Melkor's thing, or at least part of it, is 'the extremes of heat and cold', so it makes complete sense to me to build Angband into a mountain, so that the peaks can be icy cold and the deep, dark recesses can be filled with lava. An unnamed fortress of Morgoth located in the northern wastes, where Galadriel and her elves discover an ice troll - and probably some other sign of emerging evil - early in the first episode. Ice is definitely a motif we can play with for Angband. They were black and desolate and exceedingly lofty and smoke issued from their tops, dark and foul upon the northern sky. Barad-Dur on the other hand is not placed in a cold place. A complicating factor is that at the time LotR was written, and the geography of the Third Age was designed, Utumno was actually not a separate fortress at all, but rather Angband was built on the ruins of Utumno following Melkor's return from destroying the Trees.
But above this gate, and behind it even to the mountains, he piled the thunderous towers of Thangorodrim, that were made of the ash and slag of his subterranean furnaces, and the vast refuse of his tunnellings. Beneath Ered Engrin he made a great tunnel, which issued south of the mountains and there he made a mighty gate. There are still nameless beings of evil which gnaw on the world far below the surface that the Flood of Beleriand did not eradicate. Since most of Tolkien's tales of the Elder Days take place in Valinor and Beleriand, the second fortress, Angband, is the more prominently featured of the two. Later, after the Darkening of Valinor, the Dark Lord (now known to the Eldar as Morgoth) returned to Middle-Earth and ruled from Angband, which had originally been a secondary outpost of Utumno. However, while the Valar had focused on destroying. Utumno was the older and greater fortress, but it was destroyed by the Valar in the War for Sake of the Elves. Behind the walls of Ered Engrin in the west, where they bent back northwards, Melkor built another fortress, as a defence against assault that might come from Valinor and when he came back to Middle-earth, as has been told, he took up his abode in the endless dungeons of Angband, the Hells of Iron, for in the War of the Powers the Valar, in their haste to overthrow him in his great stronghold of Utumno, did not wholly destroy Angband nor search out all its deep places. Nonetheless, the Valars attack succeeded in capturing Morgoth and destroying his main stronghold Utumno. And Melkor made also a fortress and armoury not far from the. Angband was an outlying fortress built to protect Utumno from any attacks by the Valar. In the north of the world Melkor had in the ages past reared Ered Engrin, the Iron Mountains, as a fence to his citadel of Utumno and they stood upon the borders of the regions of everlasting cold, in a great curve from east to west. Utumno, Sindarin Udn ( Gandalf in Mordor named the Balrog 'Flame of Udn '), a name afterwards used of the deep dale in Moria between the Morannon and the Isenmouths.
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