Morgoth and Sauron are often compared as the two big bads of The Lord of the Rings, but Sauron has one huge advantage over ...

Not only is Morgoth one of the most powerful characters that J.R.R. Tolkien created, but almost everything bad that happened in Tolkien’s world before the start of The Rings of Power was his fault.

Morgoth was ultimately defeated during the war, and was permanently exiled by the Valar literally outside the world, into what Tolkien described as “the void.” ...

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power opens at the close of a great war: the war against Morgoth, Middle-earth’s dark god, a story that Tolkien only told in The Silmarillion, and how Morgoth vs ...

Sauron’s crown, including in Peter Jackson’s films, is based on Tolkien’s description of Morgoth’s. Since Sauron was his chosen successor, that has always made sense.

So if Morgoth didn’t create orcs, where did they come from? From Ilúvatar, just not the way he made them. And it is that very The Lord of the Rings tale from which The Rings of Power draws Adar ...

Compiled and published posthumously by Tolkien’s son Christopher, it says that “little is known of a certainty,” but it was “held true by the wise” that Morgoth made the orcs “by slow ...

The Radcliffe Camera, part of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Tolkien once had a vision of this structure as a temple to Morgoth, the villain of Middle-earth.

Tolkien was inspired by Norse and Christian mythology to make his own ‘Ragnarök’. Dagor Dagorath would show a battle of epic scale with Morgoth as the protagonist.

In Tolkien's works, Morgoth actually pre-dates Middle-earth. Before he was known as Morgoth, he was Melkor, the most powerful of the angel-like Ainur. Unlike the rest of his kind, ...