This is a from away sight of the land of mordor, in the middle stands mount Doom, threatening the whole Middle Earth. This is a description of the surrounding areas: Mists curled and smoked from dark and noisome pools. The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. Far away, now almost due south, the mountain- walls of Mordor loomed, like a black bar of rugged clouds floating above a dangerous fog- bound sea