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href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мелкор – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мелкор" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkor" title="Melkor – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Melkor" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3rgoth" title="Mórgoth – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mórgoth" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figuren_in_Tolkiens_Welt#Melkor" title="Figuren in Tolkiens Welt – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Figuren in Tolkiens Welt" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B8" title="Μόργκοθ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μόργκοθ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkor" title="Melkor – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Melkor" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkor" title="Melkor – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Melkor" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AA" title="مورگوت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مورگوت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkor" title="Melkor – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Melkor" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%A5%B4%EA%B3%A0%EC%8A%A4" title="모르고스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="모르고스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%AA%27" title="מורגות' – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מורגות'" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%92%E1%83%9D%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="მორგოთი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მორგოთი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgotas" title="Morgotas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Morgotas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgoth" title="Morgoth – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Morgoth" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li 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R. R. Tolkien">Tolkien</a></i> character</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Aliases</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Melkor (originally)</li> <li>Arun (in the old tales of the Númenóreans)</li> <li>Moringotto</li> <li>Bauglir</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Race</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Valar_in_Middle-earth" class="mw-redirect" title="Valar in Middle-earth">Valar</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Book(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin" title="The Children of Húrin">The Children of Húrin</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien" title="Beren and Lúthien">Beren and Lúthien</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Gondolin" title="The Fall of Gondolin">The Fall of Gondolin</a></i><br /><i><a href="/wiki/Morgoth%27s_Ring" title="Morgoth's Ring">Morgoth's Ring</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Morgoth Bauglir</b> (<span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ˈmɔrɡɔθ<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈbau̯ɡlir]</a></span>; originally <b>Melkor</b> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[ˈmɛlkor]</a></span>) is a character, one of the godlike <a href="/wiki/Vala_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vala (Middle-earth)">Valar</a> and the primary antagonist of <a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Tolkien's legendarium">Tolkien's legendarium</a>, the mythic epic published in parts as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin" title="The Children of Húrin">The Children of Húrin</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien" title="Beren and Lúthien">Beren and Lúthien</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Gondolin" title="The Fall of Gondolin">The Fall of Gondolin</a></i>. </p><p>Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but he turns to darkness and is renamed Morgoth, the primary antagonist of <a href="/wiki/Arda_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arda (Middle-earth)">Arda</a>. All evil in the world of <a href="/wiki/Middle-earth" title="Middle-earth">Middle-earth</a> ultimately stems from him. One of the <a href="/wiki/Maia_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Maia (Middle-earth)">Maiar</a> of <a href="/wiki/Aul%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Aulë">Aulë</a> betrays his kind and becomes Morgoth's principal lieutenant and successor, <a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a>. </p><p>Melkor has been interpreted as analogous to <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a>, once the greatest of all God's angels, <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a>, but fallen through <a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Pride" title="Seven deadly sins">pride</a>; he rebels against his creator. Morgoth has been likened, too, to <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fallen_angel" title="Fallen angel">fallen angel</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>, again a Satan-figure. <a href="/wiki/Tom_Shippey" title="Tom Shippey">Tom Shippey</a> has written that <i>The Silmarillion</i> maps the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a> with its creation and its fall, even Melkor having begun with good intentions. <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Burns" title="Marjorie Burns">Marjorie Burns</a> has commented that Tolkien used the Norse god <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a> to create aspects of several characters, the wizard <a href="/wiki/Gandalf" title="Gandalf">Gandalf</a> getting some of his good characteristics, while Morgoth gets his destructiveness, malevolence, and deceit. <a href="/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger" title="Verlyn Flieger">Verlyn Flieger</a> writes that the central temptation is the desire to possess, something that ironically afflicts two of the greatest figures in the legendarium, Melkor and <a href="/wiki/F%C3%ABanor" title="Fëanor">Fëanor</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Name">Name</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name <i>Morgoth</i> is <a href="/wiki/Sindarin" title="Sindarin">Sindarin</a> (one of Tolkien's <a href="/wiki/Fictional_language" title="Fictional language">invented languages</a>) and means "Dark Enemy" or "Black Foe".<sup id="cite_ref-Morgoth's_Ring_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morgoth's_Ring-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Bauglir</i> is also Sindarin, meaning "Tyrant" or "Oppressor".<sup id="cite_ref-Etymologies_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Etymologies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Morgoth Bauglir" is thus an <a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">epithet</a>. His name in <i><a href="/wiki/Ainulindal%C3%AB" title="Ainulindalë">Ainulindalë</a></i> (the <a href="/wiki/Creation_myth" title="Creation myth">creation myth</a> of Middle-earth and first section of <i>The Silmarillion</i>) is <i>Melkor</i>, which means "He Who Arises in Might" in Quenya.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Etymologies_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Etymologies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This too is an epithet, since he, like all the Valar, had another <a href="/wiki/True_name" title="True name">true name</a> in <a href="/wiki/Vala_(Middle-earth)#Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Vala (Middle-earth)">Valarin</a> (in the <a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Tolkien's legendarium">legendarium</a>, the language of the Valar before the beginning of Time), but this name is not recorded. The Sindarin equivalent of <i>Melkor</i> is <i>Belegûr</i>, but it is never used; instead, a deliberately similar name, <i>Belegurth</i>, meaning "Great Death", is employed.<sup id="cite_ref-VolXII_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VolXII-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another form of his name is Melko, simply meaning "Mighty One".<sup id="cite_ref-Morgoth's_Ring_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morgoth's_Ring-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like <a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a>, he has a host of other titles: <a href="/wiki/Dark_Lord" class="mw-redirect" title="Dark Lord">Lord of the Dark</a>, the Dark Power of the North, the Black Hand, and Great Enemy. The <a href="/wiki/Edain" class="mw-redirect" title="Edain">Edain</a>, the Men of <a href="/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor" title="Númenor">Númenor</a>, call him the Dark King and the Dark Power; the Númenóreans corrupted by Sauron call him the Lord of All and the Giver of Freedom. He is called "Master of Lies" by one of the Edain, Amlach.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Melkor is renamed "Morgoth" when he destroys the <a href="/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor" title="Two Trees of Valinor">Two Trees of Valinor</a>, murders <a href="/wiki/Finw%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Finwë">Finwë</a>, the High King of the <a href="/wiki/Noldor" title="Noldor">Noldor</a> Elves, and steals the <a href="/wiki/Silmaril" class="mw-redirect" title="Silmaril">Silmarils</a> in the <a href="/wiki/First_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="First Age">First Age</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Unchaining_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unchaining-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Flight_of_the_Noldor_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flight_of_the_Noldor-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fictional_history">Fictional history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fictional history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ainulindalë_and_Valaquenta"><span id="Ainulindal.C3.AB_and_Valaquenta"></span><i>Ainulindalë</i> and <i>Valaquenta</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ainulindalë and Valaquenta"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the creation of <a href="/wiki/Cosmology_of_Tolkien%27s_legendarium#Eä" title="Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium">Eä</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arda_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arda (Middle-earth)">Arda</a> (The Universe and the World), Melkor is the most powerful of the <a href="/wiki/Ainu_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ainu (Middle-earth)">Ainur</a>, the "angelic beings" created by <a href="/wiki/Eru_Il%C3%BAvatar" class="mw-redirect" title="Eru Ilúvatar">Eru Ilúvatar</a>. Melkor, dissatisfied that Eru had abandoned the Void, seeks to emulate his creator and fill the Void with sentient beings. This, however, requires the Flame Imperishable, the <a href="/wiki/Secret_Fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret Fire">Secret Fire</a>, which belongs to Eru alone; Melkor cannot find it. He contends with Eru in the <a href="/wiki/Music_of_the_Ainur" class="mw-redirect" title="Music of the Ainur">Music of the Ainur</a>, introducing themes of his own.<sup id="cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ainulindalë"-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He draws many weaker-willed Ainur to him. Ironically, these attempts do not truly subvert the Music, but elaborate Eru's original intentions: the Music of Eru takes on depth and beauty through the strife and sadness Melkor's disharmonies introduce. Unlike <a href="/wiki/Aul%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Aulë">Aulë</a>, Melkor is too proud to admit that his creations are made possible entirely by Eru. Instead, Melkor aspires to rival Eru.<sup id="cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ainulindalë"-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an early draft, Tolkien has the Elf <a href="/wiki/Noldor#Fictional_history" title="Noldor">Finrod</a> state that "there is nothing more powerful that is conceivable than Melkor, save Eru only".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></i>, Eru Ilúvatar similarly states that "Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor".<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the Great Music stands as template for all of material creation, the chaos introduced by Melkor's disharmonies is responsible for all evil. Everything in Middle-earth is tainted by his influence.<sup id="cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ainulindalë"-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i><a href="/wiki/Morgoth%27s_Ring" title="Morgoth's Ring">Morgoth's Ring</a></i>, Tolkien draws an analogy between the <a href="/wiki/One_Ring" title="One Ring">One Ring</a>, into which <a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a> commits much of his power, and all of Arda – "Morgoth's Ring" – which contains and is corrupted by Melkor's power until the Remaking of the World.<sup id="cite_ref-MR_p._398–401_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MR_p._398–401-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Valaquenta</i> tells how Melkor seduced many of the minor Ainur, the <a href="/wiki/Maiar_in_Middle-earth" class="mw-redirect" title="Maiar in Middle-earth">Maiar</a>, into his service.<sup id="cite_ref-Valaquenta"_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Valaquenta"-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto;"> <caption>Tolkien's comparison of "Morgoth's Ring" with Sauron's <a href="/wiki/One_Ring" title="One Ring">One Ring</a><sup id="cite_ref-MR_p._398–401_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MR_p._398–401-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="width: 60px;">  </th> <th style="width: 275px;"><a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a> </th> <th style="width: 275px;">Morgoth </th></tr> <tr> <th>Action </th> <td>Put much of his power into the <a href="/wiki/One_Ring" title="One Ring">One Ring</a> </td> <td>"Melkor 'incarnated' himself (as Morgoth) permanently"; Transmuted "the greater part of his original 'angelic' powers, of mind and spirit" </td></tr> <tr> <th>Purpose </th> <td>Gain power over the other <a href="/wiki/Great_Rings" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Rings">Great Rings</a>, and over the physical world </td> <td>Gain "a terrible grip upon the physical world", the ability "to control the <i>hroa</i>, the 'flesh' or physical matter, of Arda." </td></tr> <tr> <th>Effect </th> <td>Power "concentrated" in the One Ring </td> <td>Power "disseminated" through "the whole of <a href="/wiki/Middle-earth" title="Middle-earth">Middle-earth</a>" </td></tr> <tr> <th>Outcome </th> <td>Utterly eradicated when the One Ring is destroyed </td> <td>Eradication not possible; probable "irretrievable ruin of <a href="/wiki/Arda_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arda (Middle-earth)">Arda</a>" by fighting Morgoth </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quenta_Silmarillion"><i>Quenta Silmarillion</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Quenta Silmarillion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the Creation, many Ainur enter into <a href="/wiki/E%C3%A4" class="mw-redirect" title="Eä">Eä</a>. The most powerful of them are the <a href="/wiki/Vala_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vala (Middle-earth)">Valar</a>, the Powers of the World; the lesser, the Maiar, act as their followers and assistants. They set about the ordering of the universe and Arda within it, as they understand the themes of Eru. Melkor and his followers enter Eä as well, but he is frustrated that his colleagues do not recognize him as leader of the new realm, despite his great knowledge. In anger and shame, Melkor sets about ruining and undoing whatever the others do.<sup id="cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beginning_of_Days-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Each of the Valar is attracted to a particular aspect of the world. Melkor is drawn to extremes and violence—bitter cold, scorching heat, earthquakes, darkness, burning light. His power is so great that at first the Valar cannot restrain him; he contends with their collective might. Arda is unstable until the Vala <a href="/wiki/Tulkas" class="mw-redirect" title="Tulkas">Tulkas</a> enters Eä and tips the balance.<sup id="cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beginning_of_Days-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg/440px-Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg/660px-Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg/880px-Arda_in_the_Ages_of_the_Lamps.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="492" data-file-height="253" /></a><figcaption>The Spring of Arda was lit by two great lamps, Illuin and Ormal, until Melkor attacked and destroyed them. Based on <a href="/wiki/Karen_Wynn_Fonstad" title="Karen Wynn Fonstad">Karen Wynn Fonstad</a>'s <i>Atlas of Middle-earth</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Driven out by Tulkas, Melkor broods in darkness, until Tulkas is distracted. Melkor destroys the Two Lamps and the Valar's land of Almaren. Arda is plunged into darkness and fire, and Melkor withdraws to Middle-earth. In later versions, Melkor also disperses agents throughout Arda, digging deep into the earth and constructing great pits and fortresses, as Arda is marred by darkness and rivers of fire.<sup id="cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beginning_of_Days-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Valar withdraw into <a href="/wiki/Aman_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aman (Middle-earth)">Aman</a> in the far West. The country where they settle is called <a href="/wiki/Valinor" title="Valinor">Valinor</a>, which they heavily fortify. Melkor holds dominion over Middle-earth from his fortress of <a href="/wiki/Utumno" class="mw-redirect" title="Utumno">Utumno</a> in the North.<sup id="cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beginning_of_Days-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His first reign ends after the Elves, the eldest of the <a href="/wiki/Children_of_Il%C3%BAvatar" class="mw-redirect" title="Children of Ilúvatar">Children of Ilúvatar</a>, awake at the shores of <a href="/wiki/Cuivi%C3%A9nen" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuiviénen">Cuiviénen</a>, and the Valar resolve to rescue them from his malice. Melkor captures some Elves before the Valar attack. He <a href="/wiki/Torture" title="Torture">tortures</a> and corrupts them, breeding the first <a href="/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orc (Middle-earth)">Orcs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Coming_of_the_Elves_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Coming_of_the_Elves-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other versions describe <a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_moral_dilemma" title="Tolkien's moral dilemma">Orcs as corruptions</a> of <a href="/wiki/Men_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Men (Middle-earth)">Men</a>, or as soulless beings animated solely by the will of their evil lord. His fortress Utumno disperses deathly cold and brings on an endless winter in the North; for the sake of the Elves, the Valar wage a seven-year war with Melkor, defeating him after laying siege to Utumno. These battles further mar Arda. Tulkas defeats Melkor, binds him with a specially forged chain, Angainor, and brings him to Valinor. He is imprisoned in the <a href="/wiki/Mandos" class="mw-redirect" title="Mandos">Halls of Mandos</a> for three ages.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon his release, Melkor is paroled to Valinor, though a few of the Valar continue to mistrust him.<sup id="cite_ref-Unchaining_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unchaining-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He pretends humility and virtue, but secretly plots harm toward the Elves, whose awakening he blames for his defeat. The Noldor, most skilled of the <a href="/wiki/Sundering_of_the_Elves" title="Sundering of the Elves">three kindreds of Elves</a> that had come to Valinor, are most vulnerable to his plots, since they are eager for his knowledge. While instructing them, he awakens unrest and discontent among them. When the Valar become aware of this, they send Tulkas to arrest him, but Melkor has already fled. With the aid of <a href="/wiki/Ungoliant" title="Ungoliant">Ungoliant</a>, a dark spirit in the form of a monstrous <a href="/wiki/Spider" title="Spider">spider</a>, he destroys the <a href="/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor" title="Two Trees of Valinor">Two Trees of Valinor</a>, kills <a href="/wiki/Finw%C3%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Finwë">Finwë</a>, the King of the Noldor, and steals the three <a href="/wiki/Silmaril" class="mw-redirect" title="Silmaril">Silmarils</a>, jewels made by Finwë's son <a href="/wiki/F%C3%ABanor" title="Fëanor">Fëanor</a>, filled with the light of the Trees. Fëanor thereupon names him <i>Morgoth</i>, "Black Foe", and the Elves know him by this name alone afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Flight_of_the_Noldor_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Flight_of_the_Noldor-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Angband"></span> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg/440px-Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="372" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg/660px-Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg/880px-Sketch_Map_of_Beleriand.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1686" data-file-height="1426" /></a><figcaption>Sketch map of Beleriand. Morgoth's underground fortress of Angband is beneath the mountains of <a href="/wiki/Thangorodrim" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangorodrim">Thangorodrim</a> at the top. The <a href="/wiki/Ered_Luin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ered Luin">Ered Luin</a> on the right of the map are on extreme left of the <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Middle-earth" title="Geography of Middle-earth">map of Middle-earth</a>, marking the part of Beleriand not destroyed at the end of the <a href="/wiki/First_Age" class="mw-redirect" title="First Age">First Age</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Morgoth resumes his rule in the North of Middle-earth, this time in the half-ruined fortress of Angband. He rebuilds it, and raises above it the volcanic triple peak of <a href="/wiki/Thangorodrim" class="mw-redirect" title="Thangorodrim">Thangorodrim</a>. The Silmarils he sets into a crown of iron, which he wears at all times. Fëanor and most of the Noldor pursue him, along the way slaying their kin the <a href="/wiki/Teleri" class="mw-redirect" title="Teleri">Teleri</a> and incurring the <a href="/wiki/Doom_of_Mandos" class="mw-redirect" title="Doom of Mandos">Doom of Mandos</a>. On arriving in <a href="/wiki/Beleriand" title="Beleriand">Beleriand</a>, the Noldor establish kingdoms and make war on Morgoth. Soon, the Sun and the Moon rise for the first time,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Men awake.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The major battles include the <a href="/wiki/Dagor-nuin-Giliath" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagor-nuin-Giliath">Dagor-nuin-Giliath</a> (Battle Under the Stars, fought before the first rising of the Moon), <a href="/wiki/Dagor_Aglareb" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagor Aglareb">Dagor Aglareb</a> (Glorious Battle),<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Dagor_Bragollach" class="mw-redirect" title="Dagor Bragollach">Dagor Bragollach</a> (Battle of Sudden Flame) at which the Siege of Angband is broken,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the battle of Nírnaeth Arnoediad (Unnumbered Tears) when the armies of the Noldor and the <a href="/wiki/Edain" class="mw-redirect" title="Edain">Men allied with them</a> are routed and the men of the East join Morgoth.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the next several decades, Morgoth destroys the remaining Elven kingdoms, reducing their domain to an island of refugees in the Bay of Balar, and a small settlement at the <a href="/wiki/Mouths_of_Sirion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mouths of Sirion">Mouths of Sirion</a> under the protection of <a href="/wiki/Ulmo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulmo">Ulmo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, the Man <a href="/wiki/Beren" class="mw-redirect" title="Beren">Beren</a> and the Elf <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BAthien" class="mw-redirect" title="Lúthien">Lúthien</a> enter Angband and recover a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown after Luthien's singing sends him to sleep. It is inherited by their granddaughter Elwing, who joins those dwelling at the Mouths of Sirion. Her husband <a href="/wiki/E%C3%A4rendil" class="mw-redirect" title="Eärendil">Eärendil</a>, wearing the Silmaril on his brow, sails across the sea to Valinor, where he pleads with the Valar to liberate Middle-earth from Morgoth.<sup id="cite_ref-Of_Beren_and_Lúthien_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Of_Beren_and_Lúthien-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the ensuing <a href="/wiki/War_of_Wrath" class="mw-redirect" title="War of Wrath">War of Wrath</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beleriand" title="Beleriand">Beleriand</a> is destroyed. Morgoth summons many Men to his side during the fifty-year conflict, the longest and bloodiest in Arda's history. Morgoth is utterly defeated. Thangorodrim is shattered when Eärendil kills the greatest of dragons, <a href="/wiki/Dragon_(Middle-earth)#Ancalagon_the_Black" class="mw-redirect" title="Dragon (Middle-earth)">Ancalagon the Black</a>, who crashes upon it as he falls. The few remaining dragons are scattered, and the few surviving <a href="/wiki/Balrogs" class="mw-redirect" title="Balrogs">Balrogs</a> hide themselves deep within the earth. Morgoth flees into the deepest pit and begs for pardon, but his feet are cut from under him, his crown is made into a collar, and he is chained once again with Angainor. The Valar exile him permanently from the world, thrusting him through the Door of Night into the void until the prophesied Dagor Dagorath, when he will meet his final destruction. But his evil remains, and his will influences all living creatures.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children_of_Húrin"><span id="Children_of_H.C3.BArin"></span><i>Children of Húrin</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Children of Húrin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin" title="The Children of Húrin">The Children of Húrin</a></div> <p>In this more complete version of a story summarized in <i><a href="/wiki/Quenta_Silmarillion" class="mw-redirect" title="Quenta Silmarillion">Quenta Silmarillion</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%BArin" title="Húrin">Húrin</a> and his younger brother Huor are leaders of the House of Hador, one of the three kindred of elf-friends. At <i>Nírnaeth Arnoediad</i> they cover the escape of Turgon to <a href="/wiki/Gondolin" title="Gondolin">Gondolin</a> by sacrificing their army and themselves. Huor is slain, but Húrin is brought before Morgoth alive. As revenge for his aid to Turgon and his defiance, Morgoth curses Húrin and his children, binding Húrin to a seat upon Thangorodrim and forcing him to witness all that happens (using Morgoth's long sight) to his children in the succeeding years. The encounter with Húrin, is set out in more detail than in <i>The Silmarillion</i>, and in a more connected narrative than in <i><a href="/wiki/Unfinished_Tales" title="Unfinished Tales">Unfinished Tales</a></i>. It gives the first allusion to the corruption of Men by Morgoth soon after their awakening, and the assertion by Morgoth of his power over the entire Earth through "the shadow of my purpose".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Lord_of_the_Rings"><i>The Lord of the Rings</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Lord of the Rings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melkor is mentioned briefly in the chapter "A Knife in the Dark" in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i>, where <a href="/wiki/Aragorn" title="Aragorn">Aragorn</a> sings the story of <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BAthien_and_Beren" title="Lúthien and Beren">Tinúviel</a> and briefly recounts the role of Morgoth ("the Great Enemy") in the wider history of the Silmarils.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Development">Development</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early versions of Tolkien's stories, Melkor/Morgoth is not seen as the most powerful of the Valar. He is described as being equal in power to <a href="/wiki/Manw%C3%AB_(Middle-earth)" class="mw-redirect" title="Manwë (Middle-earth)">Manwë</a>, chief of the Valar in Arda.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But his power increases in later revisions of the story until he becomes the most powerful among them,<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in a late essay more powerful than all of the other Valar combined. He develops from a standout among equals into a being so powerful that the other created beings could not utterly defeat him.<sup id="cite_ref-MR_pp._390-393_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MR_pp._390-393-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over time, Tolkien altered both the conception of this character and his name. The name given by Fëanor, Morgoth, was present from the first stories; he was for a long time also called <i>Melko</i>. Tolkien vacillated over the Sindarin equivalent of this, which appeared as <i>Belcha</i>, <i>Melegor</i>, and <i>Moeleg</i>. The meaning of the name also varied, related in different times to <i>milka</i> ("greedy") or <i>velka</i> ("flame").<sup id="cite_ref-Etymologies_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Etymologies-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> translations devised by Tolkien differ in sense: Melko is rendered as <i>Orgel</i> ("Pride") and Morgoth as <i>Sweart-ós</i> ("Black God").<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Morgoth is once given a particular sphere of interest: in the early <i>Tale of Turambar</i>, Tinwelint (precursor of <a href="/wiki/Thingol" title="Thingol">Thingol</a>) names him "the Vala of Iron".<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretation">Interpretation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Satanic_figure">Satanic figure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Satanic figure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Middle-earth" title="Christianity in Middle-earth">Christianity in Middle-earth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hell_and_Middle-earth" title="Hell and Middle-earth">Hell and Middle-earth</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:542px;max-width:542px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:378px;max-width:378px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:211px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Morgoth,_Satan,_and_the_Fall.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg/376px-Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg.png" decoding="async" width="376" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg/564px-Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg/752px-Morgoth%2C_Satan%2C_and_the_Fall.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s Melkor/Morgoth parallels the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer/Satan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:160px;max-width:160px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:211px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg/158px-Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg" decoding="async" width="158" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg/237px-Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg/316px-Morgoth_-_the_first_Dark_Lord.jpg 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">"Morgoth – the first Dark Lord". <a href="/wiki/Middle-earth_artwork" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle-earth artwork">Middle-earth artwork</a> by Outcast, 2008</div></div></div></div></div> <p>Melkor has been interpreted as analogous to <a href="/wiki/Satan" title="Satan">Satan</a>, once the greatest of all God's angels, <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a>, but fallen through <a href="/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Pride" title="Seven deadly sins">pride</a>; he rebels against his creator.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarter2011pt_16_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarter2011pt_16-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tolkien wrote that of all the deeds of the Ainur, by far the worst was "the absolute Satanic rebellion and evil of Morgoth and his satellite Sauron".<sup id="cite_ref-Letter_156_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Letter_156-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John R. Holmes, writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_J._R._R._Tolkien_Encyclopedia" class="mw-redirect" title="The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia">The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia</a></i>, suggests that Melkor's nature resonates with <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fallen_angel" title="Fallen angel">fallen angel</a> (Satan) in <i><a href="/wiki/Paradise_Lost" title="Paradise Lost">Paradise Lost</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2013428–429_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2013428–429-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melkor creates an "iron hell" for his elven slave labourers. His greed for ever more power makes him a symbol for the despotism of modern machinery.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2003222–223_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2003222–223-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tolkien scholar <a href="/wiki/Brian_Rosebury" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Rosebury">Brian Rosebury</a> comments that there is a clear mapping to the Christian myth, with Eru as God, Ainur as angels, and Melkor as Satan; but that the differences are equally striking, as creation is in part mediated by the Ainur.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His rebellion against Eru is creative, as Melkor is impatient for the void of the world to be filled with things. But his creativity becomes destructive, as it is tainted with pride. "His desire to create other beings for his glory" turns into a desire for servants and slaves to follow his own will. This "temptation of creativity" is echoed in Tolkien's work by Melkor's opponent <a href="/wiki/F%C3%ABanor" title="Fëanor">Fëanor</a>, who is prepared to fight a hopeless war to try to regain his prized creations, the Silmarils.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008115_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosebury2008115-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Tolkien_scholar" class="mw-redirect" title="Tolkien scholar">Tolkien scholar</a> <a href="/wiki/Tom_Shippey" title="Tom Shippey">Tom Shippey</a> writes that <i>The Silmarillion</i> is most obviously a <a href="/wiki/Calque" title="Calque">calque</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Genesis" title="Book of Genesis">Book of Genesis</a> (whereas Tolkien's <a href="/wiki/The_Shire" title="The Shire">Shire</a> is <a href="/wiki/A_calque_upon_England" class="mw-redirect" title="A calque upon England">a calque upon England</a>). Shippey quotes Tolkien's friend <a href="/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis">C. S. Lewis</a>, who stated that even Satan was created good;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tolkien has the character <a href="/wiki/Elrond" title="Elrond">Elrond</a> in <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> say "For nothing is evil in the beginning. Even [the Dark Lord] Sauron was not so."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>T 35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shippey concludes that the reader is free to assume "that the exploit of Morgoth of which the Eldar [Elves] never learnt was the traditional seduction of <a href="/wiki/Adam_and_Eve" title="Adam and Eve">Adam and Eve</a> by the [Satanic] <a href="/wiki/Serpents_in_the_Bible" title="Serpents in the Bible">serpent</a>", while the Men in the story are Adam's descendants "flying from <a href="/wiki/Garden_of_Eden" title="Garden of Eden">Eden</a> and subject to the curse of <a href="/wiki/Tower_of_Babel" title="Tower of Babel">Babel</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShippey2005267–268-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Odinic_figure">Odinic figure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Odinic figure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Tolkien scholar <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Burns" title="Marjorie Burns">Marjorie Burns</a> writes in <i><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_Legendarium:_Essays_on_The_History_of_Middle-earth" title="Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth">Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth</a></i> that Morgoth, like all Tolkien's Middle-earth characters, is based on a complex "literary soup". One element of his construction, she states, is the Norse god <a href="/wiki/Odin" title="Odin">Odin</a>. Tolkien used aspects of Odin's character and appearance for the wandering wizard <a href="/wiki/Gandalf" title="Gandalf">Gandalf</a>, with hat, beard, and staff, and a supernaturally fast horse, recalling Odin's steed <a href="/wiki/Sleipnir" title="Sleipnir">Sleipnir</a>; for the Dark Lord <a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a>, with his single eye; for the corrupted white wizard <a href="/wiki/Saruman" title="Saruman">Saruman</a>, cloaked and hatted like Gandalf, but with far-flying birds like Odin's eagles and ravens. In <i>The Silmarillion</i>, too, the farseeing Vala Manwë, who lives on the tallest of the mountains, and loves "all swift birds, strong of wing", is Odinesque. And just as Sauron and Saruman oppose Gandalf in <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>, so the enemy Morgoth gets Odin's negative characteristics: "his ruthlessness, his destructiveness, his malevolence, his all-pervading deceit". Burns compares this allocation to the way that <a href="/wiki/Norse_mythology" title="Norse mythology">Norse myth</a> allots some of Odin's characteristics to the troublemaker god <a href="/wiki/Loki" title="Loki">Loki</a>. Odin has many names, among them "Shifty-eyed" and "Swift in Deceit", and he is equally a god of the Norse underworld, "Father of the Slain". She notes that Morgoth, too, is named "Master of Lies" and "Demon of Dark", and functions as a fierce god of battle.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurns2000219–246_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurns2000219–246-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Embodiment_of_possessiveness">Embodiment of possessiveness</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Embodiment of possessiveness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Tolkien scholar <a href="/wiki/Verlyn_Flieger" title="Verlyn Flieger">Verlyn Flieger</a>, discussing the <a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Middle-earth#Light" title="Christianity in Middle-earth">splintering of the original created light of Middle-earth</a>, likens Melkor/Morgoth's response to the Silmarils to that of Fëanor, who had created those jewels. She states that the central temptation is the desire to possess, and that possessiveness itself is the "great transgression" in Tolkien's created world. She observes that the commandment "Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart" is stated explicitly in <i>The Silmarillion</i>. Flieger compares Tolkien's descriptions of the two characters: "the heart of Fëanor was fast bound to these things that he himself had made", followed at once by "Melkor lusted for the Silmarils, and the very memory of their radiance was a gnawing fire in his heart". She writes that it is appropriately ironic that Melkor and Fëanor, one the greatest of the Ainur, the other the most subtle and skilful of the creative <a href="/wiki/Noldor" title="Noldor">Noldor</a> among the Elves – should "usher in the darkness".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFlieger198399–102_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlieger198399–102-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maedhros" class="mw-redirect" title="Maedhros">Maedhros</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary">Primary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Primary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 28em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Morgoth's_Ring-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Morgoth's_Ring_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Morgoth's_Ring_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, pp. 194, 294</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Etymologies-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Etymologies_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Etymologies_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Etymologies_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1987">Tolkien 1987</a>, "<a href="/wiki/The_Etymologies_(Tolkien)" title="The Etymologies (Tolkien)">The Etymologies</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, Index entry for "Melkor"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-VolXII-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-VolXII_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1996">Tolkien 1996</a> p. 358</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 17 "Of the Coming of Men into the West"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Unchaining-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Unchaining_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Unchaining_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, "Quenta Silmarillion", ch. 6 "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Flight_of_the_Noldor-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Flight_of_the_Noldor_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Flight_of_the_Noldor_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, "Quenta Silmarillion", ch. 9 "Of the Flight of the Noldor"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ainulindalë"-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ainulindalë"_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, "<a href="/wiki/Ainulindal%C3%AB" title="Ainulindalë">Ainulindalë</a>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, p. 322</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, p. 6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MR_p._398–401-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MR_p._398–401_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MR_p._398–401_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, pp. 398–401</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Valaquenta"-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Valaquenta"_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, "Valaquenta"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Beginning_of_Days-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Beginning_of_Days_13-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 1, "Of the Beginning of Days"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Coming_of_the_Elves-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Coming_of_the_Elves_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, pp. 72-73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, pp. 416-421</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 11, "Of the Sun and Moon"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 12, "Of Men"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 13, "Of the Return of the Noldor"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 18, "Of the Ruin of Beleriand"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 20, "Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 22, "Of the Ruin of Doriath"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 23, "Of the Fall of Gondolin"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Of_Beren_and_Lúthien-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Of_Beren_and_Lúthien_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 19 "Of Beren and Lúthien"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, ch. 24, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien2007">Tolkien 2007</a>, ch. 3, "The Words of Húrin and Morgoth"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1954a">Tolkien 1954a</a>, book 1, ch. 11 "A Knife in the Dark"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, "Valaquenta", "Of the Enemies"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1977">Tolkien 1977</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ainulindal%C3%AB" title="Ainulindalë">Ainulindalë</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MR_pp._390-393-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-MR_pp._390-393_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1993">Tolkien 1993</a>, pp. 390-393</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1984">Tolkien 1984</a>, p. 260</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1986">Tolkien 1986</a>, pp. 281-283</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1984b">Tolkien 1984b</a>, "Turambar and the Foalókë", p. 73</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Letter_156-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Letter_156_36-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCarpenter2023">Carpenter 2023</a>, #156 to Robert Murray, S.J., 4 November 1954</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTolkien1954a">Tolkien 1954a</a>, "<a href="/wiki/The_Council_of_Elrond" title="The Council of Elrond">The Council of Elrond</a>"</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Secondary">Secondary</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit 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id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHolmes2013428–429-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHolmes2013428–429_37-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHolmes2013">Holmes 2013</a>, pp. 428–429.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGarth2003222–223-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGarth2003222–223_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFGarth2003">Garth 2003</a>, pp. 222–223.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113_39-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008113_39-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRosebury2008">Rosebury 2008</a>, p. 113.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTERosebury2008115-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTERosebury2008115_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFRosebury2008">Rosebury 2008</a>, p. 115.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurns2000219–246-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurns2000219–246_42-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBurns2000">Burns 2000</a>, pp. 219–246.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFlieger198399–102-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFlieger198399–102_43-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFFlieger1983">Flieger 1983</a>, pp. 99–102.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morgoth&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output 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R. R. Tolkien">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien_bibliography" title="J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography">Bibliography</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle-earth_canon" title="Middle-earth canon">Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Tolkien's legendarium">Legendarium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_Middle-earth" title="Outline of Middle-earth">Outline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In Tolkien's<br />lifetime</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hobbit" title="The Hobbit">The Hobbit</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The Lord of the Rings">The Lord of the Rings</a></i> (1954-55) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring" title="The Fellowship of the Ring">The Fellowship of the Ring</a></i> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Past" title="The Shadow of the Past">The Shadow of the Past</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Council_of_Elrond" title="The Council of Elrond">The Council of Elrond</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Two_Towers" title="The Two Towers">The Two Towers</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Return_of_the_King" title="The Return of the King">The Return of the King</a></i> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Scouring_of_the_Shire" title="The Scouring of the Shire">The Scouring of the Shire</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Tale_of_Aragorn_and_Arwen" title="The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen">The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen</a>"</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Bombadil" title="The Adventures of Tom Bombadil">The Adventures of Tom Bombadil</a></i> (1962)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Posthumous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silmarillion" title="The Silmarillion">The Silmarillion</a></i> (1977) <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ainulindal%C3%AB" title="Ainulindalë">Ainulindalë</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unfinished_Tales" title="Unfinished Tales">Unfinished Tales</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien" title="The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien">The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien</a></i> (1981)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bilbo%27s_Last_Song" title="Bilbo's Last Song">Bilbo's Last Song</a></i> (1990)</li> <li>The three "Great Tales" <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin" title="The Children of Húrin">The Children of Húrin</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien" title="Beren and Lúthien">Beren and Lúthien</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_Gondolin" title="The Fall of Gondolin">The Fall of Gondolin</a></i> (2018)</li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Fall_of_N%C3%BAmenor" title="The Fall of Númenor">The Fall of Númenor</a></i> (2022)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History of<br />composition</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth" title="The History of Middle-earth">History of<br />Middle-earth</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>[1–2] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Lost_Tales" title="The Book of Lost Tales">The Book of Lost Tales</a></i> (1983–84) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_(Tolkien)" title="Ælfwine (Tolkien)">Ælfwine</a></li></ul></li> <li>[3] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lays_of_Beleriand" title="The Lays of Beleriand">The Lays of Beleriand</a></i> (1985)</li> <li>[4] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Shaping_of_Middle-earth" title="The Shaping of Middle-earth">The Shaping of Middle-earth</a></i> (1986)</li> <li>[5] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lost_Road_and_Other_Writings" title="The Lost Road and Other Writings">The Lost Road and Other Writings</a></i> (1987) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Etymologies_(Tolkien)" title="The Etymologies (Tolkien)">The Etymologies</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lhammas" title="Lhammas">Lhammas</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>[6–9] <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="The History of The Lord of the Rings">The History of The Lord of the Rings</a></i> (1988–92) <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Notion_Club_Papers" title="The Notion Club Papers">The Notion Club Papers</a></i></li></ul></li> <li>[10] <i><a href="/wiki/Morgoth%27s_Ring" title="Morgoth's Ring">Morgoth's Ring</a></i> (1993)</li> <li>[11] <i><a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Jewels" title="The War of the Jewels">The War of the Jewels</a></i> (1994)</li> <li>[12] <i><a href="/wiki/The_Peoples_of_Middle-earth" title="The Peoples of Middle-earth">The Peoples of Middle-earth</a></i> (1996)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_D._Rateliff" title="John D. Rateliff">John D. Rateliff</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_The_Hobbit" title="The History of The Hobbit">The History of The Hobbit</a></i> (2007)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_F._Hostetter" title="Carl F. Hostetter">Carl F. Hostetter</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Nature_of_Middle-earth" title="The Nature of Middle-earth">The Nature of Middle-earth</a></i> (2021)</li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Arda" title="History of Arda">Fictional<br />universe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Middle-earth_peoples" title="Middle-earth peoples">Peoples</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_monsters" title="Tolkien's monsters">monsters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ainur_in_Middle-earth" title="Ainur in Middle-earth">Ainur</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maiar" title="Maiar">Maiar</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balrog" title="Balrog">Balrogs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wizards_in_Middle-earth" title="Wizards in Middle-earth">Wizards</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valar" title="Valar">Valar</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragons_in_Middle-earth" title="Dragons in Middle-earth">Dragons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancalagon_the_Black" title="Ancalagon the Black">Ancalagon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smaug" title="Smaug">Smaug</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwarves_in_Middle-earth" title="Dwarves in Middle-earth">Dwarves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagles_in_Middle-earth" title="Eagles in Middle-earth">Eagles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elves_in_Middle-earth" title="Elves in Middle-earth">Elves</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Half-elf" title="Half-elf">Half-elven</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noldor" title="Noldor">Noldor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundering_of_the_Elves" title="Sundering of the Elves">Sundering</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ent" title="Ent">Ents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobbit" title="Hobbit">Hobbits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Men_in_Middle-earth" title="Men in Middle-earth">Men</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beorn" title="Beorn">Beornings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr%C3%BAedain" title="Drúedain">Drúedain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C3%BAnedain" title="Dúnedain">Dúnedain</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orc" title="Orc">Orcs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trolls_in_Middle-earth" title="Trolls in Middle-earth">Trolls</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Middle-earth_characters" title="List of Middle-earth characters">Characters</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>First and Second Ages <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Celebrimbor" title="Celebrimbor">Celebrimbor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E%C3%A4rendil_and_Elwing" title="Eärendil and Elwing">Eärendil and Elwing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elendil" title="Elendil">Elendil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F%C3%ABanor" title="Fëanor">Fëanor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fingolfin" title="Fingolfin">Fingolfin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finw%C3%AB_and_M%C3%ADriel" title="Finwë and Míriel">Finwë and Míriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gil-galad" title="Gil-galad">Gil-galad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%BArin" title="Húrin">Húrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isildur" title="Isildur">Isildur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%BAthien_and_Beren" title="Lúthien and Beren">Lúthien and Beren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melian_(Middle-earth)" title="Melian (Middle-earth)">Melian</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Morgoth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thingol" title="Thingol">Thingol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuor_and_Idril" title="Tuor and Idril">Tuor and Idril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%BArin_Turambar" title="Túrin Turambar">Túrin Turambar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ungoliant" title="Ungoliant">Ungoliant</a></li></ul></li> <li>Third Age <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elrond" title="Elrond">Elrond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galadriel" title="Galadriel">Galadriel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gandalf" title="Gandalf">Gandalf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glorfindel" title="Glorfindel">Glorfindel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goldberry" title="Goldberry">Goldberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gollum" title="Gollum">Gollum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saruman" title="Saruman">Saruman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sauron" title="Sauron">Sauron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Bombadil" title="Tom Bombadil">Tom Bombadil</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Middle-earth" title="Geography of Middle-earth">Places</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>First and Second Ages <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beleriand" title="Beleriand">Beleriand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C3%BAmenor" title="Númenor">Númenor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valinor" title="Valinor">Valinor</a></li></ul></li> <li>Third Age <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bree_(Middle-earth)" title="Bree (Middle-earth)">Bree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esgaroth" title="Esgaroth">Esgaroth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gondor" title="Gondor">Gondor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harad" title="Harad">Harad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isengard" title="Isengard">Isengard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonely_Mountain" title="Lonely Mountain">Lonely Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lothl%C3%B3rien" title="Lothlórien">Lothlórien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirkwood" title="Mirkwood">Mirkwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordor" title="Mordor">Mordor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moria,_Middle-earth" title="Moria, Middle-earth">Moria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rivendell" title="Rivendell">Rivendell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohan,_Middle-earth" title="Rohan, Middle-earth">Rohan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Shire" title="The Shire">The Shire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bag_End" title="Bag End">Bag End</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Objects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mithril" title="Mithril">Mithril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palant%C3%ADr" title="Palantír">Palantír</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Book_of_Westmarch" title="Red Book of Westmarch">Red Book of Westmarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rings_of_Power" title="Rings of Power">Rings of Power</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/One_Ring" title="One Ring">One Ring</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silmarils" title="Silmarils">Silmarils</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_Trees_of_Valinor" title="Two Trees of Valinor">Two Trees of Valinor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_weapons_and_armour_in_Middle-earth" title="List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth">List of weapons and armour</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Analysis</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_and_antiquarianism" title="Tolkien and antiquarianism">Elements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_artwork" title="Tolkien's artwork">Artwork</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_Middle-earth_family_trees" title="Tolkien's Middle-earth family trees">Family trees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraldry_of_Middle-earth" title="Heraldry of Middle-earth">Heraldry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_constructed_by_Tolkien" title="Languages constructed by Tolkien">Languages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%BBnaic" title="Adûnaic">Adûnaic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Speech" title="Black Speech">Black Speech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvish_languages_of_Middle-earth" title="Elvish languages of Middle-earth">Elvish</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Quenya" title="Quenya">Quenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindarin" title="Sindarin">Sindarin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khuzdul" title="Khuzdul">Khuzdul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valarin" title="Valarin">Valarin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westron" title="Westron">Westron</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_maps" title="Tolkien's maps">Maps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_poetry" title="Tolkien's poetry">Tolkien's poetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_scripts" title="Tolkien's scripts">Scripts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cirth" title="Cirth">Cirth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarati" title="Sarati">Sarati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tengwar" title="Tengwar">Tengwar</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Themes_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="Themes of The Lord of the Rings">Themes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anachronism_in_Middle-earth" title="Anachronism in Middle-earth">Anachronism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancestry_as_guide_to_character_in_Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Ancestry as guide to character in Tolkien's legendarium">Ancestry as guide to character</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_in_Middle-earth" title="Architecture in Middle-earth">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Middle-earth" title="Christianity in Middle-earth">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmology_of_Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium">Cosmology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_round_world_dilemma" title="Tolkien's round world dilemma">Round World dilemma</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Death_and_immortality_in_Middle-earth" title="Death and immortality in Middle-earth">Death and immortality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decline_and_fall_in_Middle-earth" title="Decline and fall in Middle-earth">Decline and fall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dreams_and_visions_in_Middle-earth" title="Dreams and visions in Middle-earth">Dreams and visions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Middle-earth" title="Economy of Middle-earth">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/England_in_Middle-earth" title="England in Middle-earth">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmentalism_in_The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="Environmentalism in The Lord of the Rings">Environmentalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evil_in_Middle-earth" title="Evil in Middle-earth">Evil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Great_War_and_Middle-earth" title="The Great War and Middle-earth">First World War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forests_in_Middle-earth" title="Forests in Middle-earth">Forests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_frame_stories" title="Tolkien's frame stories">Frame stories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hell_and_Middle-earth" title="Hell and Middle-earth">Hell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heroism_in_The_Lord_of_the_Rings" title="Heroism in The Lord of the Rings">Heroism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_light_in_Tolkien%27s_legendarium" title="Christian light in Tolkien's legendarium">Light</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luck_and_fate_in_Middle-earth" title="Luck and fate in Middle-earth">Luck and fate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_in_Middle-earth" title="Magic in Middle-earth">Magic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mental_illness_in_Middle-earth" title="Mental illness in Middle-earth">Mental illness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_and_the_modernists" title="Tolkien and the modernists">Modernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_moral_dilemma" title="Tolkien's moral dilemma">Moral dilemma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Middle-earth" title="Music of Middle-earth">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naming_of_weapons_in_Middle-earth" title="Naming of weapons in Middle-earth">Naming of weapons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_courage_in_Middle-earth" title="Northern courage in Middle-earth">Northern courage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Straight_Road" title="Old Straight Road">Old Straight Road</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paganism_in_Middle-earth" title="Paganism in Middle-earth">Paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plants_in_Middle-earth" title="Plants in Middle-earth">Plants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychological_journeys_of_Middle-earth" title="Psychological journeys of Middle-earth">Psychological journeys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quests_in_Middle-earth" title="Quests in Middle-earth">Quests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sound_and_language_in_Middle-earth" title="Sound and language in Middle-earth">Sound and language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_in_Tolkien%27s_fiction" title="Time in Tolkien's fiction">Time</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trees_in_Middle-earth" title="Trees in Middle-earth">Trees</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_impact_on_fantasy" title="Tolkien's impact on fantasy">Tolkien's impact on fantasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influences_on_Tolkien" title="Influences on Tolkien">Influences</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beowulf_and_Middle-earth" title="Beowulf and Middle-earth"><i>Beowulf</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_influences_on_Tolkien" title="Celtic influences on Tolkien">Celtic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_and_the_classical_world" title="Tolkien and the classical world">Classical world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_influences_on_Tolkien" title="Finnish influences on Tolkien">Finnish language and literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_and_the_medieval" title="Tolkien and the medieval">Medieval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_modern_sources" title="Tolkien's modern sources">Modern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien_and_the_Norse" title="Tolkien and the Norse">Norse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philology_and_Middle-earth" title="Philology and Middle-earth">Philology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien" title="Shakespeare's influence on Tolkien">Shakespeare</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_prose_style" title="Tolkien's prose style">Prose style</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tolkien%27s_ambiguity" title="Tolkien's ambiguity">Ambiguity</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_mythology_for_England" title="A mythology for England">A mythology for England</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geographic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlas_of_Middle-earth" title="The Atlas of Middle-earth">The Atlas of Middle-earth</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Journeys_of_Frodo" title="Journeys of Frodo">Journeys of Frodo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Map_of_Middle-earth" title="A Map of Middle-earth">A Map of Middle-earth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations,<br />legacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Illustrating_Middle-earth" title="Illustrating Middle-earth">Artists</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pauline_Baynes" title="Pauline Baynes">Pauline Baynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cor_Blok" title="Cor Blok">Cor Blok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anke_Ei%C3%9Fmann" title="Anke Eißmann">Anke Eißmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brothers_Hildebrandt" title="Brothers Hildebrandt">Brothers Hildebrandt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jenny_Dolfen" title="Jenny Dolfen">Jenny Dolfen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Fairburn" title="Mary Fairburn">Mary Fairburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donato_Giancola" title="Donato Giancola">Donato Giancola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Howe_(illustrator)" title="John Howe (illustrator)">John Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tove_Jansson" title="Tove Jansson">Tove 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title="Howard Shore">Howard Shore</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_film_series" title="Music of The Lord of the Rings film series">Music of <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> film series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_The_Hobbit_film_series" title="Music of The Hobbit film series">Music of <i>The Hobbit</i> film series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Rings_of_Power" title="Music of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power">Music of <i>The Rings of Power</i> TV series</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blind_Guardian" title="Blind Guardian">Blind Guardian</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Nightfall_in_Middle-Earth" title="Nightfall in Middle-Earth">Nightfall in Middle-Earth</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Settings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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