Cracks of Doom

This article refers to the fissure in Mount Doom. For other namesakes, see Crack of Doom (disambiguation).

The Cracks of Doom, also referred to as Sammath Naur, was the name given to the volcanic fissure in Mount Doom where the One Ring was forged by Sauron, and the only place at which it could be destroyed.

History and description

This place is described in The Return of the King as a great fissure boring a large tunnel down into Mount Doom. From the Cracks of Doom, a red light, presumably from lava, was emitted. The red glow was the only light in the cavern, as even the Phial of Galadriel was dimmed by the power of Sauron in the heart of his realm. There was a road leading from Barad-dûr to the Cracks of Doom.

Frodo claimed the One Ring here; he and Gollum fought over it. Gollum subsequently fell into the Cracks itself with the Ring, thus completing the Quest of the Ring.

Etymology

Sammath Naur

Sammath Naur is Sindarin, indicated to mean "chambers of fire".

In adaptations

Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring

In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film, Elrond leads Isildur to the Cracks of Doom to destroy the One Ring immediately after it is cut from Sauron's hand, but Isildur refuses and takes the Ring for himself. It appears as a doorway with a long bridge that ends with a narrow cliff, to where the lava falls.

Sammath Naur in The Lord of the Rings Online

In The Lord of the Rings Online, a flashback depicting the creation of The One Ring shows a great ring-forge of Sauron inside Sammath Naur. The location is not accessible to the player and is visited only once again, during a Session Play depicting the destructions of the Ring, in which the player controls Gollum.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Krake van Straf
Albanian	Çarje e Dënim
Arabic	شقوق الموت
Armenian	Ծրածկս ոֆ Դոոմ
Azerbaijani	Apokalipsis çatlar
Belarusian Cyrillic	Расколіны кобі
Bengali	ক্র্যাকস অফ ডুম
Bosnian	Pukotine kobi
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Пукнатини на съдбата
Cambodian	បំបែកនៃសេចក្ដីវិនាស
Catalan	Esquerdes del Destí
Cebuano	Liki sa Kalaglagan
Chichewa	Ming'alu ya Kiyama
Chinese	裂缝的厄运
Corsican	Scrusciri di Andantino ?
Croatian	Napukline kobi
Czech	Pukliny osudu
Danish	Dommedagsspalterne
Dutch	Scheuren van Doom
Esperanto	Fendoj de Fatalo
Filipino	Bitak ng Tadhana
Finnish	Tuhon Halkeamat
French	Crevasse du Destin
Frisian	Scheuren fan Doom
Galician	Fendas do Destino
German	Schicksalsklüfte
Greek	Ρωγμές της μοίρας
Gujarati	ડૂમ તિરાડો
Hebrew	גיא האבדון
Hindi	विनाश की दरारें
Hmong	Kab nrib pleb uas Doom
Hungarian	Repedések a Végzet
Indonesian	Retak Kiamat
Italian	Voragine del Fato
Irish Gaelic	Scoilteanna na Seirbigh
Japanese	運命の亀裂
Javanese	Retak Siksa
Kannada	ಡೂಮ್ ಬಿರುಕುಗಳು
Korean	운명의 균열
Kurdish	Qulikên Qutên (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	алаамат толтурулган жаракалар
Latvian	Nosodījuma plaisas
Lithuanian	Įtrūkimai Bausmė
Macedonian Cyrillic	Пукнатини на несреќата
Malayalam	ഡൂം വിഭജനം
Mongolian Cyrillic	Зөгнөлийн хагарал
Nepalese	डूम क्र्याक्स
Norwegian	Sprekker av Undergang
Pashto	د عذاب درزونه
Persian	ترک رستاخیز
Polish	Szczeliny Zagłady
Portuguese (Brazil)	Fendas da Perdição
Romanian	Crapaturi de Doom
Russian	Трещины гибели
Scottish Gaelic	Sgoltaidhean de Bhite
Serbian	Пукотине пропасти (Cyrillic) Pukotine propasti (Latin)
Slovak	Trhliny skazy
Slovenian	Razpoke obsodba
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Grietas del Destino
Sundanese	Retakan tina Doom
Swahili	Nyufa wa Adhabu
Swedish	Sprickor av Doom
Thai	รอยร้าวของการลงโทษ
Tajik Cyrillic	Тарқишҳои аз ҷазоро
Tamil	டூம் விரிசல்
Tatar	Апокалиптик ярыклар
Telugu	డూమ్ యొక్క పగుళ్లు
Turkish	Kıyamet çatlaklar
Turkmen	Apokaliptik çatryklar
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Тріщини приреченості
Urdu	عذاب کی درار
Uzbek	Қиёмат Йориқлар (Cyrillic) Qiyomat Yoriqlar (Latin)
Welsh	Craciau o Doom
Xhosa	Iintanda Kutshatyalaliswa
Yiddish	קראַקקס פון דום
Yoruba	Dojuijako ti Ìparun
Yucatec Maya	Grietas u Doom