Melkor passed unseen to the south, and came upon the great spider Ungoliant, which he promised to satisfy her unrelenting hunger, so she and Melkor together came back to Valinor, intending to destroy the Trees. Feanor, knew what he was up to and saw Melkor’s greed, refused him and shut the doors of Formenos in the face of Arda’s mightiest being. After a time, he went to Formenos and struck a deceitful friendship to Feanor, as Melkor was only after the Silmarils. Though perturbed, they let the situation continue until Feanor threatened his brother Fingolfin at which point the Valar summoned him to the Ring of Doom in Valinor to explain his unlawful actions.įeanor’s testimony revealed the lies of Melkor, and Tulkas immediately left the Ring of Doom to recapture him. For their part, the Valar remained unaware of Melkor’s work, and saw Feanor as the source of the Noldor’s unrest.
Though he hated and feared Melkor, his overwhelming pride caused him to be the most vocal of the Noldor in expressing discontent. Chief amongst the disgruntled Noldor was Feanor, the firstborn son of the Noldor King Finwe. Eventually, a shadow fell upon the Noldor, and they began to openly rebel against the Valar. Due to his carefully crafted lies, many of the Noldor began to believe that the Valar had brought them to Aman so that Men might inherit Middle-earth, taking the lands and the glory that could have been theirs. Over a long period of time he spread lies concerning the intentions of the Valar in bringing the Elves to Aman, telling them, among other things, tales of the coming of Men, the existence of which the Valar had not revealed to the Elves. Of all the three primary groups of Elves, he found the Noldor to have a perfect balance of usefulness and open ears, and so worked began to work his malice almost exclusively among them. Seeing the bliss of the Elves and remembering that it was for their sake that he was overthrown, Melkor desired above all things to corrupt them. In truth, Melkor was more filled with malice than ever, and began to put his extraordinary cunning to use in devising a way to ruin Aman. However, Tulkas and Ulmo were both very slow to forget Melkor’s evils, and watched him closely. At first, it seemed as though the evil of Melkor had been cured, for all who sought his counsel and aid in that time benefited greatly from it.
Manwe was just unable to comprehend the evil of Melkor, so Manwe ordered him to be released. Also, the Valar didn’t capture or destroy the Balrogs, who gathered at the ruins of Angband who had gone into hibernation awaiting Melkor’s return.Īfter the passing of the Ages, Melkor was brought before Manwe, and played a good act of repentance. I hope you all are enjoying the series! Melkor’s Revengeĭuring the War of the Powers when the Valar took to overthrow Melkor, they in the haste to do so left many of Utumno’s pits and vaults unexplored, and Sauron was still roaming the lands as well. Last week if you remember we left off with Melkor being captured and held for three ages in the Halls of Mandos.
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