LotR -- Book 4 - Chapter 03 - The Black Gate Is Closed

[davem]

Originally Posted by Essex

come to think of it, how do gandalf and elrond know this - or was it an educated guess?)

I still stick to the idea that it was the fact that the fires of Orodruin welled up from the heart of the earth - the very place where Eru had sent the Secret Fire to 'dwell'. therefore it was actually a 'Holy' place, misused by Sauron, but that its 'holiness' could overcome the power put into it, therefore it had to be brought to that one particular place.

This seems to me to tie in with what we've been discussing on the 'Morgoth' thread, about the way Eru incorporated Melkor's themes into the Ainulindale, yet could state that those themes still 'had their uttermost source' in Him...