Mount Doom is a fictional
volcano in
J. R. R. Tolkien's
Middle-earth legendarium. It is located in the north-west of the Black Land of
Mordor and close to
Barad-dûr. Alternative names, in Tolkien's invented language of
Sindarin, include
Orodruin ("fiery mountain") and
Amon Amarth ("mountain of fate"). The
Sammath Naur ("Chambers of Fire"), made by Sauron in the Second Age, is a tunnel, leading to an interior platform with molten lava below it, located high up on the mountain's cone. It was here Sauron forged the One Ring during the Second Age.