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The sketch of Orodruin (Mount Doom) was done on a rejected page of the manuscript of The Return of the King, Book VI, Chapter 3, Mount Doom. In the original the tongue of flame at the cone of the mountain is coloured red, and beneath the words visible in the reproduc-tion is written 'Mt Doom from the North'. In this sketch is seen the 'long sloping causeway that led up on to the Mountain's eastern side', carrying Sauron's Road from Barad-dur up to the dark entrance of the Sammath Naur, the Chambers of Fire. It was published as an inset to the painting of Barad-dur in The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977.
The painting shows a door on the eastern side of the fortress with Mount Doom to the westward. It was published in The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendars 1973 and 1974, and again in The Lord of the Rings Calendar 1977 in a slightly enlarged and truncated reproduction together with the sketch of Orodruin as an inset.
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