Melkor even harbours the desire to externally manifest his ideas ( private ideas, as he thinks them ) and to become a creator of beings himself.

Melkor was impotent to produce any living thing, but skilled in the corruption of things that did not proceed from himself, if he could dominate them.

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.

* c. 3300-Sauron establishes himself as High Priest of Melkor, " Lord of the Dark "; Elendili are openly persecuted and sacrificed to Morgoth

Melkor declared himself emperor and touched off a brutal civil war that had devastating consequences for the Klingon Empire, largely due to the usurper's treacherous and cowardly tactics.

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.

It was built by Melkor ( later called Morgoth ) to guard against a possible attack from Aman by the Valar.

In Tolkien's works, the Dwarves ( in the form of seven patriarchs ) were created during the Years of the Trees ( also known as the Ages of Darkness ), when all of Middle-earth was controlled by the forces of Melkor.

In the First Age, the cunning and malevolent being Sauron had been the chief servant of the evil demigod Melkor ( later called Morgoth ) and he was instrumental in Morgoth's many attempts to become ruler of Middle-earth.

When Melkor returned to Middle-earth from Valinor, now bearing the epithet Morgoth, he was attacked by Ungoliant, a spider-like creature ; and his piercing scream drew the Balrogs out of hiding to his rescue.

He quotes a very late margin note that was not incorporated into the text saying " at most seven " ever existed ; though in the Annals of Aman, written as late as 1958, after the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Melkor still commands " a host of Balrogs ".

But while Aulë strove to be true to the original intent of the Music of the Ainur, and submitted all that he did to the will of Ilúvatar, Melkor wished to control and subvert all things, and was jealous of the creations of others so that he would try to twist or destroy all that they made.

There was long strife between Aulë and Melkor both before and after the creation of Arda.

This world was effectively destroyed by the wars of the Valar and Melkor, and only Valinor still resembled it in part.

She was also one of the few Valar who sided with the release of Melkor from his bondage after the Age of Peace, being compassionate of his suffering yet unaware, as Manwë was, of his unfailing evil.

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.

Later, the Valar heard of the awakening of the Elves in Middle-earth, where Melkor was unopposed.

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.

The Valar learned of this and saw what Melkor had done, but it was too late to stop Melkor.

When Melkor was released from captivity, he fled to Avathar, scaled the mountains with the help of Ungoliant, and wrought destruction in Aman: he persuaded Ungoliant to kill the Two Trees of Valinor and take from them what energy she could to quench her hunger, as Ungoliant ( see also Shelob ) was always hungry.

The first mortal man to succeed in navigating to and passing the Isles of Enchantment was Eärendil, who came to Valinor to seek the aid of the Valar against Melkor, now called Morgoth.

A number of individual Vanyar loved Noldorin princes but none joined the journey into exile: of greatest prestige was Indis of the Vanyar, widow of Finwë, who after her husband was murdered at Formenos by Melkor chose to return to her people with her elder daughter Findis.

But Melkor sowed lies, and in the end the peace in Tirion was poisoned.

Fëanor did not trust Melkor and refused to communicate with him, but was still caught in the evil Vala's plot.

Melkor used Fëanor's anger and pride against him, telling him that his own half-brother Fingolfin was planning to usurp his place as heir to Finwë.

The Valar then learned that Melkor was manipulating Fëanor, and sent Tulkas to capture Melkor, but he had already escaped.

When the ruse was discovered, Chang had to make a choice: fight the fight he had waited for his whole life, or defend his people against the threat Melkor.

Ungoliant aided the evil Vala Melkor in his attack upon the Two Trees of Valinor, draining them of their sap after Melkor had injured them.

Melkor had promised Ungoliant that he would yield anything she wished in return for her aid, but betrayed this promise by attempting to withhold the Silmarils from her.

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.

In later writings they ceased to be creatures, but are instead Maiar, lesser Ainur like Gandalf or Sauron, spirits of fire whom Melkor had corrupted before the creation of the World.

Ulmo had always distrusted Melkor, and the Dark Lord feared the Sea almost as much as he feared Varda, because neither could be tamed.

After being released, he started planting seeds of dissent in the minds of the Elves ( particularly, the Noldor-the Vanyar would not hear him and Melkor considered the Teleri weak ) in Valinor, saying that the Valar had brought them here so that they would control them and claim their lands in Middle-earth as their own and that they were prisoner of the Valar.

* Mori-kwendī had from the beginning a negative sense, implying that these Elves were not so much opposed to the shadows Melkor had put upon Middle-earth.

But Melkor had yet other designs to accomplish.

Messengers from Formenos arrived and told that Finwë the High King of the Noldor had been killed by Melkor ( and so was the first Elf to be slain in Valinor ).

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

There Melkor releases his last and greatest force, the fleet of winged dragons, that had never been seen before, and they drive the Host of the Valar back.

There are various races of orcs ( though with later races of orcs came different physical and non-physical characteristics like increasing tolerance to sunlight ) all identical in their hate for everything that Illuvatar and the Valar had constructed ( including themselves ) to resemble the hate that lay within Melkor.

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.

For Melkor had in his service great numbers of Maiar, who had the power, as their Master, of taking visible and tangible shape in Arda.