Morgoth
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Morgoth Bauglir is the primary antagonist of Tolkien's legendarium, the mythic epic by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien and published in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and
"Morgoth – the first Dark Lord". Middle-earth artwork by Outcast, 2008
Valar
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The Valar are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. They are "angelic powers" or "gods" subordinate to the one God. The Ainulindalë describes how some of the Ainur choose to enter th
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…of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. He is briefly mentioned in The Lord of the Rings. Melkor is the most powerful of the godlike Valar, but he turns to darkness and is renamed Morgoth, meaning 'Black foe', by the elf Fëanor. Until the end of the First Age, he remained the primary…
Some critics have noted the similarity of the Valar to the Æsir, the strong and combative Norse gods of Asgard. Painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1817.
Other scholars have likened the Valar to Christian angels, intermediaries between the creator and the created world. Painting by Lorenzo Lippi, c. 1645
Tolkien's Valar behave as a group, so that readers perceive them as a pantheon like the Olympian gods of the Greeks.