Oct 14, 2022 · Morgoth at the time of the War of the Jewels had become permanently ‘incarnate’: for this reason he was afraid, and waged the war almost entirely by means of devices, or of subordinates and dominated creatures.-Morgoth's Ring: Notes on Motives in the Silmarillion. I don't think this is quite accurate though:

Sep 13, 2020 · The language used to describe the Valinoran forces in the War of Wrath ("The Host of the Valar" and "The Might of the Valar") seems to imply some form of participation by the Valar, but parallel language (particularly "The Host of Morgoth") is used elsewhere in the same text to refer to armies doing Morgoth's will and imbued with some his power ...

In one of the most famous stories of the First Age, Fingolfin challenged Morgoth to single combat, and the two engaged in an epic duel. Despite being greatly outmatched in terms of raw power, Fingolfin managed to wound Morgoth several times, including delivering a blow to Morgoth's foot that left him permanently crippled.

In it, Morgoth figures out how to break through the Doors of Night and return to the world, and a final battle will be fought. The Valar will fight with the elves, dwarves, men, and all the races of Arda against the evils of Morgoth, and he will finally be destroyed, the Silmarils recovered from the depths of the world and their light used to ...

Morgoth used his power to corrupt and destroy, bringing all sorts of evils into the world. Even after his exile, those evils survived long after, and will still continue long after Sauron's death. Where Sauron invested his energy into rings he and others wore, Morgoth sowed his power into the very lands of Middle Earth.

Sep 14, 2021 · Morgoth can't remove Turin's free will, but his power can create ill events to 'tempt' Turin to make bad decisions (just as Beleg's unfortunate death pushed Turin to fall further into blind wrath: leading to the fall of Nargothrond). At one stage Morgoth fears Turin has escaped his curse - so clearly the real power/final say lies with Turin.

Morgoth perverted lots of things and people, with unconsidered benefits/joy coming out of it (the "intemperate heats and colds" making clouds and rain and ice out of Illuvatar's elemental water; Beren and Luthien's children and bloodline, for example) but Turin, the pinnacle of human achievement in some ways, faced a life of misery and sorrow ...

Tolkien very much wrote Melkor/Morgoth as a Lucifer/Satan figure, even going so far as to describe Morgoth and Sauron's actions as an "absolute Satanic rebellion" (Letter #156). Scholars often compare Morgoth to Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost , and interestingly, Sauron has been compared to Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula , which really ...

Mar 12, 2024 · The difficulty with this scenario is you can't possibly separate Morgoth's return from the seismic response it would provoke from the Valar. The war of wrath made it pretty clear they no longer considered Morgoth to be a problem for the inhabitants of middle earth to deal with and they have Earendil specifically patrolling the sky to make sure ...

Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away...; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands. But at the last the King grew weary, and Morgoth bore down his shield upon ...