![]() ![]() It all builds toward this geologically realistic way of igniting the mountain, which now blacks out the sky for a very practical reason - Adar, our villain, sees the Orcs as his people and they deserve a home where the sun doesn’t torment them. Then you find out about the tunnels being dug and sulfur is going up into the air. And then what could happen that could transform it? We talked about the poisoning of the land - which starts in the first episode with the cow. So in the writers room, we asked: What if Mordor was beautiful? All bucolic like Switzerland. It’s a thing that comes up again and again throughout the show. “We wanted that to be central and core all the time. “A huge theme in Tolkien is the environmentalism and the way machines and industrializations destroys the land,” McKay says. It was something discussed at length in the show’s writers room, and according to showrunner Patrick McKay, the idea to use more realistic means to detonate Mount Doom was made to keep things more in line with the overall themes of Tolkien’s work. Instead, The Rings of Power opted to use a surprising amount of science to pull off this big twist. In a show filled with magic, it would have been easy to fall back on some mystical reason for Mount Doom’s eruption. When the water hit the magma beneath the volcano, it caused an eruption which covered the Southlands in fire and ash, paving the way for its transformation into the blackened land of Mordor. The ensuing torrent washed down into the tunnels dug by the orcs, where it eventually found its way under a mountain which should be familiar to any Lord of the Ringsfan: Mount Doom, the very volcano that Sauron will one day use to craft the One Ring. Other areas of Tongariro National Park including Tawhai Falls and Rangipo Desert were also used to create the sinister realm of Mordor in the epic fantasy films.The latest episode of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Powerfeatured a plot twist of volcanic proportions: after a pitched battle in the Southlands, one of the corrupted elf Adar’s followers used a sword which doubled as a key to open a dam, triggering a natural calamity. Due to the magma rising, scientists hypothesized that the likelihood of an eruption may have increased within the Crater Lake basin. ![]() This suggested to scientists that magma was rising slowly under the volcano between March and June, but had since stopped. In addition to the steamy, sulfur-filled crater keeping things interesting, a magmatic intrusion was detected beneath the volcano during this period of volcanic unrest. By July, both temperatures and emissions dropped enough to lower the alert level. In May, the water temperature peaked at a balmy 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), but cooled down to a more pleasant 75 degrees Fahrenheit (24 degrees Celsius). Moderate tremors led volcanologists in the area to issue an alert about heightened volcanic activity, and they monitored Crater Lake’s temperature and sulfur dioxide emission samples. Ruapehu was dormant from 2011 until some volcanic unrest was reported in March of this year. Crater Lake is the only geologically active part of the stratovolcano that is visible at the surface, and changes in both the lake’s water temperatures (mostly increases) and gas emissions can signal impending volcanic activity. It’s heated by hydrothermal system within the volcano, so it remains warm all year (roughly 50 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit) and is highly acidic. Near Mount Ruapehu’s summit lies Crater Lake (Te Wai ā-moe). Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand as seen aboard the International Space Station last year. Some other well known stratovolcanoes include Japan’s Mount Fuji, the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, and Guatemala’s Mount Agua. Stratavolcaoes are often considered the most picturesque for their slopes, but are also the most deadly. According to the Earth Observatory, Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano that is 9,177 feet (2,797 meters) tall at its highest point, making it the tallest mountain on New Zealand’s North Island. It shows a straight down (or nadir) view of the mountain and Tongariro National Park. The photo was taken on September 23, 2021, and released this week by the NASA Earth Observatory. However, this active volcano in the center of New Zealand’s North Island was the filming location for the real-life Mount Doom in Peter Jackson’s groundbreaking “Lord of the Rings” movies. When an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) snapped an eerie photo of a real volcano atop New Zealand’s Mount Ruapehu, unfortunately no dwarves, elves, or hobbits were in sight. ![]()
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