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Originally Posted by the phantom
If this is true, then Sauron definitely missed a chance to make himself a bit more difficult to kill. He should've told Mt Doom to cool off once he had forged the Ring. Duh. No super hot fires = a very safe Ring.
Just think about it. If the only way to unmake the Ring was in Mt Doom then what would Gandalf and company have done if Sauron "killed" Mt Doom?
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I think that's easily explained because Sauron never even considered that anyone would ever
think of destroying the Ring. This is in itself emblematic of Sauron's nature, he was so self-assured that he believed the One Ring would never be destroyed, that
nobody would be able to resist it and consider destroying it.
But getting back to the Palantiri and the Ring,
why can they
only be destroyed in Orodruin? Surely it is not a case of the heat itself? With a slew of smiths working in Middle Earth, coupled with Gandalf's own mastery of and fascination for fire, and the existence of gunpowder, a fire hot enough to destroy a Ring would surely be easy to create?
It must therefore be something else, not
just the heat of the fissures, which makes it the only (known) place where this unmaking can happen. The concept that the Ring can be unmade here is easy enough to grasp, because it was also made here, but why should this be the one place where the Palantiri can be destroyed? They were not made there, so what's so special about Orodruin?
It could indeed be a place where something of the secret fire is manifest within Middle Earth, whether by intent or accident. It does not have to be Eru who has made this possible, if it was there all along, within the physical structure of Arda. Heresy! Maybe... but as we have seen, the White Light can be broken, other things are possible, even if they are not 'right', such as finding a way to 'tap into' something of the Secret Fire.