Mount Ngauruhoe
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Mount Ngauruhoe is a volcanic cone in New Zealand. It is the youngest vent in the Tongariro stratovolcano complex on the Central Plateau of the North Island and first erupted about 2,500 years ago. Al
Ngauruhoe seen from Mount Tongariro
Ngauruhoe seen from across Tongariro's South Crater. The usual route up the mountain is visible on the right.
Panorama of Mount Ngauruhoe and surroundings as seen from Mount Tongariro, with Mount Ruapehu in the background.
Mount Ngauruhoe in eruption, 1909.
Mordor
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional continent of Middle-earth, Mordor is the realm of the Dark Lord Sauron. It lay to the east of Gondor and the great river Anduin, and to the south of Mirkwood. Within Mo
Mount Ngauruhoe
…last eruption had been the day before and an eruption occurred at the end of his final run. Mount Ngauruhoe was used as a stand-in for the fictional Mount Doom in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, achieving worldwide exposure. The first recorded ascent by a European was by John Bidwill in…
Mount Doom (left, in the distance) and a door on the eastern side of Barad-dûr (right) as drawn by J. R. R. Tolkien in an illustration used in the 1973 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar.
Tolkien identified the volcano of Stromboli off Sicily with Mount Doom.
Mount Ngauruhoe was Peter Jackson's inspiration for the Mount Doom in his films.
Frodo and Sam guided by Gollum through the Dead Marshes. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1984