I loved your examples, Estelyn. I never realized until you put them together, Mt. Doom essentially is described as a dragon! This may BE Tolkien's best dragon, littlemanpoet! Your last quote, Estelyn, is actually of the end of Barad-Dur-- Sam is watching Sauron's fortress crumble from the door Sammath Naur on Mt. Doom. 'Eyeless prisons' is a fascinating term to use for Sauron's fortress, gates of adament subtly raises the earlier 'proud and bitter crown,' a phrase I love. Then the falling is so reminiscent of the drowning of Numenor. Lovely.
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