Varför slog inte fellesskapet den One Ring in i någon annan vulkan? [duplicera]

Du är felaktig. Inte någon vulkan skulle göra, inte heller skulle drakefire förstöra One Ring. Mount Doom hade magisk betydelse, sedan ringen fanns där.

‘Your small fire, of course would not melt even ordinary gold. This Ring has already passed through it unscathed, and even unheated. But there is no smith's forge in this Shire that could change it at all. Not even the anvils and furnaces of the Dwarves could do that. It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the Rings of Power, but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough; nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself.

There is only one way: to find the Cracks of Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there, if you really wish to destroy it, to put it beyond the grasp of the Enemy for ever.’

LotR, tidigare skuggor

Jag tvivlar också på att dvärgarna någonsin drog ner i magma. Det finns ingen indikation jag är medveten om att de gjorde det. Gandalf föll i Moria, som var den största dvärgens största och antika fördjupning, och Gandalf föll vidare än dvärgarna hade delvat, och han rapporterade inte det.

‘Name him not! ’ said Gandalf, and for a moment it seemed that a cloud of pain passed over his face, and he sat silent, looking old as death. ‘Long time I fell,’ he said at last, slowly, as if thinking back with difficulty. ‘Long I fell, and he fell with me. His fire was about me. I was burned. Then we plunged into the deep water and all was dark. Cold it was as the tide of death: almost it froze my heart.’

‘Deep is the abyss that is spanned by Durin's Bridge, and none has measured it,’ said Gimli.

‘Yet it has a bottom, beyond light and knowledge,’ said Gandalf. ‘Thither I came at last, to the uttermost foundations of stone. He was with me still. His fire was quenched, but now he was a thing of slime, stronger than a strangling snake.

‘We fought far under the living earth, where time is not counted. Ever he clutched me, and ever I hewed him, till at last he fled into dark tunnels. They were not made by Durin's folk, Gimli son of Gloin. Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. (LotR, The White Rider)

Vi har ingen anledning att tro att de andra dvärghushållen som är kända i väst, i Iron Hills och Blue Mountains, hade större sannolikhet att ha magma under dem på något uppnåeligt djup.

Dessutom finns det inga andra kända vulkaner i Middle Earth; de skulle behöva upptäcka dem. Oavsett vulkaner som existerade var nästan säkert i söder och öst, dominerades också av riket av Sauron.

Det var ingen vanlig vulkan

When Sauron began searching Middle-earth during the Second Age for a permanent dwelling place, his attention was immediately drawn to Mordor, and especially to Orodruin, whose power he believed he could use to his advantage. He subsequently established his kingdom based around Orodruin and "used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging". The most famous of Sauron's creations forged at Mount Doom is the One Ring. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf explains that the materials of which the Ring is made are so durable and the enchantments with which it is imbued so powerful that it can only be destroyed in the Cracks of Doom where it was made.

Orodruin is more than just an ordinary volcano; it responds to Sauron's commands and his presence¹, lapsing into dormancy when he is away from Mordor and becoming active again when he returns. When Sauron is defeated at the end of the Third Age, the volcano erupts violently.

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Detta är underförstått bevis från två observationer

Sauron extended his own power into it, and was able to control its fires. It seems to have lain dormant when Sauron was away from Mordor, and sprung into life when his power grew. After the Downfall of Númenor, for example, the Exiles in Middle-earth first knew that Sauron had also escaped the Downfall when they saw smoke rising from Orodruin, and an Age later at the Council of Elrond (The Lord of the Rings II 2), Boromir says 'The Nameless Enemy has arisen again. Smoke rises once more from Orodruin that we call Mount Doom'.

Dessa två slår fast att när människor såg aktivitet från vulkanen, innebar det att den mörka Herren var uppe på machinations vid Fire Mountain. Förslaget är att på något sätt hans kraftfulla magiker aktiverade vulkanen, det vill säga att den svarade.

Sidanmärkning:

It isn't clear how Elrond or Círdan could know that throwing the Ring into Orodruin would destroy it - neither of them had had any part in the making of the Rings of Power, and both had refused Sauron's lore when he offered it to them. At this time, though, both Elrond and Círdan were themselves Ring-bearers (of the Elven-rings Vilya and Narya), and perhaps these Rings gave them special insight².

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