Mount Doom

Mount Doom

Mount Doom is the Common Speech translation of Amon Amarth in Gondor. The name was given because the volcano was linked in ancient and little-understood prophecies with the final end of the Third Age, when the One Ring was found again.

Amon Amarth

place name. 'Mount Doom'

topon. 'Mount Doom'. >> amarth

Amon Amarth

noun. mount [of] doom

amon (“hill, steep-sided mount”), amarth (“fate, doom”)

Amon Amarth

Mount Doom

Sindarin: amon, "hill" and amarth, "fate, doom".

amon amarth

place name. Mount Doom, (lit.) Hill of Doom

The Sindarin name of “Mount Doom” (LotR/1037), a combination of amon “hill” and amarth “fate, doom”, literally “Hill of Doom” (RC/769).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this name first appeared as N. Amarthon >> Dolamarth (TI/343), with the element dôl for “hill” instead of amon.

Elements

Word	Gloss
amon	“hill, mountain with steep sides; lump, clump, mass, hill, (isolated) mountain; lump, clump, mass; [G.] steep slope”
amarth	“fate, doom”

dolamarth

place name. Mount Doom

Early name of S. Amon Amarth from Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, also appearing as Amarthon (TI/343). It is a combination of dôl “head, hill” and ammarth “doom”, as suggested by Roman Rausch (EE/2.57).

Elements

Word	Gloss
dôl	“head, hill”
ammarth	“fate, doom”

Variations

• Amarthon ✧ TI/343; TII/Amon Amarth