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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
While I think the bulk of the discussion about Mount Doom should wait for its own chapter, I think it is safe to say now that it was not the Secret Fire. That is "with" Eru and we know that Eru does not physically appear in Ea.
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I wonder how 'safe' it is to say that?
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"Therefore Ilúvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart of the World and it was called Eä." ('Valaquenta')
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He 'used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging' ('Of the Rings of Power & the Third Age')
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Assuming 'the heart of the world' & 'the heart of the earth' mean the same thing, then I think its entirely possible that the fires of Orodruin are more than just simple volcanic fires. They seem to have a greater power in them than extreme heat...