Story Downloaded from Open Scrolls Archive (https://www.openscrolls.net) Title: Eradication (#4180) Author: breemon Chapters: 1 Archive: Tolkien Category: Lord of the Rings (Movieverse) Description: The destruction of Mordor. Originally meant to be book verse but I remembered the scene from the movie. I was there for a second and after that it just would not let go. Published: 04 Feb 2010 Updated: 04 Feb 2010 Warnings: Type: Horror Characters: OC Chapter 1 - Eradication The blackened earth cracked beneath my feet and I could feel every bone in my body hum with the force of it. Afterwards, as I watched Barad-dûr I wondered how it made no noise. Only it did. I felt it in the infinite space between each heartbeat when I thought the next beat wouldn’t come. Heat, great and terrible burned the clothes off my body and started on my skin. I turn, too fast, in time to mark the second I was engulfed by the dying breath of the mountain. Only fitting, I thought, that he’d take us with him. \r\n\r\n ------------------------------------------------------------------ Downloaded from Open Scrolls Archive (https://www.openscrolls.net) on Sun Nov 15, 2026 1:01 am