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

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”

Amon Amarth

Mount Doom

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

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.

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