#mt doom

[silme-lorien]

watched rotk yesterday… 🧍‍♂️gonna need 3-6 business days to recover

[gandalf-the-fool]

[velvet4510]

It took the Ring two seconds to make both Isildur and Gollum claim it as their own.

It didn’t take much longer for it to make Bilbo do the same, as he kept it as the key “trick up his sleeve” during the Quest for Erebor and never considered harming it.

But in 17 full years and 6 months, it couldn’t make Frodo claim it. It took being inside Mt. Doom, the place where its power was absolute and drowned out all othere, to get Frodo to claim it.

Inside Mt. Doom, no bearer can resist the Ring. They will inevitably claim it there. But literally ALL of the other Ring-bearers who ever claimed it did so outside of Mt. Doom.

The Ring never needed to apply its utmost, Cracks-of-Doom-level pressure to make any previous Ring-bearer claim it. Frodo was the only one who resisted it so long and so well that it had to force itself upon him and break him just to get him to regard it as his own.

Frodo Baggins is the strongest mortal in the Third Age of Middle-Earth and no, I am not accepting questions at this time.

(Remember our beloved Samwise Gamgee never claimed the Ring, and didn’t have it long enough for it to really sink its teeth into him as deeply as it did into everyone else. I’m talking about those who actually claimed the Ring at some point in their lives.)

[mgcoco]

[mattaytchtaylor]

Ribbons in her Hair

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Mordor by Dmitry Yakhouski

[the-writing-goblin]

The worst thing about Tolkien is that with most authors you can just assume they didn't fully map out every single detail of the world. You have a question? You can probably just make up a head cannon and it's as good an answer as any. And like, you can do that with Tolkien, but there is always the very real risk that there is in fact some detail in cannon that contradicts you. Because Tolkien fucking worldbuilt some stupid, nit-picky details.

All this is to say that I've been thinking... what the hell does "forged in the fires of Mount Doom" actually mean? Like... the forge was heated by the lava? Or by some sort of thermal vent? How the fuck does that even work? Where do you set up a forge in an active volcano? Like, obviosly you'd have to be immune to fire to make it work, but how do you set up on ground stable enough to forge the damned ONE RING, which I'm pretty sure you only get one shot at, while still being close enough to the molten rock to smelt magical gold?

And on one hand, I'm fairly sure Tolkien never explains this, and probably never even thought that in depth about these challenges. But only fairly sure. Which will continue to haunt me forever.

[captainpirateface]

Tabby kiddo is Felix.

Tuxedo Fella is Elvis.