What is the total area of Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium?
The total area covers roughly 100,000 square miles of desolate terrain.
Questions about Mordor
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When was the One Ring destroyed in Mount Doom during the Third Age?
On the 25th of March the One Ring was destroyed in Mount Doom ending the Third Age.
Which real-world volcanoes did Peter Jackson use to represent Mount Doom in New Zealand?
Peter Jackson represented Mount Doom using two active volcanoes in New Zealand located in Tongariro National Park named Mount Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu.
Why does Sauron control the Black Gate across the pass called Cirith Gorgor?
Sauron constructed the Black Gate across this passage to seal off the entrance while two towers guard the outer side of the gate with Carchost standing to the east and Narchost lying to the west.
How did J. R. R. Tolkien name the fictional land known as Mordor based on linguistic roots?
Within Tolkien's fiction Mordor had two meanings: Black Land in Sindarin and Land of Shadow in Quenya while philologist Helge Fauskanger disputed claims that the name came from Old English morðor meaning mortal sin or murder.