What Sauron Feared: Why Mount Doom Was Unguarded | Tolkien Explained
What was Sauron afraid of? Why was Mount Doom left unguarded? This deep dive traces six thousand years of Sauron's fear, from the Númenórean ships that made him raise Barad-dûr to the day he walked out of that tower at Umbar and knelt to Ar-Pharazôn.Every one of those fears was justified. When Eru drowned Númenor, Sauron drew the wrong lesson: that the Valar had withdrawn — in Tolkien's phrasing in Morgoth's Ring, he had ceased to fear God's action in Arda. He hunted Isildur's heir across two thousand years, and Aragorn, in The Lord of the Rings, proved him right.The one thing he could never…
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