Melkor tried again to convince Fëanor of them, but Fëanor realised that Melkor's true goal was to obtain the Silmarils, " and he shut the doors of his house in the face of the mightiest of all the dwellers in Eä.

Melkor, though he also enters the Earth, loses the title ‘ Vala ’.

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

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

He develops impatience with the schoolish process of thematic elaboration: like a precocious child, Melkor begins thinking of certain musical ideas and themes as being ‘ all his own ’, and he feels compelled to develop them apace.

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.

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.

Melkor ’ s music, on the other hand, is said to have been " loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated … And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice … " ( Ibid.

) 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.

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.

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 the Great Music stops, Ilúvatar promptly praises Melkor, chastises him, and then leaves the Ainur for time to their own thoughts.

Sauron encourages the Númenóreans to cast aside their traditional reverence for Eru Ilúvatar and to take up the worship of Melkor, or Morgoth, Sauron's former master, and make human sacrifices to him.

When the evil Vala Melkor first began to create his discord, Varda saw his mind, and rejected him.

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.

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.

Fëanor then, driven by the desire of vengeance, rebelled against the Valar and made a speech before the Noldor, persuading them to leave Valinor, follow Melkor to Middle-earth and wage war against him for the recovery of the Silmarils.

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.

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.

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 Númenor's last years, the powerful but elderly King Ar-Pharazôn, who had become " frightened of old age ", was persuaded by Sauron that Ilúvatar was a lie invented by the Valar, and seduced him to the worship of Melkor, first in secret and then openly.

* 1500-Tulkas arrives, the last of the Valar to descend into Arda: Melkor runs from him and hides in the halls of Eä.

* 4990-Fëanor, deceived by Melkor, draws arms against his brother and is banished from Tirion: his father, Finwë, and many of the Noldor follow him in exile to Formenos.

The story presented Melkor seducing the first Men by making them worship him instead of Eru Ilúvatar, leading to the loss of the " Edenic " condition of the human race.

Learning of this, the Valar and the Maiar came into Middle-earth and, in the War of Powers, defeated Melkor and brought him captive to Valinor.

Bitter at the Valar's inactivity, Fëanor and his house left to pursue Melkor, cursing him with the name " Morgoth ".

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.

Sauron escapes capture and remains in Angband, breeding Orcs and Trolls for Melkor.

" Melkor had corrupted many spirits — some great as Sauron, or less as Balrogs.

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.

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

Many of the Ainur, including Melkor, become enamoured of the Earth, though Melkor still wants to dominate it and the Children.

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 ".

He swore a terrible oath to pursue Melkor and claimed the title of the High King ; but though the greater part of the Noldor still held Fingolfin as King, they followed Fëanor to be not separated from their kin.

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.

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

At this time, the Faithful ( who still worshipped Eru Ilúvatar ), were persecuted openly by those called the King's Men, and were sacrificed in the name of 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.

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.