In the Second Age, he was defeated in the War of the Last Alliance by Elves and Men united under kings Gil-galad and Elendil. Why? Melkor in his time was the strongest being of Arda, second only to Eru Iluvatar himself. Him and Sam dragging their asses up the side of that mountain is an all-time feat. Mairon's virtue was his love for order, planning and coordination, disliking confusion and chaos. He created countless evil creatures like orcs, goblins, trolls, and dragons. Eventually he also squandered his power (of being) in the endeavor to gain control of others. His cunning motive is probably best expressed thus. After losing the Ring, it took even longer for him to regain physical form, although, by the War of the Ring, he had regained it. So, as you can see from all this, Morgoth was much stronger than Sauron in his beginnings, but his power diminished by his end, and in that time, Sauron was probably stronger then Morgoth. 2. when Morgoth was defeated by the Valar finally he forsook his allegiance; but out of fear only; he did not present himself to the Valar or sue for pardon, and remained in Middle-earth. Sauron had not served Morgoth, even in his last stages, without becoming infected by his lust for destruction, and his hatred of God (which must end in nihilism). In the First Age, he was attracted to the teachings and methods of Melkor, a fallen Valar who would later become known as Morgoth. Despite being the title character of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is notable in that he never directly appears during the events of the trilogy. ” Sauron did not have anywhere near the power to conquer Middle Earth in the Second Age, that was why he tricked the Elves into helping him. See more ideas about melkor, morgoth, tolkien. The Valar made war on Melkor and captured him, but Sauron escaped. When the Last Alliance arose, he lost again. Sauron also did not really create new evil beings in the way Morgoth did. What follows is one of the most interesting, and important, explanations of the nature of evil I have ever encountered; as exemplified by Tolkien's legendarium and as understood by Tolkien. Also, if Sauron regained the One Ring, he would be unstopable. A passage in The Silmarillion describes him as having a “dreadful presence,” and daunting eyes. The time of Melkor’s greatest power, therefore, was in the physical beginnings of the World; a vast demiurgic lust for power and the achievement of his own will and designs, on a great scale. His battle against Luthien and Huan in The Silmarillion has him taking on no less than four separate shapes: his “normal” shape, presumed to be that of some kind of terrible dark sorcerer, a great wolf, a serpent, and finally a vampire “dripping blood from his throat upon the trees” (“Of Beren and Lúthien,” The Silmarillion). He was once a Vala and the first Dark Lord who was named Morgoth Bauglir in Beleriand and Middle-earth. As was seen in the case of Ar-Pharazon. 3. But like all minds of this cast, Sauron’s love (originally) or (later) mere understanding of other individual intelligences was correspondingly weaker; and thought the only real good in, or rational motive for, all this ordering and planning and organization was the good of all the inhabitants of Arda (even admitting Sauron’s right to be their supreme lord), his ‘plans’, the idea coming from his own isolated mind, became the sole object of his will, and an end, the End, in itself. Morgoth though locally triumphant had neglected most of Middle-earth during the war; and by it he had in fact been weakened: in power and prestige (he had lost and failed to recover one of the Silmarils), and above all in mind. He himself was able to disguise himself by changing shape and taking a fair form. Sauron desired to be a God-King, and was held to be this by his servants, by a triple treachery: 1. Sauron became Morgoth's capable servant, helping him in all the "deceits of his cunning". He turned the Watchers in Cirith Ungol from serving Gondor to serving him. To many he appeared fair, to others terrible; but to some evil.”. Red Wine:-'Together in music, together in life' - Morgoth-'He’s afraid of what I might say' - Sauron. Morgoth & Sauron, Witchking and the Nazgûl, Köln, Deutschland. Among Sauron’s chief powers were deception and disguise: In the First Age Sauron took on many forms. But this is, of course, a simplification of the situation. If you want to see other ‘Who Would Win‘ scenarios follow our link. If he had regained the Ring, he would have been unbeatable. Despite being the title character of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is notable in that he never directly appears during the events of the trilogy. Still, without Gandalf’s help and Eru’s interventions, Sauron would have defeated the West, the Elves would have abandoned Middle Earth and all would have fallen to Sauron’s rule which would probably have continued forever. Morgoth’s chief servants were Maiar he corrupted or monsters he created: Sauron, later the Dark Lord of Mordor and his chief servant; the Balrogs, including Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs and High-Captain of Angband; Glaurung, the Father of Dragons; Ancalagon “the Black”, greatest of the Winged Dragons; Carcharoth, the mightiest wolf that ever lived; Draugluin, Sire of Werewolves; and Thuringwethil, Sauron’s vampire messenger. At the beginning of Time, he was amongst the Ainur who entered into Eä. Morgoth is the oldest of the Lords of Malekor and as opposed to his other two main Lords in Flemeth and Sauron Morgoth is a demonic creature that was formed based on the mind of Melkor within the Fade. It took a Vala, Tulkas, to overpower him (although Fingolfin was later able to hurt him by that point, Morgoth had lost much of his power by spreading it into others and also by taking on physical form for so long and also because he alone was actually afraid). Morgoth lost the ability to shed his physical form and was trapped in the shape of a tall, giant Dark Lord. Philosopher Peter J. Kreeft proposes that Sauron is in fact the main character of The Lord of the Rings, inasmuch as he has the largest significance to the work of good and evil in the story, given his shared essence with the Ring; and given the title’s referral to him. Centuries later, Sauron was able to deceive the Númenóreans and steer them directly to their own destruction under promises of eternal life. He probably deluded himself with the notion that the Valar (including Melkor) having failed, Eru had simply abandoned Ea, or at any rate Arda, and would not concern himself with it any more. I've always pictured Sauron as the scrawny kid who's tolerated by the gang leader because he comes up with some really clever, twisted ideas. Gollum, having apparently once seen Sauron directly, described him as having only four fingers on his black hand, suggesting that Sauron was unable to regenerate the finger from which Isildur took the One Ring, similar to how the wounds Morgoth took from Fingolfin never healed. ¤Morgoth (Melkor) + Sauron (Mairon)¤ Morgoth was the author of all evil in the World. While Sauron starts off good and then goes south, it's important to … By the time Elves awoke in the world, Sauron had become Melkor's lieutenant and was given command over the new stronghold of Angband. He spread his power throughout Arda so that everything contained the capacity for evil (Tolkien said that Sauron was only able to create the One Ring because gold, in particular, had special properties derived from Morgoth that lent it the capacity for enhancing evil). Even when he had the One Ring, he was not able to fully defeat the Elves and once the Numenoreans joined in he was pushed out of Eriador. In addition to his physical appearance, Sauron also apparently had an aura of incredible malevolence. Morgoth Bauglir ([ˈmɔrɡɔθ ˈbau̯ɡlir]; originally Melkor [ˈmɛlkor]) is a character, one of the godlike Ainur, from Tolkien's legendarium. However, he was a skilled, influential, and manipulative politician and could charm his enemies, as he tried to do with Hurin when he captured him.When seen as Melkor, he was perceived as resplendent, majestic, and noble, even by his enemies, but when he became Morgoth, he became a giant looming threat which wa… After lying dormant and regaining strength for centuries, Sauron returned to power late in the Third Age and would be permanently crippled in the War of the Ring by the destruction of the One Ring by Frodo Baggins. Hence his endeavor always to break wills and subordinate them to or absorb them into his own will and being, before destroying their bodies. Melkor, later known predominantly as Morgoth, was the first Dark Lord, and the primordial source of evil in Eä. But though Sauron’s whole true motive was the destruction of the Númenóreans, this was a particular matter of revenge upon Ar-Pharazon, for humiliation. Melkor could do nothing with Arda, which was not from his own mind and was interwoven with the work and thoughts of others: even left alone he could only have gone raging on till all was leveled again into a formless chaos. Sauron could not, of course, be a ‘sincere’ atheist. Making him extremely dangerous. Sauron, the eponymous Lord of the Rings, was a fallen Maia, creator of the One Ring, a gifted student of Aulë the Smith and the greatest lieutenant of Melkor (Morgoth). His cynicism, which (sincerely) regarded the motives of Manwë as precisely the same as his own, seemed fully justified in Saruman. Even thou many would immediately say no, Sauron was not stronger than Morgoth, and they would be right, it is not that simple, and not that big of a difference between those two iconic villains. Sauron had never reached this stage of nihilistic madness. The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog, Morgoth versus Sauron - Tolkien on the nature of evil. 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