Morgoth

Morgoth was doubtlessly the mightiest of the Valar, as well as the dawn of evil - the beginner of discord and first domineering overlord of most forces of Darkness in Middle-earth: the begetter or inspiration of the many wicked works that would outlast him.

Envious of the beautiful designs of others and bitter that he could not overcome his nature as a creation and not a demiurge, Morgoth sowed sowed disharmony in the Music of the Ainur and defied the power of Ilúvatar, helping mar Arda forever. Become now an utter nihilist, the sole object of his will was the spoiling of all that he could not possess, or fashion on his own. When Morgoth's presence threatened the welfare of the Elves, the Valar descended to Middle-earth and in the subsequent battle seized him.

But Morgoth would eventually escape captivity and return to Middle-earth, where he summoned his untamed hordes to his beck and call once more, plotting the ruin of the Elven realms. But he could not hope to war with both Middle-earth's denizens and the host of the Valar and was thus defeated. His bodily shape broken, the maimed and shackled Morgoth was then thrown into the nothingness of the Void, namely leaving his former lieutenant Sauron to follow in his footsteps.

Appearances

 * The History of Middle-earth series
 * The Book of Lost Tales Part One
 * The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
 * The Lays of Beleriand
 * The Shaping of Middle-earth
 * The Lost Road and Other Writings
 * Sauron Defeated
 * Morgoth's Ring
 * The Peoples of Middle-earth
 * The War of the Jewels
 * The Nature of Middle-earth
 * The Great Tales
 * Beren and Lúthien
 * The Children of Húrin
 * The Fall of Gondolin