I'm a gigantic dolt.....all this time in my entire existence I was wondering "Why would there be a dark mountian called Mount Doom? So comically evil sounding", until I recently learnt its not "Doom" in the English sense we have now, but its original terminology?
Like, it's not literally Doom like how we know of the word Doom in english language.
I'm kinda ashamed to be thinking that of course, the Dark Lord sauron would forge the ring in a generic evil sounding place called Doom. Like, how cliche.
I ONLY just learnt that its name basically means Judgement/fate/Destiny in terms of Tolkien's time.
I think this detail completely makes me recontexualize so much of the final critical moments leading to the Ring's destruction, since it now makes more sense why the fate of the entire Middle Earth rested in this mountain.
As opposed to me simply thinking, "Damn, that mountain was evil and scary".