Talk:Cracks of Doom

Some Needed Changes
I renamed this article to reflect its name in the book (FR: 'The Shadow of the Past'). The article also needs to be changed to reflect the true nature of the Cracks of Doom. They were not the volcano but a great, fiery fissure within. Consider the following from FR. When Gandalf was talking to Frodo about the necessity of destroying the Ring and Frodo had proposed doing so, Gandalf explained that it was a matter not easily done&mdash;that no smithy's fire was hot enough and that not even the fire of the great dragons of old could destroy the One Ring.

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

This shows that Orodruin was one thing and the Cracks of Doom another.

&mdash;N3rus 03:44, 5 March 2007 (UTC)