Race:Valarian
Alignment:Evil
Age:Unknown
Height:Unknown
Weight:Unknown
The name Morgoth was given in Middle-Earth to
Melchar of Valinor whose temptation and fall during
the Elder Days initiated a series of lasting and
profounly tragic consequences for the world as a whole.
His desire for the three Silamrils created by
the High-Elves led him to commit acts of the greatest
wickedness, which forever blighted the lives of mortals,
Elves, and the Valar themselves. In the end, after gaining
many victories in Middle Earth, he was destroyed by
a host of the Valar and cast into the Void forever.
Chief of the causes which contributed to Morgoth's fall
was the creation by Feanor of the three Silmarilli, three
great jewels which captured and preserved the light
from the Two Trees of Valinor. The Vala was consumed
with desire for the Silmarils, and siezing them he
fled to mortal lands, after first poisoning the Two Trees
in his malice. In the north of Middle Earth he made foe
himself a realm, Angband, and to guard it he built the
fortress of Thangorodrim. There he crowned himself with
an iron crown in which were mounted the Silmarils; and
there he guarded his treasures against his enemies.
Chief among his declared foes and Feanors kindred,
the Noldorin High Elves of the underlying lands. Against
the command of the Valar, many of them forsook the
blessed realm and followed Morgoth back to middle earth
to take the great jewels back from him by force. In
Middle Earth, they allied themselves with other elves
and men and built cities and fortresses within Morgoth's
claimed domain. War ensued, And for many elven lives
the struggle for the Silmarils continued, yet only one
was regained and it was purchased at a prodigious cost
in lives of elves and men. It is known that Morgoth was
descomfited at least once during the war of the Great
Jewels by Beren and Luthien-Yet apart from the loss of
a single Silmaril, his victory seems to have been complete.
His specially bred armies of Orcs and Trolls, augmented
by Dragons, invaded Beleriand and captured the High Elven
cities of Nargothrond and Gondolin. The Elves fled or
hid themselves or were destroyed in the Great Darkness
that followed Morgoth's victory.Nonetheless eventually
a single ship, bearing an ambassador from Middle Earth
arrived on the shores of the Undying Lands, guided
by the light of the recovered Silmaril; and the
representations which were then made brought about the
mustering of the Valar and their intervention against the
Enemy. The blow struck by this host against Thangorodrim
obliterated the region and brought about severe
disturbances of the land and the seas, inundating a
sizeable part of north western Middle Earth. Morgoth
was annihilated but yet his example was to have lasting consequences,
for not even the mightiest blow could destroy the evil
now awake in Middle Earth. Although Morgoth's followers
were for the most part overwhelmed with Angband, many
of the creatures he had created lived on. And at least
one of his chief servants survived-later to become
Sauron the Great, Lord of Mordor. After his being
reawakened Morgoth took steps to rebuild his ruined
keep of Thangorodrim and put under his command once
again the host of evils that he had previously unleashed
upon Middle Earth. The now concentrated power of Sauron
and Morgoth combined are greater in might than ever before
and it will take a mighty force indeed to remove them
from the world once again.