the gases several times, and Orcs are already prone to disloyalty | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 21:19 | comment | added | user8719 | @Default_User - already answered (you really should search first before raising objections that don't exist) - scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/59650/… | |
| Mar 13, 2015 at 20:52 | comment | added | Valandil | Sauron could still have blocked the way then.In the movie, Frodo literally "simply walks into Mount Doom". If I was Sauron, I would atleast consider stationing a permanent Orc army there seeing how dangerous it is to leave it open and unguarded. | |
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| Jan 22, 2014 at 17:27 | comment | added | user8719 | @CarlWitthoft - there's a consensus in some areas that Mordor was under the Inland Sea of Helcar in the First Age (e.g Karen Wynn Fonstand's maps) so it's unlikely to have been an ancient magic spot. | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @RoyalCanadianBandit You're assuming that Mordorian geotectics are the same as on our Earth :-) . What if Mount Doom were a local ancient magic spot which produced lava w/out connecting to a subsurface magma layer? After all, we don't really know what caused the Doom of Valirya either :-) | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | Good answer. Also, Sauron was not necessarily capable of destroying Mount Doom. He might have been able to level the mountain, but to stop it from erupting again he would have to get rid of the geological fault underneath it. Messing around with the structure of continents appears to be well beyond his power. | |
| Jan 22, 2014 at 10:03 | history | answered | user8719 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |