Melkor tried to ‘ convert ’ Ossë, and he almost got him, but Uinen saved Ossë and he remains more or less faithful to Ulmo, though he still loves a cracking good storm and is not to be trusted.

Melkor the Dark: The Noldor no longer call him Melkor ; rather, they call him ‘ Morgoth ’ (‘ Black Enemy ’, or possibly ‘ Dreadful Dark ').

The first Ainu to be named in the histories, Melkor (‘ Arises in Might ’) is described as the most powerful of the Ainur and as knowing much of Ilúvatar ’ s thoughts, including something of each of the primary themes that prefigure the other Ainur.

When the choir of the Ainur finally embark on the fully collaborative elaboration of Ilúvatar ’ s grand plan, Melkor participates with all the others, yet he stands forth and inserts his very different thematic adornments, which disrupts the harmony.

) But, despite Melkor ’ s best efforts to mar and utterly overthrow the Great Music, his discordant music ’ s " most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven into its own solemn pattern.

The Great Music of the Ainur progresses thus: Ilúvatar introduces a First Theme to the choir of the Ainur and Melkor ‘ spoils ’ it, with some other Ainur starting to twist their music to Melkor's theme.

As the Ainur gaze out on this preview, Melkor sees now in detail how even his most private ideas and themes, even his most disruptive and destructive efforts, in the end serve only to fully elaborate Ilúvatar ’ s master plan, design, theme and will.

Melkor, who was then the most powerful of the Ainur, broke the harmony of the music, until Ilúvatar began first a second theme, and then a third theme, which the Ainur could not comprehend since they were not the source of it.

A Hunter of evil beasts and a tree-lover, Oromë wages war on Melkor.

After the destruction of the Two Trees by Melkor, she wept on their remains, cleansing the filth of Ungoliant, and helping to nurture the fruit and the flower that became the Sun and the Moon.

Valinor was established on the western continent Aman when Melkor ( a Vala later named Morgoth, " the black foe ", by the Elves ) destroyed their original home on the island Almaren.

Melkor had come back to Valinor as a prisoner, and after three Ages, was released on the mistaken theory that the evil had been forced out of him.

But Manwë's messenger said also that if they choose to leave and to fight Melkor on their own, the Valar would not help them and that they would suffer great pain and grief on their journey.

In the 30th anniversary issue of Dragon Magazine, it was revealed that Diesel had a fake tattoo of his character's name, " Melkor ", on his stomach while filming xXx.

* 4550-Varda finishes her work on the Great Stars, setting the Sickle of the Valar in the north as a challenge to Melkor.

* 4590-The Valar march to war against Melkor on behalf of the Elves.

Melkor destroyed the Two Trees of Valinor with the help of Ungoliant ( bringing an endless night to Valinor ), and fled back to Middle-earth, to his other stronghold, Angband.

But Melkor had yet other designs to accomplish.

Melkor had then stolen the Silmarils, as well as the other lesser jewels Fëanor had created.

* Melkian, named after the rebellious god Melkor or Morgoth, is the origin in the First Age of the many tongues used by the Orcs and other evil beings.

Tulkas will wrestle with him, but it will be by the hand of Túrin that finally death and destruction will be dealt to Melkor.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Angband ( Sindarin for ' iron prison ') is the name of the fortress of Melkor, constructed before the First Age, located in the Iron Mountains in the enemy's land Dor Daedeloth north of Beleriand.

After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age ( which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion ) the Edain, those Men who had aided the Elves in their war against Melkor were given Númenor, a new small continent of their own, free from the evil and sadness of Middle-earth.

Between the two, Melkor is ‘ mightier ’, but Manwë is closer to Ilúvatar and better understands His plan.

Melkor is jealous of Aulë, though the two are very similar: they both love to make things.

But Aulë is faithful to Eru and understands how his ' creations ' belong ultimately to Eru, while Melkor is left making twisted imitations that can never attain independent being.

Melkor is introduced, and the Ainur begin their Chorus.

Ilúvatar then proposes a Third Theme that Melkor attempts to corrupt through sheer force of volume of his own, but the power of the Third Theme is in the very subtlety that Melkor's lacks, and thus he never succeeds.

Melkor is shown that his private themes ( as Melkor thought them ) are in fact elements of that plan / design / will and " tributary to glory.

As Aulë is a smith, he is the Vala most similar in thought and powers to Melkor, in that they each gloried in the fashioning of artful and original things.

Arda Marred ( Quenya, Arda Hastaina ) is the name given to the world as it is: the world after the wars of the Valar and Melkor, and the dispersing of Melkor's fëa in the entire world.

In the earliest drafts of " The Fall of Gondolin ", the Lost Tale that is the basis for The Silmarillion, Morgoth ( here called Melkor ) sends mechanical war machines in the form of dragons against the city ; some even serve as armoured personnel carriers for Orcs.

It is said in The Silmarillion ( page 47 ) " But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty.

Yet it is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved ; and thus Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest of foes.

" Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved ; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes .... This it may be was the vilest deed of Melkor, and the most hateful to Ilúvatar.

And it was after this that he stated that he would not give up the Silmarils of his own free will ; if the Valar forced him, he said, they would be no better than Melkor.

However, he did not have a clear idea of what the Children of Ilúvatar would be like, and because of the presence of the chaos caused by Melkor, Aulë made the Dwarves strong and unyielding, and not willing to endure the domination of others, as well as embodying some of his values and desires for Middle-earth.

Melkor taught them speech and as they bred they inherited this ; and they had just as much independence as have, say, dogs or horses of their human masters.

" Some of these things may have been delusions and phantoms but some were no doubt shapes taken by the servants of Melkor, mocking and degrading the very forms of the children.

But always among them ( as special servants and spies of Melkor, and as leaders ) there must have been numerous corrupted minor spirits who assumed similar bodily shapes.

The Children of Ilúvatar ( Elves and Men ) are described as existing as two parts: they have a " spirit " or " soul " called fëa, and a body or hröa which is made out of the matter of Arda ( erma ); for this reason hröar are Marred ( or, using another expression by Tolkien himself, contain a " Melkoringredient "), and this explains also why it was easier for Melkor and his servants to seduce Men rather than Elves, because mannish fëar have much less control of their hröar.