User blog comment:Lord Loss/Discussion of the Week: Volcanoes/@comment-4524480-20120521154838/@comment-4731324-20120522160540

Yeah, I can see how you'd feel like it was Mordor. However, I think I would get that feeling more from the 3rd gen. volcano. The 3rd gen. volcano has a greater sense of scale because of area 9 and the huge drop from area 10. The older volcanoes don't emphasize the scale that well.