LOTR: The Rings of Power Has Finally Brought Mordor To Middle Earth

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Throughout the Rings of Power series so far, there have been several glimpses of maps that have shown the Southlands appearing in the lands next to what will later become Gondor and Rohan. But from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Hobbit movies, fans have come to know these lands as the dark place where Sauron and his orcs dwell: Mordor.

The latest installment of the Amazon TV show ended in devastation and ruin, as the orcs plan finally came to fruition, and a large volume of water was dumped into the midst of the volcano seen in the background of Tirharad. And with its subsequent eruption, the huge land-form was proven to be none other than Mount Doom, meaning that Mordor has finally come to Middle Earth.

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Audiences were given a very early glimpse of this from the original trailers of the Rings of Power, which showed Galadriel in the wreckage of a burning village, bathes in red light and thick ashes, and with the lava flowing out of the volcano in the latest storyline, it looks like Tirharad is no more. There has finally been a culmination of several clues dropped over the latest episodes, including the tunnels that the elves were forced into digging, the orcs whose skin burned in sunlight, and the leader Adar, who gave mention of giving his children, the Uruks, a home of their own.

Now, it appears that they have achieved just that, and that the fire and destruction of Tirharad will spread further and further, until the surrounding lands become the recognizably barren wasteland of Mordor from the Peter Jackson movie adaptations. The people will have no choice but to flee into the surrounding lands of Rohan and Gondor to the West, where the