Morgoth Bauglir (originally known as Melkor) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Cycle. In Tolkien's secondary world, Morgoth is an Ainu, a divine character of the same order and nature as the Valar. In the histories of Middle-earth, Morgoth plays "the great enemy," the ultimate antagonist of Middle-earth. Sauron, Tolkien's better-known villain, is actually a servant to the true "Dark Lord", Melkor/Morgoth.
A character that appears in person only in The Silmarillion, Morgoth is of critical importance to the entire Tolkien cycle. The personification of evil in Middle-earth, Morgoth provides later generations of Middle-earth inhabitants with moral warnings against the 'sins' of absolute individuation, of pride, lust for power, greed and the ressentiment in which these sins result. His story also powerfully accounts for the existence of evil in otherwise innocent people's lives – it rationalizes (to an extent) the pain the characters of Middle-earth must experience. In a similar vein to the devil, Morgoth is evil made manifest, evil personified, and his story provides an answer in Middle-earth to the question "Why is there suffering?"
2006-06-14 04:43:58
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answered by allenlynn23 2
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yes, a morgoth is a big hairy smelly creature usually found in a typical office.
In many cases you wind up working with one.
2006-06-14 09:47:51
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answered by Roomba 2
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