This cache is placed in Pace Bend Park, a Travis County Park located approximately 30 miles west of Austin on Lake Travis. The park is open 7 days a week from sunrise to 9pm for day-use visitors with overnight camping available. There is a fee to enter the park. Please be respectful of the posted signs and the other people using the park. This cache is placed in accordance with the guidelines for geocaches by the Travis County Park system.
Mount Doom is your destination. It is the only place that the One Ring can be destroyed and thus end Sauron's power here in Middle Earth. In order to reach Mount Doom, you will need to travel through nine locations through Middle Earth facing the challenges along the way: The Shire, Weathertop, Rivendell, Mines of Moria, Lothlorien, Helm's Deep, Isengard, Minas Tirith, and Minas Morgul. Use the clues you find there to find this cache
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Background
Orodruin, or Mount Doom, is a fictional volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth universe. Located in the heart of the black land of Mordor and approximately 4,500 feet (1.4 km) high, it is the site where the One Ring was originally forged by the Dark Lord Sauron and represents the endpoint of Frodo Baggins's quest to destroy the Ring which is recounted in The Lord of the Rings.
Orodruin is Sindarin for "fiery mountain". The Sindarin equivalent of the name Mount Doom is Amon Amarth, meaning "mountain of fate". Tolkien is reported to have identified Mordor, and in particular a phrase transcribed as "Emyn Anar", with the volcano of Stromboli off Sicily.
When Sauron began searching Middle-earth during the Second Age for a permanent dwelling place, his attention was immediately drawn to Mordor, and especially to Orodruin, whose power he believed he could use to his advantage. He subsequently established his kingdom based around Orodruin and "used the fire that welled there from the heart of the earth in his sorceries and his forging". The most famous of Sauron's creations forged at Mount Doom is the very powerful One Ring, which he made in the fires of the Sammath Naur (or Cracks of Doom), a chasm located deep within the mountain. It is said in The Lord of the Rings that the materials of which the Ring is made are so durable and the enchantments with which it is imbued so powerful that it can only be destroyed in those same Cracks of Doom; even the fire of Ancalagon the Black, greatest of dragons, could not destroy the One Ring.
Orodruin is implied to be far more than just an ordinary volcano; it responds to Sauron's commands and his presence, lapsing into dormancy when he is away from Mordor and becoming active again when he returns. Its activity is also apparently connected to Sauron's personal power. When Sauron is defeated at the end of the Third Age, the volcano erupts violently one final time and then ceases all activity permanently. Minas Morgul.