I feel the two dark lords are meant to embody the essence of the two world wars. Morgoth being WW1, pointless destruction/violence without any real motive. Sauron as WW2/hitler, having an oversimplified authoritarian idea of world order as well as grudges carried over from the first conflict.
@@marcoparente7352 nobody knows exactly what his thoughts were. I think it's notable tho that the fall of the second dark lord heralded a new world order of general prosperity and peace, similar to the aftermath of WW2.
Eru was a jack ass. Morgoth with all his fault, never got any explanation why he should not be creative. Eru just told him off for trying to be different.
Until you read The Silmarillan you will only know a fraction of the story. Sauron was but a shadow of Melkor. ALL evil comes from Melkor. Sauron, by contrast, was just a one of the Maiar. "....But in the years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walk behind him on the same ruinous path down in the void"
Let me put it this way: if you think Sauron was evil and powerful, Morgoth is on a different level of toughness and being sinister. This is like saying Shang Tsung or Darth Vader or Megatron/Galvatron is tough and evil, but Shao Khan or Darth Sidious or Unicron or the Fallen (both are M3gatron's/Galvatron's masters) is on another level of toughness and evil.
@@123ucr feel like megatron and Unicron are a good comparison. Megatron being Sauron doesnt believe himself to be pure evil depending on which megatron we talking about. they believe they need to rule in order to create order. Unicron and Morgoth are just Pure chaos and evil out for total annihilation of all
Nah nah nah, more like. Morgoth knew he was in the wrong he was a rebellious child. Sayron genuinely believed he had the right to rule and that makes him way worse. Because he essentially becomes a hitlet character. (Funny how the story kinda matches tolkiens life yhrougj ww1 and ww2 huh)
Morgoth fought his war on a whole other level. He became physically weak because he infused his essence into the matter of middle earth itself. While he rarely fought directly, he reached a point where his power over middle earth was so great that he could literally will the ruin of people he didn't like (Turin) and going to war with him eventually came to mean going to war with the substance of Middle Earth. As was once said by the author, Sauron had a ring, but the whole of middle earth was in a real sense Morgoth's ring.
Yes, Morgoth added evil to Middle Earth during the song. After descending into Middle Earth he wrought physical changes and poured power into his followers as seen when he was nearly overcome by Ungoliant after poisoning the trees and stealing the Silmarils. His ties to the very stuff of Arda were so strong that the Valar long avoided all out war due to the devastation it would (and later did) bring completely changing the face of Arda.
Correction: Morgoth infused his essence into Arda, not just Middle Earth. Arda is the the whole world, Middle Earth is the continent where most of the action takes place.
Even though Morgoth was the most powerful, I feel like Sauron is probably the scariest in terms of his personality. Morgoth is the embodiment of chaos, but in a way that makes him sort of predictable in the end, while Sauron is a master manipulator that can be anyone or influence anyone to do his indirect bidding, and might even come across as sympathetic. It sorta feels like Morgoth is the Devil while Sauron is more like the Antichrist. He may be a "lesser" evil, but his unpredictable presence is terrifying. (also, I wish we could've seen Morgoth's army. Not just orcs and trolls, but also werewolves, vampires, wights, balrogs, giant spiders etc. Like the army itself is just pure chaos; a nightmarish mish-mash of your worst nightmares coming pouring over the hills towards you)
Sauron also seems like a better embodiment of Absolute Power imo, from a Narrative Persephone. His manipulative nature is like how tempting/appealing Absolute Power and Control can be sometimes. Everybody thinks that if they had the power to rule the world, they would be able to fix everything. Even Sauron thinks that if he could just rule Middle Earth everything would be great, he's just gotta stamp out these pesky Rebels first. It's always a trap however, as Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. That's of course why the One Ring corrupts peoples minds- Morgoth seems like an extension of this idea, as supposedly he enfused his essence into the the land itself, similar to Sauron attaching himself to The One Ring. Corruption and Power will always exist in the world, its pressence has become interwoven into Middle Earth itself now. There will always be Saurons who try to take it. As long as Morgoth exists, there will always be Saurons who strive to be like him. One to embody Power, the other to crave it. That's how I think of it tho, kinda like the Sith from Star Wars and their "Rule of Two"
In scripture "Satan" (the adversary) as in Samael, the entity in the Book of Job and the Fall, isn't Evil. In fact, he hates humans because of our evil and ungrateful natures. His failure/sin is that he thought he knew better than God. He assumed he knew how to punish humanity better than the Creator, the All, God. Much the same for The Anti Christ. (It is a spiritual state of humans who are in constant sin/failure in measurement to their acknowledgement or lack there of to the Holy Spirit in us all - Hence "there will be many anti christs) There is a figure known as the Son of perdition as well, which is mentioned. And it is that form of anti Christ behavior that will trick the world into solving problems that only exist due to false realities. And even then the Beast and the beast system turn on the Son of perdition and try to wound/kill him (inner conflict of power struggle amongst evil people)
@@exparrow777 the Book of Job the Root word for sin is failure, to miss the target. it's a cannanite hebrewic word we're saying in English phonetics And as an ex-atheist I think it's quite Evil to assume you think or know better than God himself. (as the atheistic mind is as such and shares a psyche with Samael, the poison of God, the accuser/Satan.) He is not evil in the cliche or narrow minded ways humans see things (Satan doesn't murder or steal, etc.) We do that, as free willed humans. But he is evil for thinking his intelligence surpasses the source of that intelligence. And because as a celestial entity his foreknowledge would be more than other creatures, and so "He knew better" but still chose otherwise. hence his Fall.
@@exparrow777 *1 Job 6-12* "6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD." [I also want to show that Satan does not have any domain or power of his own. He doesn't rule Hell, and infact it was made for him.] Matthew 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels." We already Knew of good and evil, each of us innately feels the call, pulse, or tug of the Holy Spirit, the guiding Rod That God put in us all. Even Eve and Adam knew of this already, and in genesis it shows that Satan had to lie about that fact of reality. He also was smited in genesis, and fractured. Satan isn't a god or lesser god. Not even a deity. He doesn't rule Hell or Demons. All he can do is convince others to fail as he did and get them to renounce God, because Samael is a salty jealous thing.
Sauron was originally a craftsman Maia serving under the Valar that created dwarves, I think. It's a beautifully sad arc, Sauron's. His desire for beauty and order ultimately created ugliness and chaos over thousands of years of corruption. In a way, Sauron was Morgoth's ultimate revenge. He twisted a beautiful angel into his successor in destruction.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
I wonder if Sauron's obsession with Order is why the creators of 'The Shivering Isles' expansion for 'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion' made Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order, heavily resemble Sauron's armored form from the Peter Jackson films.
Jyggalag was not necessarily evil, he was in truth against all of the Daedra as he was against everything that all of them stood for, including the Aedra. Order is anti-freedom, pro-conformity, everyone does as they are told instead of however they wish. And he mostly fell because he attacked all of the Daedra at once, he didn't have cunning, deception, or patience, nor was he malevolent or benevolent, he represented an idea more than anything. But after being free from his curse of having to destroy his own realm (which deeply offended him since it was the utter opposite of him; Chaos), he gave up his power, allowed the new Sheogorath to rule. If Jyggalag had been in Sauron's place, things would have gone dramatically different. He never would've crafted a Ring. He never would have tried to trick people as he isn't capable of it. And he'd be against Morgoth from the start. He'd probably be the only who would stop at nothing for the utter annihilation of Morgoth, cause as mentioned, Morgoth represents Chaos. But he'd also very likely be the first to die considering the massive difference in power.
Yes. Supposedly according to one of the devs (think it was Kirkbride iirc) they also rewrote entirety of Cyrodiil in Oblivion to resemble more like Lord of the Rings because Todd Howard really liked the movies, rather than what was presented before in prior lore where it was jungle Rome with Asian elements
@@anamaaes9218 sad really because we could have gotten a much more interesting ES4. But they always have their "dragon break" cop out to deal with in lore inconsistencies
@@Gyrannon "power difference" U have morgot who can probably destroy the universe where middle earth is Then u have jyggylag who is a prince of uncountable dimensional realms who are higher dimensional and can control them at will Even weak princes like peryte and sanguine hold at least more then I think 80K or more higher dimensional realms, and each can be destroy and manipulated by them at will
But that probably only happened because by that point, Melkor had spend enormous amounts of his power, while Ungoliant had just devoured the power from the 2 trees. Like a freshly rested and juiced boxer going up against an exhausted one, who just fought 5 matches right before that in a row.
Morgoth was awesome dude was 1v14 and still managed to win 2 time And don't forget his creation like glaurung, dragons and balrog He merged himself with the world itself. And he's still alive
There was a note from Tolkien when he actually wrote Sauron's original name before his corruption was Mairon "The Admirable" and he's been called Sauron that means "The Abhorred" or "The Abominable" by the elves after Morgoth corrupted him. Sauron is similar to a fallen angel that wants to make the Earth his own Hell. His ambition is also connected to his own nature, as a Maia he's one the most powerful being in the Tolkien's world, so he can't be satisfied by ruling a single region like common races do, he wants to use his power to bend the all world to his own will and his wish after that could be to ascend his nature by becoming a God himself
Sauron is still my favourite villian what he lacked in physical strength he made up for it in intelligence he had big boots to fill for a being much more limited in power he deserves credit I'm more of a fan of his "control and dominate" style than Morgoth's nihilistic "destroy it all" approach. I also like that through Sauron's actions and manipulations, Eru literally had to change the shape of the world. I enjoy Sauron's obsession with craft, a nod to his service to Aule, and him being the thorn in the side of men, elves and dwarves for thousands of years. Yes Sauron was much less powerful than Melkor, his former master but he did manage to not get caught when the Valar imprisoned Morgoth. He also survived the onslaught of Ar-Pharazon of Numenor whose army was one of the most powerful gathered after the First Age and by his cunning rose high in the King's favor and tempted him to invade Valinor. He then survived the Breaking of the World and retreated to Middle-Earth where he rebuilt Mordor and caused great harm to the People there. He managed to survive the taking of the Ring by Isildur and slowly and cunningly rose to power again until he was finally undone by the destruction of the Ring. Even though he was much less powerful, he outlasted Morgoth by his cunning and deceit and I guess he deserves a bit of credit for that In my opinion, Sauron is the more charismatic, intelligent, wiser, and interesting of the two characters.
I agree entirely. I think that Sauron has more layers and more complex as a character. Morgoth is more a ripoff of Satan, but Sauron is a little more. Twice he nearly brought middle-earth under his heel, yet in the beginning, was too weak to achieve this by force and did it mainly with stealth and elaborate plans (especially in the beginning). Yet Sauron in the end, just became Morgoth, in that he made the same mistakes and despite all his cunning, he couldn’t conceive that strength and help could come from place like the hobbits.
I feel like sauron merely got lucky that the humans were so easy to control. Had isildur destroyed the ring, he would be finished. Before that, ar- pharazaon spared him in his vanity and overconfidence. Stupid fools.....
@Jim Harrington if u have read silmarillon, u will know morgoth was all of those too. It's just that he was strong enough to not merely resort to trickery at every turn. Sauron was lesser than his master in every way. Of course, LoTR hardly gives us a clear scale of power or a relative scale of abilities between characters.
I’d argue that Sauron’s world would be far from lawless and violent. He craved order. All the wonton violence and destruction and such was a means to an end. We can even see from Sauron’s proposed treaty at the black gate that he was cool with other nation’s maintaining order in his name. It might have been rigidly structured or enforced, but Sauron would not have wanted anything relating to recklessness or even violence beyond that explicitly sanctioned by him (e.g. formal executions and such)
@@pincessenico4566 Even just his death leads to their catastrophic demise, so I take it he has severe control over their rights to existence, the ability to make them vanish with the snap of a finger would he so desire. Fear must certainly be a main contributor, if not a false promise of power.
His craving for order doesn't rule out violence. In fact, in his world view, that is revolving just around power, it will inevitably lead to "Might makes right", violence will prevail.
sauron craved order by destroying human and elven race which itself is chaos and disorder. and it was not means to and end. because his first aim was not order but to rule me.
@@pincessenico4566 If we are to believe this idea, the Orcs would just be tools. Means to an end. Or, alternatively, they'd be enforcers of imposed order rather than a natural one.
It's a very good video; excellent work done! A few comments from me - becoming part of Arda was Melkor's way to take it over. In the aftermath, he is partially always 'alive' whatever happens to his spirit. Arda is corrupted and will be as long as it exists. The other thing is that Malkor is not entirely gone - he is in the Void, but being connected to the world keeps the possibility for his return open. So we are expecting a final battle, destruction of the corrupted Arda and the creation of a brand new world. Same for Sauron - we don't know what actually happened to him, as being ainu loss of the body is not the end of the line.
With regards to the fate of Sauron, as he put a large portion of his spirit into the creation of the one ring, with its destruction it’s feasible he was fully destroyed unlike melkor who’s sprit still remains as a part of arda itself.
"In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself." ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, "Valaquenta"
I think it's more like he just does things that are out of sync with Illuvitar's order, which inevitably creates disruption. 'From a certain point of view' it could be argued that 'evil' in Tolkien's universe is just a result of the clashing between two different divine wills, both believing that they represent the correct way of doing things. I doubt Morgoth would actually want to create a world that was objectively evil, he just rebelled against Illuvitar's way and chaos was the inevitable result. It's also important to remember that Morgoth was himself created by Illuvitar, which suggests that evil was always a part of the plan all along. It seems like God needed the Devil
say you wanted to play a game but everyone else wants to play a different one and god chose theme over you, would you not be irritated and start playing it passive aggressively
@@AeneasGemini Morgoth wasn't a divine will opposing another divine will, but a creature, a created being, opposing God. To fight against Eru's will is to be evil. Morgoth wanted to create, that is, to be God. Eru's plan had little to do with it. Had Eru said, "I'll make everything exactly as you want," Morgoth would still rebel because Eru would still be God. As for God needing Satan & evil (or Eru needing Morgoth & evil), this thinking comes from a poor understanding of Free Will & omniscience. God wanted Satan/Lucifer/the Devil to be Good, to follow Him, and so gave him free will so that he could. He also had the omniscience to know the result. The choice would always be Satan's though. For God to destroy that choice, that free will, would be for God to destroy that being.
@@markuhler2664 it depends but if Eru can see the future (which I’m pretty sure he can) then Morgoth is definitely intended, though Tolkien might have made Eru as a being not able to know the future, Tolkien from the quotes I have seen is ambiguous, since it could be interpreted that Eru created all possibilities but the beings of Eä can “freely choose” which possibilities.
I love morgoth because he's such a perfect character development of absolute evil. He was so powerful but because of his decline into evil he just became more and more bitter and petty and ultimately just a vindictive sniveling shell of his former power.
From the grand scope of things, considering that all Ainur are children of Iluvatar, I often see Melkor's actions as one of those naughty kids in the house attempting get his parents' attention by being "playful", and in return all he get his rejection and scolding, which ultimately caused the kid to get angry, rebel, and leave the house. It's even sadder when Melkor was trying to add his own theme to the music or mess around with the creation, Iluvatar simply told him and that his attempts to create further chaos will only end up serving his will as those things will ultimately bring out a more precious form a beauty (and those words were indeed fulfilled at the end of all things). Melkor was basically told by his parent that no matter what he does, following or rebeling, he is doing and will always be doing the exact thing his parent wanted him to do. Imagine how mad and powerless he felt when he heard that.
As I recall, Sauron, being trained under the universe's greatest smith, was once capable of great works. I imagine he envisioned great and beautiful structures and systems when he first dared to imagine Arda and MiddleEarth under his guidance. But I also imagine he thought of it in a static vacuum. I doubt he comprehended how things would coexist and operate under the true nature of Life...Life which constantly grows and changes, things Sauron tends to dislike. Even a simple forest is a complexity that any fortification or settlement must adapt to. His penchant for jagged designs and crude metal might be an attempt at efficiency and intimidation during his war campaigns, but I often wonder how he actually envisioned civilization to go under his rule. He seemed to think he knew what was best FOR the peoples of MiddleEarth, if only they'd go along with him. Naturally, they resist, he has to connive and war and deceive them and the focus of his original goal just gets eclipsed. But, in his ideal world, where everyone says, "oh yes, of course, Mairon, right this way, excellent idea, yes." What would it look like? As you pointed out, he seems to default to wiping out growth, and as we know, he has a way of using magic to bypass normal construction and limitations. Would it be a world of metal? Crude constructions and factories? Or, unresisted, would he have sleek constructions akin to Orthanc or Minas Tirith? I think, overall, assigning Maiar to one Valar alone was a slight mistake. Had Sauron learned from Yavanna or other Valar learned in nature, Sauron would better understand the role of life and changing form in the World. Such as it was, he learned much of Aule's knowledge of earth and fire, but as a Maiar he may not have perceived his sense of balance with the World and the other Valar.
I think he would try to make the world like a model. He would want everything to be perfect and yet, people move about and break things. His only solution to this would be to freeze people in place and pose them. Honestly would be a hellscape with people frozen in place for eternity in "perfect" cities and forests
@@jacobgame2757 maybe not freeze them, because then he can’t see the ingenuity of his perfect creation in motion. Maybe he just grows insane enough to just puppet the people of middle earth around in there day to day lives perpetually once big brother style tyranny doesn’t cut it.
I think an origin story of Sauron (sort of like better call Saul) and seeing that depicted as the Rings of power primary story line would’ve been super sick. Seeing the slow inevitable corruption of Sauron into the dark lord of the 3rd age would’ve been a pretty sweet anti hero show.
@@edgeofhell5966 but whyy was the show hamstrung by such stupid limitations yet could bear the LotR name. The rights management of Tolkien's work makes no sense to me, and I can't wait for it to be in public domain
I love the idea of Sauron and Morgoth ending up in the same spot and Sauron just coming in after the ring is destroyed and sees Morgoth sitting there and they reunite like old college friends
Morgoth is locked away, alone, in an empty void behind a door, somewhere. I think Saurons spirit is trapped floating around middle earth or something Sauron got the better end of the deal. At least he has something to look at, instead of......nothing. Morgoth must be so bored
@@fritz9830 I mean, the void was kind of what Morgoth/Melkor wanted? He wanted nothing else to exist but him. Sauron as a bodiless spirit also has a chance to see civilization grow and thrive without him as their guidance. How mortal man can create beautiful things without the will of a god to help them. Seeing the advancement of human civilization would humble and break Mairon.
@@fritz9830 you comment made me thought - if Melkor put all or most his power into Arda itself, then him being locked down outside of space-time (I guess) must have stripped him of that power ... still Eärendil has to be on the watch.
I feel like it would more be the equivalent to either dad and son or big and little brother. Melkor was a higher being than Sauron and helped create the world. Saurons kind were lesser versions of them created by the same god, so it would probably fit into a more “siblings reunite after centuries apart.” Would be cool though I agree!!!
I dont think you give Morgoth enough credit here. His actions were organized and directed, he destroyed the world as it was planned to be and infused himself into all of creation itself. He slipped into madness as his actions could not turn into the results he wished. Also he was not a coward, he just knew how to use his power the best way, and that was in manipulation and commanding forces, not in direct confrontation with stronger forces like all the other Vala together.
Morgoth was a coward. Tolkien made it pretty clear morgoth was the embodiment of every negative quality and of all the valar only he knew fear. He was proud, petty, sadistic, cowardly, and a blatant liar. When fingolfin called him out he didn't even want to go out and fight. And when he finally was defeated he begged for pardon without shame. He was absolute evil and thereby, absolutely pathetic.
To be fair he's not getting enough justice here at all, the book tells us how he was the greatest Valar at everything until he wasn't (exactly like Fëanor) he did have a brain and he did use it, only significantly less after Ungoliant almost clapped him. He managed to trick the Valar and literally won a 1 vs 14 fight, twice, he's capable of spreading lies and discord in a hella efficent way, you see him whispering in someone's ear?Well next thing you know, a revolution starts the next day. Also he is capable of manipulating literally everyone, including the Valar . He had enough braincells as we know, in fact the thing that caused his downfall was his ambition, which isn't a bad thing to have, but it might become depending on how you develop as a person (whoops, let's go back to fiction)He wanted to persue an impossible goal, seeing the same goal being persued by someone else (literally God) made him gelous as heck, until he literally looses the capacity to feel any admiration whatsoever towards anything or anyone other than himself, the same thing also leads to him losing the ability to feel love of any kind, so yeahhhh Manwë, 3 ages in prison ain't gonna fix him. He made himself the monster he is, maybe he didn't even mean it, but did he care?Nope, did he try to stop himself from going down that path after realising it?Nope, he did not care 1 bit. He's the embodiment of every evil personality trait to have ever existed, but somehow he's still pretty fascinating as a character (may not be as complex as Sauron and Fëanor, but still), which is probably why many people, including me, actually like him. Also needless to say smart evil characters always work with the fans for some reason lol. Sauron and Melkor are different in substancially their view of the world, the first one wanted to rule the world to make it "perfect", the problem with that is that he viewed the world in a hyperlogical way, throw in the influence of the literal devil and boom, say bye to your ability to have positive feelings Mairon! Very differentlt, the second would literally get mad as hell because someone was smiling in his viewing distance. While one had good intentions but carried them out the wrong way, ultimately yeeting himself into darkness, the second one also had good intentions (at like the extreme beginning though, he wanted to do create life and tried to pretend, line from the book "even with himself" that he wanted to do good to the Elves when he saw them in the vision) but after realising he couldn't do what he wanted, and after accepting his proud ass would not let him do good stuff, he got all whiney and yeeted himself into darkness (while also giving Sauron a "hand" in following him in said yeeting into darkness).
@@TheSuperRatt Nah but for real, Eru here is viewed as a saint but homie was the one that caused it all. Did the Valar not even once think: "Wait, if Melkor is the embodiment of evil and is the cause of all the pain and misery on this planet including ours, and if Eru created Melkor, doesn't that mean...?" And did the Elves never ever think that?I mean we could argue Eru Illuvatar is that one artist or that one writer that shoves tons and tons of trauma and despair into their characters and stories because "why not?" I get it the bro created everything, but does it really justify allowing such horrible things to happen? Are we gonna forget about the one time the son of a delusional guy that followed his father out of fear and loyalty got nailed to a wall? We tend to forget that EVERYTHING that happens is happening because Eru said yes, so I wonder: were all the torturing and enslaving bits necessary, Eru? Also the fact that the Oath of Fëanor affected everyone that even barely came to contact with Fëanor's house was kinda bullshit, I mean cmon.
I just realized I wrote a long ass comment, when everything I said was already summarized in the original one, everything's right exept the coward bit, he was a coward for sure, I kinda don't understand how the mightiest being in the universe, only second to the literal creator, could possibly be afraid of something but ok, we know damn well he was terrified of Tulkas and Varda because...because yes ig, that's the only part of the Silmarillion that never made much sense to me.
Sauron was the far more clever and patient of the two. I think that he followed Morgoth to gain power to reshape existence after Morgoth had succeeded in his own initial goals.
My thoughts exactly. It is also implied that Melkor relied on Sauron's intellect quite a bit whenever he wanted to "create" (actually corrupt) more evil servants.
@@jakobrenner2230 implied where exactly ? The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and The Fall of Gondolin ? I don't recall Melkor relying on Sauron in terms on intellect. Which book was this implied ?? Melkor was just as if wiser but he had the strength to bend things to his will. Sauron HAD to resort to more devious and craftier tactics because he didn't possess the strength to have the world bend to it's knees as Melkor did. As he did against Numenor and creating the rings to corrupt. Perfect example would be Superman. Has the intelligence to go against anyone intellectually but why do that if you can just brute force your way instead of that makes sense.
@@JrClips27 good point. And if one where to compare superman with Batman, most people would say Batman is smarter, but that’s because he HAS to be. Very similar situation imo
@@mattiasandersson8693 exactly. Supes is from a family of brilliant scientist and has the mind of a super computer, but why do all that if he can punch his way out of any situation. Batman doesn't have that luxury. That said it's the same for Melkor and Sauron.
@@mattiasandersson8693 Batman IS smarter than Superman lol , Y'all say it like if let's say I have to be smarter than Einstein I can be lol , it doesn't work like that
To me, Sauron seems more human as a villain, in the sense that his motivations are somewhat understandable: it's the old dream of "if I were in charge, everything would be better!", and it's something everyone deals with to some extent. He's essentially a Saruman-like character, powerful enough to see the failings of rational creatures around him, but not wise enough to understand his own failings. While Melkor strikes me as more of an "elemental" villain: as in, an incarnation of a certain element of the human psyche, . He's a personification of pride (which is the beginning of evil, in the Christian sense: wanting to be like God, etc.), in the same way that Shelob could be a personification of gluttony and greed. One wants to control all he can, and destroy the rest: the other wishes for nothing but to consume all around it, to satisfy its ever-growing appetite. In a way, they complete each other very well. Although we all know none of these lords of evil can ever compare to the one true lord of evil: the One who is the Master, whose songs are greater songs and whose feet are faster...
Shelib is glutony only Greed are the dragons Wrath balrogs I think, pure flame of anger Not sure if envy lust etc have incarnation as well in tolkien With tolkien a devout catholic a creature per deadly sin would have fit
@@laresilience5829 I guess so... I don't think Tolkien really had that idea in mind. Though you could argue Morgoth had all these sins in one neat package: his original pride leads him to destructive anger, lying, and even to lust (over Lúthien)
I think from this Analysis we can see why the books and movies were centered around Sauron and not Morgoth as, Sauron is more grounded and understandable, in a sense he can be defeated in a climax. Morgoth is cosmic and ambiguous, his desires inhuman and insane to us, his defeat is simultaneously possible but also desirable to himself. The scope of Morgoth is a psychadelic paradox requiring intense metaphysics to understand, while Sauron is a simple heroes journey type bad guy. I think the true horror of Morgoth is we are subject to his evil and once finding out about it we likely will not enjoy life or ourselves afterwards while say victory against Sauron comes with a restoration of mankind and the crowning of Aragorn as king of Gondor representing renewal. I feel like Morgoth is the type of shit Gandalf and the higher Elves keep to themselves because they know it would drive simpler minds insane. From my understanding of this work it is that Melkor seeded the world with evil and thus there can never be a lasting peace until there is some kind of final reckoning or end of the world. Sauron is merely a bump in the road or a divergent flight of fancy until the real battle.
I always thought of their difference more in this way, Melkor, as a Vala, sought utter conquest through the dissemination of his own inherent power, whereas Sauron, as a Maia, sought conquest by the collection of as much power as he could gain and control into one location, that being himself.
I would say your description of Sauron is spot on. As for Morgoth, I would replace utter conquest with destruction; the dissemination of his own power created Arda Marred, which damaged the world rather than aiding him in conquering it.
It's worth considering that this means that Sauron was drawing to himself much of the remaining power that Morgoth had left behind. It seems to me that in declaring himself to be "Morgoth returned", Sauron is expressedly trying to do this. In the elder scrolls there is a principle known as mantling, where an individual takes on the attributes of another (i.e., takes up their "mantle") to draw on their power, usually with the goal of attaining their own sort of ascension to heroism or godhood. In this way the original power is sort of eclipsed by the rising power, both sort of becoming infused with aspects of the other to become a greater single entity. I think that this is what Sauron was doing when he declared himself such, he really was trying to embody the original dark lord, while still bringing that power under his own sway. As one of Morgoth's chief agents, its possible that Morgoth himself even veiwed Sauron in this way- like a powerful weapon that he could continue to weild, even after he had been removed from Arda himself.
Well done. Two characters that provide insight into how Tolkien saw the world. Morgoth is more like the classic Lucifer figure, a mythic representation of a fall from grace that he believed was an important part of any mythos. Sauron was tied more to his rejection of industrialization and national conflict in the real world. No other artist, at any other time, would likely have concocted such a combination of villains.
I kind of do think that people forget just how charismatic and cunning Morgoth could be. From the start of it with the music of the Ainur, really. He managed to corrupt numerous spirits throughout his entire run time. Balrogs, Sauron, some of the humans, etc. He wasn't just a brute when it came to his approach either and often relied on laying traps for his opponent, forcing them to give in to making mistakes with acts of pure, sheer malice so great that rage got the best of them and so on. The Battle of Sudden Flame is my favourite example. He manages so many underhanded moves on the enemies attacking him, which they never noticed until too late, that by the time he unleashes his final reserves, which were all cunningly also kept secret, along with Glaurung it's already a victory. He even gets disappointed with Glaurung when he breaks out in his infancy to wreak havoc on the elves because he revealed himself too early. If anything, he is *extremely* cunning and deceitful when he wants to be and not in any way a dumb brute. Saying that he is not a schemer, in my opinion, isn't correct at all. I don't really consider raw power something that plays too much of a role here either. Compared to the enemies he had and which he fought, I would say that Sauron was in a much better position on that front. Between fighting the Valar for untold ages while they were shaping the world, all on his own, to waging a war which took down the first lights and shattered Arda down the middle with Ungoliant an army of Maiar which he corrupted with, again, pure charisma or simply battling the far more powerful, in comparison to later ages, people of Middle Earth or the First Age for hundreds of years. He was very often the underdog and still came out on top, likely through strategy more than just simple, raw power.
Melkor had part of the power and understanding of the rest of the Valar and Maiar. He was skilled in subterfuge and persuasion and was skilled in the use of language (Quenya) that could scarce be equaled by any poet or loremaster. This is a being who could fool the other Valar (and it would be assumed that he did this when speaking with them mind to mind, as they had no need for language amongst themselves).
0-2 is a bit unfair since he did kill the 2 most powerful beings on the side of good during the War of the Last Alliance and Huan had the cheatcode of Prophesized Death that Sauron tried to be clever about.
So what you're saying is that Huan won, but was later found to be using performance enhancing drugs, and that Sauron vs Elendil/Gil-galad was a unanimous draw?
@@DarthGandalfYT Yeah since it was stated even pre Sauron vs Huan that only the Greatest werewolf ever could kill Huan so Sauron thought that him shapeshifting into one would fulfill the prophecy. But since Sauron was only in the form of one and was by his nature a Maiar he would have been destined to lose the fight. Morgoth ended up doing it right and made Carcharoth with the prophecy in mind and both he and Huan killed each other in battle. Also it could be considered a draw for Gil-Galad and Elendil since Sauron was mortally wounded after he killed them both.
@@salavantias1948 Still makes me mad that fucking Sauron who was the mightiest Maiar according to Tolkien wasn't a mightier wolf than Carcharoth , I get that Morgoth created him but he never created anything on a Maiar level since the dragons were simply created like the orcs , making Sauron bitch to Huan cause of that is kinda lame, Sauron definetly didn't lose the fight against Elendil and Gil-Galad since he was alive when both of them were already dead , It is very possible that if Isildur didn't cut off his finger he would have recovered fairly quickly so Sauron fair and square never lost a fight
From the grand scope of things, considering that all Ainur are children of Iluvatar, I often see Melkor's actions as one of those naughty kids in the house attempting get his parents' attention by being "playful", and in return all he get his rejection and scolding, which ultimately caused the kid to get angry, rebel, and leave the house. It's even sadder when Melkor was trying to add his own theme to the music or mess around with the creation, Iluvatar simply told him and that his attempts to create further chaos will only end up serving his will as those things will ultimately bring out a more precious form a beauty (and those words were indeed fulfilled at the end of all things). Melkor was basically told by his parent that no matter what he does, following or rebeling, he is doing and will always be doing the exact thing his parent wanted him to do. Imagine how mad and powerless he felt when he heard that.
Imagine being the parent to a teenage know-it-all rebel kid sowing deliberately discordant music into the world because he wants to wield his parent's power and authority and dgaf who of his siblings or what of the created 'peasants' he has to chaotically or cruelly step on to make it happen. . Imagine how disheartened Eru felt knowing in advance that his gifted and once promising rebel-without-a-cause would choose evil every time, every chance. That his music has to be worked and weaved *around* instead of it flowing with his siblings' and dad's. Bbecause the kid will only ever corrupt, harm and destroy anything he can't be master of -- even though he'd never been entitled to it anyway.
P. S. In other words, pity the villain if you want, but never forget this grown-too-proud, malicious self-centered being born with a silver-spoon metaphorically in his mouth would rather see you (and everyone) dead if he can't have you (and all) enslaved. Some things just aren't justifiable or acceptable even if they are intellectually comprehendible, eh?
It's pretty fucked up Iluvitar when you think about it, one could say God is the biggest manipulator and evil since they are the ones that started this game of suffering and hope.
There was a time after the LotR movies when I really, really wished to see the great wars and stories of the First Age to be on film. Today I´m praying they don´t get their hands on the IP... But man... if done right it would be such a blast!
I would love to see Children of Hurin adapted to film. I reckon there's easily enough there for two movies, possibly three if you some of Tuor's story was included.
@@DarthGandalfYT And what a great story it is! But they might need to hand out tissues... Farewell, oh twice beloved! Túrin Turambar turun ambartanen - Master of Doom, by Doom mastered! Oh happy to be dead! I love this story!
@@DarthGandalfYT That would be a hard pitch to make to a studio: a hero who is a dour jerk most of the time and all the main characters die tragically.
I SERIOUSLY DO NOT want to see the First Age, or the Second Age, or anything else from Tolkiens works be put on film. I don't want modern sjw politics inserted into Tolkiens work like I hear that AWFUL amazon LOTR knockoff garbage is doing, going "woke". They don't have nearly enough respect for either Tolkien or his material. They don't have the RESPECT to hold back on THEIR OWN politics but instead honor Tolkien and push HIS message. They also hate Christians so that's another reason they would never push Tolkiens message. I think highly of Peter Jackson for having the balls to actually respect Tolkiens works and do just that; convey TOLKIENS message not your own modern leftist beliefs(Tolkien was NOT a leftist in any stretch of the imagination and that Amazon show is freaking offensive to any Tolkien fan). That's also prob why Peter Jackson was never brought on to help with Amazons LOTR knockoff garbage. Because he would insist on being true to the lore, and there would be no warrior full plate armor Galadrial(lol), or a black dwarf queen(also, lol), black elves, and gay couples, and other leftist abominations/wet dreams. I seriously just wanna wait till modern Hollyweird freaking dies until I see any studio from there make ANY Tolkien related material. I like Tolkiens works more than any other fiction; even more than George Lucas Star Wars(which was also destroyed by these same "woke" sjw assholes); I DONT wanna see it ruined, tarnished, degraded, and destroyed, like I have heard Amazons garbage does to it - and like I could tell by its trailer alone. Btw Galadrial is NOT a warrior in the sense that she wears full plate armor from the 15th or 16th century and uses a longsword(thats ABSURD for Galadrial). And Elven women were NOT warriors same as women of the race of Man, despite hollyweird's modern SJW politics. Nevertheless Galadrial, when she is forced to fight, is extremely powerful; but shes powerful because of her great MAGIC, because she is one of the bearer's of the Elven rings of power, which greatly amplifies the magical abilities she already had and gives her new ones too, particularly better control over nature itself. And if Galadrial was gonna have a weapon AT ALL(she wouldnt but lets pretend here) it would be a Bow and knife for close combat like the rest of the Galadhrim. But aside form Eowyn "female warriors" aren't a thing in Tolkiens works, any more than they were in real life(or STILL ARE in real life to this very day; women in the military arent sent to the frontlines and the answer to that is too obvious to even say). Women have other roles and other power's in Tolkiens works even the powerful ones; just like the real world. They aren't Men with breasts like the feminist leftist nutcases want people to think, like that RIDICULOUSLY OFFENSIVE Amazon Lord of the Rings knockoff and its writers want to pretend. And frankly, expecting women to have the same qualities as Men(and calling them useless or "sexist" if they don't have those qualities in a movie) is DEGRADING to women and their own specific role and abilities, it denies femininity itself. That's what feminism has always been about, trying to make people believe that Women are the exact same as Men and have the exact same natural abilities and inclinations and skills and abilities and so on. People are NOT equal. People have, and SHOULD HAVE, equal rights UNDER THE LAW but people are inherently NOT EQUAL, not between the sexes, not between races, and most of all not between individuals. And the Dwarves hid their women; Dwarven women not only had beards but they didn't like leaving their homes. That black dwarven queen(why is she black? No clan of dwarves is black AT ALL. Why would people who live underneath MOUNTAINS for THOUSANDS OF YEARS be BLACK? wtf?) is just as offensive as Galadrial in that amazon show. Damn. Don't trust hollyweird EVER. Pray that the woke agenda DIES a painful death in hollyweird before any more LOTR stuff gets made, or better yet that Amazon sells off the IP. They got rid of Tom Shippey you know; the only guy capable of forcing them to respect Tolkiens lore, highly respected in the Tolkien community. That's an indication of what they think of all of us who like Tolkiens works like LOTR and Silmarillion and all the others.
Gothmog gets no love he held the same rank as Sauron in Morgoths army. It was also him and his other Balrogs that saved Morgoths butt when he was about to get owned by Ungoliant. He may not have been as strategic as Sauron but in a straight up fight in the first age I would put my money on Gothmog over Sauron.
Gothmog was the brawns and Sauron was the brains of Morgoth's organization imho. They both had an abundance of what the other lacked. I guess that's why Morgoth held them both equally as his top commanders.
Morgoth was greedy and stupid despite being incredibly strong and powerful whereas Sauron was crafty and smart despite being far weaker. That was the difference between the two of them.
actually Morgoth would've won had it not been for the interference of the Valar. It's a bit like Ramsey's arc in GoT. He played everything to perfection but hadn't counted on 10K knights of the vale suddenly arriving at the scene.
While it’s true Morgoth has greater might in a physical fight, Sauron’s might is a bit downplayed and he was a strong fighter (if anything it was ultimately his generalship that failed). Morgoth (the most powerful of the Valar) took 7 wounds that would not heal from a mere elf who was technically inferior in every way and 2 tiers lower from him in class from a power perspective (not to mention he had every advantage in that fight it being on his own turf). Meanwhile Sauron took on and killed 2 of the most powerful people of their day in a 2 versus one fight. One was Elendil a giant 8 ft numenoran man and king of the Dunedain. He was considered one of the greatest warriors to ever live. The other was Gil-Galad a great king of the elves and again one of the most powerful of his age. He fought both of them at the same time and gave them mortal wounds. Unfortunately for Sauron his body was so damaged from the fight it allowed Isildur to cut the ring from his finger in the encounter. However his fighting power should not be understated or underestimated. He simply utilized it in a much different way than Morgoth who was all about destruction.
@@susanrodriquez3757 Sauron was defeated by Lúthien & Huan, he was defeated so many times... but yeah, Morgoth is nothing special either. That's because Tolkien's power-scale makes no sense.
Let's be honest, Sauron would be an easy Dark Souls boss for the simple fact that instead of using that giant ass Mace he has, he'd just try to grab you instead and get his only strength cut from his hand 😆😆
While Morgoth is the OG big baddy, I always favoured Sauron more as a villain. Sauron was conniving, manipulative, cruel and hella patient which overall makes him appear more evil in overall grand intention/motivation. Good video mate!
I should make a minor correction to your final point that "Morgoth and Sauron ended up in the same place". They absolutely did not; Morgoth was cast through the Door of Night into the Void, a place entirely outside the material Universe of space and linear time (which in Tolkien's legendarium consists only of the world of Arda and its atmosphere, with the sun, moon and stars existing on a plane in the very uppermost layers of said atmosphere). Sauron was never cast from the World, so even to this day his disembodied spirit still roams Earth as a shapeless, impotent malice. It's just that he suffered such a catastrophic loss of his native power when the One Ring was destroyed, that he will never again be able to amass enough strength to threaten the world, either as a bodiless spirit or as a fully-physical being. According to a passage in the Silmarillion which, for some reason, Christopher Tolkien decided to leave out of the published version, Morgoth will eventually find his way back into the world, at the Dagor Dagorath ("Battle of All Battles", basically analogous to the End of Days in most mythologies).
I know this is epic high fantasy, but I can't help but laugh when I think about how the characters would react after Morgoth's escape, like they put him in this place that's out of space and time, and yet he gets out. Also Eärendil, we know he would keep an eye of him with his disco-floating ship every now and then, I kinda headcanon that moment as everyone running around panicking, with the Valar raging at Eärendil: "Ehem, guys, we have a problem" "What problem?Everything's good, that evil Maia in Middle Earth has been gone for so long now, so what could possibly have happened now" "First off I wanted to tell you that you're the best and I admire you so much and-" "Bro, get to the point" "Weeeelll, Morgoth's kinda not..kinda not where you left him" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOT WHERE WE LEFT HIM?!" "HE'S JUST NOT MAN IDK HE'S GONE" "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN" "BRO I WAS AWAY FOR 2 SECONDS, BLAME YOUR STUPID GUARDS" "HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!" "IDK BRO ASK ERU OR SOMETHING"
It says here in this verse from The Silmarillion Sauron did go to the Void. "In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and in the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.” --Silmarillion, Valaquenta, Of The Enemies, Page 20.
The writings pre-date D&D so I thought it funny that Morgoth sounds like he has a chaotic evil alignment and Sauron sounds like he has a lawful evil alignment. It made me wonder if Tolkien had continued with the sequel would the villain in the 4th Age end up with something like a neutral evil alignment. Probably not. But if I'm ever DM-ing in the 4th Age setting, that's what I would do to make things different than before.
Based on some of his statements, it's likely the big bad would have been one or both of the Blue Wizards, since Tolkien wrote in a letter that they were most likely the main leaders of the cults of Morgoth after Sauron's defeat
@@BroadwayRonMexico tolkien wrote a lot of conflicting stuff about the blue wizards. everything is just speculation and nothing is for sure about them. I think ungoliant can be described very well as neutral evil, a pure force of nature
Fun fact: People think Sauron was huge for a humanoid, towering over most at ~ 3 meters tall ( ~9'5) , could easily throw dozens of humans around with his mace. Morgoth was ~ 12 meters tall ( ~40 foot).
Correct, technically these are just estimates fans have made based on some descriptions in the books, which are not consistent at all. Morgoth is described being as tall as a tower and as big as a hill in his tyrant form, yet in the battle vs Fingolfin (who is about 7-8ft) he's able to step on his neck, so he couldn't be more than 15-20ft tall and there are more such instances. Sauron was as tall as an elf in his original form, however he could shapeshift and change his size, so we could only speculate, but in the third age when he revealed his dark lord form he was much taller than any humanoid. Still, considering how big the Balrogs and the Dragons were, especially Ancalagon, it doesn't seem unlikely that Sauron and Morgoth could be quite gigantic themselves, compared to a hobbit per say.
@@pubx1312 Morgoth got smaller over time as his power in his personal form waned. In the beginning, the Valar were truly gigantic (but they were also not truly physically incarnate, only Morgoth ever became fully incarnate among the Valar): "a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold." It seems likely that Morgoth (and the Maia who served him, including Sauron and the Barlogs) were in the range of 12 to 20 feet tall in the time of the First Age.... when Ecthelion fought Gothmog in Gondolin, Ecthelion was about half (or a bit more) of Gothmog's height--putting the Balrog around 12-15 feet. Morgoth would have been larger but probably not by much.
Nothing, in my view, illustrates the discrepancy in methods, personality and power between these two than the image of Burad-dur set before towering Orodruin. The dark tower with it's ordered symmetry, artifice and function dwarfed by the asymmetrical, primal fury of the mountain of fire.
Sauron used some spells/powers like: a) Volcano Control - Orodruin; b) Shapeshift; c) Earthquake; d) Weather Control; e) Dominate Monster; f) Mass suggestion; g) antimagic field; h) Sympathy; i) Create undead; J) Dispel Magic; Etc These powers were used by Melkor/Morgoth. I don't emember another servant who could do the same.
@@dreliq981 "Yes, to Mordor,’ said Gandalf. ‘Alas! Mordor draws all wicked things, and the Dark Power was bending all its will to gather them there. The Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too, leave him open to the summons. And all folk were whispering then of the new Shadow in the South, and its hatred of the West. There were his fine new friends, who would help him in his revenge"
@@jummyran Most of the time, yes. But Morgoth had weakened a great deal by the end of the First Age to the point of where Sauron was actually stronger for a short time.
Melkor had substantial innate power, which allowed him to lash out against the creation he hated, without needing to scheme or rely so much on collaborations. Sauron lacked that power and desire to destroy, which forced him to scheme and be structured to get what he wanted and to preserve what he wanted to control/rule. If Sauron had Melkor's power and wanted to destroy everything, then he probably would have acted Silmaril-larly (similarly). JMO.
This was frocking awesome, loved the lore, telling style and ofc the fully encompassing depth of analysis you dish out, man you dish that out with style. Take care brother
Imo I say that Sauron more realistic in his goals. And the experiences he had taught him to be patient. With the exception of moving fast after aragorn revealed himself to Sauron, Sauron largely seemed to have learned from his mistakes... But not enough to repent
Incredible video. I liked your take and explanation of their character and differences. You got Sauron's character dead on. Sauron makes me thing of Jacen, from Star Wars lore. He was one of the most talented jedi in existence, with a knack for discipline, economy, organization, and was utterly selfless. He saw no other being capable nor with the strength of character to do what was right even if it cost everything.
The problem with Sauron's end-game was that he would create his own nightmare. With the destruction of nature and animals all under his dominion would eventually starve to death or die of some other indirect consequences of his unrestrained destruction. In a small way he would give his master Morgoth the victory indirectly.
Think it was more destroying unbound nature. Not leaving a forest so massive you can't control what happens in it, not letting colossal herds of animals have free reign etc. Weirdly makes me think of Sauron opening dark national parks, hard set in their areas, but controllable.
sauron does not want to destroy nature, he just wants to control all of nature. I think this assumption, that he would destroy it comes from the movies where mordor is depicted as a volcanic wasteland, but the region around the sea of nurn was very fertile and used for industrial farming to properly supply his massive armies. It was basically nature, but he controlled it.
I think the appearance of those two perfectly match their difference. Morgoth is in black armor with an iron crown and a huge hammer showing how he is a force of destruction, Sauron is often depicted as a mage showing is intelect and duplicity. (then the movie made Sauron look like Melkor so...)
An interesting example of Sauron's less extreme nature that wasn't mentioned was the terms he offered the Western leaders at the Black Gate when they confronted his forces - he would spare all of them and let them return to their own lands, provided they recognised Sauron's dominion and became his vassals. He wouldn't even rule them directly, but would still let them run their own affairs so long as they didn't conflict with Sauron's plans. Considering how much trouble they'd caused Sauron, this seems very generous and reasonable, and certainly not something Melkor would have done.
The greatest crimes of Morgoth are quite vague since we are given no details by Tolkien - destroying the works of the other Valar prior to the awakening of the Children of Ilúvatar, teaching men to fear the Gift of Death, and corrupting Arda so everything diminishes with time.
Is that way magic is fading in Lotr? Because Melkor/Morgoth poured his power into Arda? I thought that was by design, then again i did read somewhere that Eru kinda wanted Morgoth to be the way he was, so i suppose that events itself out.
@@Zero60133 Ultimately, I don't think Eru is as concerned about Morgoth as the Valar. Magic started fading from the time Aman got separated from the rest of Middle-Earth. The exodus of the elves just accelerates it.
There really isn't any "magic" in Arda in the common sense of fantasy magic. What "magic" you see is the natural abilities of the people involved. The Ainur have a deep understanding of the nature of the world (after all they helped design it) and their nature is such that they can manipulate the very fabric of the world as a natural ability. The elves have a similar, if lesser, power and a similar, if lesser knowledge--and they had long exposure to the Ainur and their knowledge. The Dwarves have a preternatural skill (from a human perspective) in the making of things and the understanding of this--as would seem only logical in the children of Aule. They are, from the evidence, actually equal or better craftsmen than the Eldar, saving the rare instance of Feanor and perhaps Eol. The humans don't have any magic that is discernable--in the rare causes we see this it is largely "borrowed" magic through items or association with actual powers (like Morgoth or Sauron). Remember that the royal lineage of Numenor is part Eldar, part Ainur, and human--which accounts for their abilities.
@@kingmasterlord Sauron would be pretty successful in my opinion. He would likely end up as one of the top devils in the Nine Hells. As, similarly to the real great devils of the setting, he has great power, but his real potency is his brain, his cunning, and his knack for manipulation. He'd scheme the absolute shit out of the realms of Hell and play the powers against one another, only to come out on top in the end. Then possibly lose later, because DND Hell is a perpetual cycle of betrayal caused by unchecked ambition.
I remember when I was a kid, watching the movies and seeing the One Ring destroyed, I cried. 🤣 I feel like I was already overly biased towards Sauron before learning about him. Great video, thank you. 🖤
Morgoth, for all his strength, isn't what I think of when I think of 'The Dark Lord'. I only think of Sauron. He's cunning, corrupting, deceptive, and one of the most successful trilogies in fantasy literature isn't about fighting him directly- by ROTK, there would be nobody on the field that could take on a fully-reincarnated Sauron. No, it's merely about ensuring that he can NEVER return- because he possesses a kind of evil so well-calculated and determined that nobody would have been able to defeat him again. Morgoth is the rough first-draft; all strength, no substance. Sauron is the refined final product.
That speaks to something people often misunderstand about Tokien's mythology: The Valar are simple and natural beings. Enormously powerful and deep, but not at all clever or complicated. That's why they're able to be surprised by decisions of Elves and Men. Morgoth is likewise a simple beast despite his huge power, and his fortresses are like animal lairs rather than buildings. But Sauron is a maker, although increasingly irresponsible until near-pure evil.
I think even being plain simple theres beauty in the evil of Morgoth, he represents the most pure sin of all: arrogance Through arrogance he believes he deserves to be better than Eru and demands to remake creation as its own, in a way Morgoth despises the universe as a whole and wants a new universe of his own, through the destruction of the present one
@@guifdcanalli It's honestly rare to see a villain like him actually work and not be hated by everyone in the fanbase. Usually villains that go "yeah i'm completely evil and i want to destroy the world and basically i exist because the cool main hero characters need a nemesis" are mostly ok in cartoons and when they're in actual content for non-kids they might get annoying, but this time it works. It works because we're in a setting that completely justifies it: we're at the creation of the universe, and the only characters we've been introduced to so far are gods and demi-gods, so it makes perfect sense for them to be "plain" they literally are the rough first draft, they are the only thinking thing that existed with Iluvatar so far, so them being plain makes perfecf sense. Plus, usually cartoon-esc villains like these don't get much of a backstory or a "how did we get here" at all. Instead we know exactly why and how every Tolkien character is the way they are and how they became the way they are. Morgoth started out good just like all the other Valar, he just had a biiit too much ambition which turned into arrogance, which lead to him becoming the personification of evil. Sauron started out good too just like all the other Maiar, I think he was just hyperlogical from the start, and his idea of "order" was messed up even before Morgoth came in and multiplied the messed up-ness by 1000, either way he was not set to evil by default, no Tolkien chatacter is (ig Orcs and dragons don't count, since they quite like were created flr the sole purpose to serve evil, those are the only ones set on evil by default). We know Fëanor acts the way he acts because since childhood he's been praised for being such a perfect dude (which also happened for Morgoth and Sauron, everyone around them liked them because they were, indeed, the greatest of their kind respectively, until they weren't) so now he actually goes around bragging about how cool he and his new shiny rocks are. We know Fingolfin and Finarfin aren't assholes like Fëanor (I love him too, i'm not hating on him lol)because their mother raised them right,we know Fingolfin is the way he is because he's a mix of his father and his mother's personality traits, we know Finarfin is the way he is because he moslty resembles his mother. I could go on forever with tons of other characters but I think this is enough to get the point across.
@@guifdcanalli "in a way Morgoth despises the universe as a whole and wants a new universe of his own, through the destruction of the present one" So that's where Darkseid got the specific idea of creating a new universe in his image rather than stopping at destroying it or being content to rule over the current one.
I got to say Morgoth and Sauron are both almost like partcial representations of the mental aspects of the Biblical fallen angel Satan (Who might be named Gadriel in First Enoch and his other name in Jubilee is Mastema) of the Garden of Eden in behaviors, thought process, fruits, and ideology. Like Morgoth, Satan (or Mastema) is called Chaos in First Enoch and though he is limited in power and retrained by the Archangel Michael however like Morgoth, Mastema is spiteful and hold grudes against men, the seven Archangels, and Yahuah. It is likely he treats allies who could rival his power like the 200 Watcher Fallen Angels in First Enoch who were also called Satans before they were locked up as threats. And those who unknowningly serve him are treated like expendable garbage like in Jubilee when he is allowed to for a short time to be partcially set loose he kills the first born of the Egyptians who don't have blood painted on their door post without a second thought including Pharoah's son for his own craving for death to men to appease his hatred of us. (Jubilee says this). Sauron is pretty good at deceiving but not as subtle and indirect as Mastema is as the latter is restrained most of the time by Michael and being a bounded spiritual being it is his only option. However both are capable of warping and twisting entire belief systems into decending into evil wicked doctrines and theologies. Sauron doing this in Numenor, and Mastema pretty much throughout the world though he is not alone in doing this and has aid from the disembodied nephilim spirits (demons) he commands. Though they do not often accuse as much both Morgoth and Sauron do accuse Eru Iluvatar and the Valar with their delusional lies and perceptions just as Satan does with pretty much almost everyone and everything that he doesn't like. And like him they both become more delusional and wickedly insane as they become more evil over time and think themselves as rulers and gods of the world. And they all share the same fate where they fall in the end and get what is the righteous punishment they deserve for all their evils and disappear into ashes for all eternity.
I really need to go look at the Book of Enoch again, since I don't remember any of that. My only recollection of Satan in the OT was in Job where he's just a guy asking questions, and it's YHWH who is causing all the suffering (which fits with the OT narrative that all things come from God, both good and bad). I however don't buy into the notion that Satan was the serpent in Genesis.
@@atraxisdarkstar It is actaully heavily said he was there in the Garden of Eden multiple times and his sin was deceiving Adam and Havilah (Eve). However one big misconception we keep implementing is that he's an archangel when it was never said that he was and the name Lucifer doesn't fit how angelic names usually go which normally end with "el" standing for a elohim. which in Ancient Hebrew means "Heavenly being". So it could be that name was added into Bible canon sometime later by institutions who translates them pretty fraudly often. It's clear he once was a special unique kind of angel with a special duty such as taking care of the Garden of Eden but not the same in raw power like Micheal who is the leader of the seven Archangels is. Another thing. The War in Heaven event is only mentioned in Revelations during the Tribulation not Genesis, First Enoch, or Jubliee. So when churches keep advocating for that doctrine that it took place in the beginning of creation don't know what they are talking about. So it hasn't happened yet. I suggest you check out a Bible research youtube channel called "The God Culture" to get a better understanding of this. They been around for over 5 years and have done hundreds videos covering real scripture and sometimes contrasting occult based frauds which they test. They have entirely covered the books of Jubilees and 2nd Esdras with series of videos called "Answers In Jubilees", "Answers in 2nd Esdras", and are currently covering First Enoch as we speak with "Answers in First Enoch" Series. I often like them more then other ones because they go in depth and test it while other researchers do not and simply make their own paradigms that fits their interpretations without testing it in depth. Up to you I am simply handling out a source I prefer from most. Yahuah and Yahusha Elohim bless.
This video was unbelievably awesome!! Well done sir. There is one thing in the beginning I wish you would have put in. You mentioned Melkor being the strongest of his tier, the Valar. If I'm not mistaken, Sauron was also the strongest of the second tier, the Miar. And, others in the second tier included the wizards. Obviously such as Gandalf and Sauruman who were no where near as powerful as Sauron.
Easy: one is a genius god-like sorcerer that infused his malevolent spirit within a ring and the other is the sentient cosmic force of pure evil that infused his very essence within the entirety of Arda.
Morgoth literally corrupted the entirety of the world, he was only second in power to Eru. Sauron was an ant to Morgoth. It's too bad so many people don't go beyond the Hobbit and LoTR
Morgoth is inherently more powerful than Sauron by default because he was a Valar and Sauron was a Maiar. There’s no denying Morgoth is beyond Sauron in terms of power, but in my opinion, Sauron is a far more interesting character and villain. Not to mention, for all the power Morgoth had, he was a bit of a coward and was humiliated by Tulkas.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 I think there's a different reason for him to think so. Morgoth was far more evil than Sauron, the more evil someone becomes the more one dimensional their character development is.
I think it was about the attire. Margoth came dressed in the "gimmie your lunch money" style of swag, whereas Sauron's dress code was a little more subdued but terrible. He gave the impression that, he could have stood on that bridge, like Gandolf, facing down a balrog, slamming down his mace and screaming, "Who's your daddy?"
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Sauron initially had some genuine claim to at some positive intent. His desire for order came from the right place, a desire for things to work properly. Granted it devolved into a desire to control everything but compared to Morgoth "destroy everything and recreate it in my image" when he doesn't have the power to create is still a better goal
If you read his note, you will know that he delved deeply into practically every detail. But ok, there are things that he provide absolutely minimal info like Tom Bombadil, that just mindfck readers to no end.
Tolkiens complete works will always be on paper When they were making the fellowship of the ring people thought it would be a complete embarrassment Sean Connery was supposed to play Gandalf
The right hand of Melkor/Morgoth was not Sauron, but instead was Gothmog the Lord Of the Balrog. But you were right in some detail such as Sauron is "The Brain" of Angband while Gothmog is "The Muscle".
Sauron became to Morgoth what Saruman became to Sauron. Possibly with the same reasons. If you look at the Valar who are espoused they appear to be opposite heads of the same coin. Classic summary of this is Aule and Yavanna. Especially in the chapter of Silmarrilion where Yavanna upbraids Aule for keeping the creation of the Khazad secret from her. Or Tulkas the warrior espousing Nessa the dancer. A balance of innate but slightly differing abilities!
Makes me wonder what kind of dark lord Saruman would have been considering his obsession wasn’t wrath, or order, but for of a Faustian need for ultimate knowledge and a desire to peel back all the secrets of the universe.
Sauron: So, master, I believe that if we lure the main phalanx of the valar’s forces to attack us by venturing deep in the roots of the world, we can trap them into an unwinnable war of attrition that will… Morgoth: Yeah, yeah, that’s fascinating… Hey, say, me and that bigass spider over there are off to steal the Silmarils, so don’t wait for us, we won’t be back before a while. Okay bye !
Your intro of the chaos of Morgoth and the desire for order by Sauron really reminds me of Emperor Palpatine and the downfall of Anakin Skywalker through the corruption of Anakin’s desire for order.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
I have no idea why this was suggested to me. The closest thing is watching video analysis of other works of literature but not in this genre Yet the thumbnail intrigued me. I read the haven’t read any of Tolkien works since I was child & by the looks of the comment section, I am clearly not in a target audience. But this was exemplary. This is one of the well thought out videos Ive seen in awhile. The work and effort was obvious. I am seriously considering putting the works I have chosen for the rest of the Summer on the back burner and pick up where I left off decades ago
Love it. Awesome artwork too. Just getting back into my Tolkein, since the god awful amazon series came out, though as Iluvatar said to Melkor in the beginning, everything you try to do will just turn back round to my greatness, so while Bezoz and amazon try to ignorantly and belligerently blast horns of deafening simplicity and brashness, attempting to steal the glory of Tolkein for themselves, they actually only lead people back to his writings with a deeper appreciation and love. That guy was a deep deep man, and I love him!
Morgoth - or Melkor, his real name - was much more powerful than Sauron could ever hope to become. He was an so called Ainur, one of the mighty entities which were creating the world under the old god Illuvatar. Melkor sabotaged his part of the creation. He made armies of Balrogs, Dragons and corrupted elves to become the first orcs. Sauron was only a much weaker successor compared to the might of Morgoths evil reign. He only used the leftovers of the evil powers.
@@polketex5043 I wouldn't say he was smarter, I'd hold them equally in terms of intellect, i'm not sure about who of them rules the longest, but I'm sure Sauron gets more "screentime" while doing so, that's why we get the idea he was smarter, he was shown doing more smart things than Melkor was, but that doesn't mean he didn't do them as well, some of the smart things he is shown doing are no joke: he tricks the Valar and manages to turn the Noldor against them in what?Weeks?Also, Sauron isn't a better written character, he has more depth as a character, but Melkor being as "plain" as he is wasn't bad writing, it was completely intentional as it works with the setting he was introduced in. I wouldn't say any Tolkien character is badly written, i'd put it as just that some of them are more complicated and grey than others who are either all good or all evil. In fact, I believe it is genuilly hard to dislike any Tolkien character because of how greatly-written all of them are, I can't hate any character unless they were written in a way that was supposed to get them hated (the only example I can think of is Eöl lol).
Actually they did not end up in the same place. Morgoth is bound but supposedly will some day break free somehow and start one last battle/war. Sauron however is permanently reduced to nothing more than a wind/bad dream in a person's head.
An important thing to note is that Morgoth and Sauron are operating on massively different power scales - Morgoth is quite literally a dark god, whereas Sauron is closer to a fallen angel in form (being on the same level as the wizards of middle earth, Gandalf, Saruman - who incidentally served the same deity as Sauron initially did). While each one was significantly more powerful than their peers - Morgoth was much more powerful than any of the valar individually and nearly too much for them even together, and Sauron was significantly more powerful than a standard Balrog (a fellow fallen maiar - spirits on the same level who had also fallen to darkness) or any of his former fellow maiar - the difference in power between a maiar like Sauron and one of the Valar like Morgoth is so significant that while all of the valar banded together and waged war against Melkor themselves, they did nothing while Sauron nearly conquered Arda twice - trusting in the mortal races and their servant(s) (cough, Gandalf, cough - since one of the other wizards turned, and other three were completely useless) to stop him. Morgoth represents the unstoppable force of chaos as that discordant note in the song of creation (quite literally what he was); while Sauron is an inventor who saw an imperfect world and wanted to destroy it, so he could remake a perfect one (a philosophy that appeals to his former colleague Saruman, who was also originally a servant of the god of craft). In the end, the interesting thing is that neither is explicitly evil - rather they're simply following their inherent natures. Tolkien's biggest theme was that it's actions that are either evil or good, not necessarily the people who make them (Boromir fell to darkness, but redeemed himself; so did Frodo; Aragorn hid away for 50-60 years letting Gondor and the cities of men languish in the growing darkness; Saruman was initially a great force for good, but he fell to the same cynicism as Sauron - that idea that the world is broken and needs to be remade).
I think Sauron in the 3rd age had lost his mind due to his body being destroyed by Eru and then losing his ring. Kinda like how Voldemort became more and more insane as he made more Horcruxes. So to understand Sauron's true nature and motivation we have to examine the Sauron before the destruction of Numenor. The most important factor for Sauron's motivation is Eru's plan for Middle Earth: All magics will fade away, and there will only be humans. Sauron does not like that, he wish the world could run in perfection forever without aging and deterioration. His rings of power were in fact the only thing keeping the elves stay powerful in Middle Earth. After destroying them, the elves had to leave or they will wither away. But only elves had a place to go, other magical species had no other option but to go extinct, and that's what happened in 4th age according to Eru's plan. I believe Sauron originally really wanted to "save" Middle Earth from such fate, but complete order and harmony also means everything will be under his watch and control.
If Sauron had won and ruled Middle-Earth, how would he react if Morgoth returned? Would he war against the other Dark Lord? An ultimate battle between Tyrannical Law and Infernal Chaos?
@@RoScFan Indeed, The Valar, Sauron’s forces, and various Orcbands vs Gondor resistance groups, the Elves, and Morgoth. That would be a good fight to see.
AAAACTUALLY-There's a thing Tolkien wrote that sadly didn't make it's way trough the Legendarium, either way it says that, yup. Eventually Morgoth will come back to Arda and this event will trigger the Battle of the Battles which is essentially the apocalypse in Tolkien mithology. I don't know if it's canon but i think it should be, what do ya'll think?
@@grassblock7668 well in Tolkien Mythology, Apocalypse technically already happened for three times anyway (First & Second Valar War, Great War of Beleriand and the Fall of Numénor), tbh what OP said here will just become another Beleriand War, Im not really eager to see that tbh
Sauron was not "0-2" in combat. He personally defeated Finrod, Huan (before Lúthien intervened that is), Celebrimbor, Elendil, and Gil-galad, but because he was weakened by the combined might of the latter two and possibly even by Elrond and Isildur who were also present, that came at the cost of his physical form for a time. He still took two of the mightiest fighters at the time with him, killing them both brutally before Isildur used his exhaustion to cut the Ring off him. People constantly underestimate and inaccurately recount Tar-Mairon's fighting prowess. Technically you can also count Saruman and Denethor as defeats as these were contests of will he won, similar to his magical duel with Finrod. He could have won many more fights if he wanted to, he simply preferred not to. He also put too much faith in his orcs, who were rather stupid and useless without him literally focusing all of his energy on mentally controlling them constantly. This was an army of thousands that would have easily crushed the Men of the West had the Ring not been compromised at that very moment. Constantly maintaining them all at the same time to fight more effectively and to the death is a huge testament to his power alone. Now just imagine if all of his servants were competent enough to not need his mental supervision and he could go about his day with all of his power in reserve and focused on other things.
There’s all that and the fact that he seemed to only lose the ring due to a bad judgment call. It looked like Sauron was trying to gloat and burn isildur when he could have just smashed his head in easy. Sauron got too cocky and suffered for it, but in power and prowess he was basically unbeatable in that battle with his ring. Sauron spelled out his own defeat in that final moment.
@@J99___ In the film that's accurate, in the book Isildur took advantage of him being weakened and disoriented after killing Gil-galad and Elendil to deal the final blow. But it is very much in line with his character to gloat. Had he left the Ring in the Tower, he never would have lost it. Had he not stayed on Númenor after conquering it to laugh at the invasion of Valinor, he never would have lost his ability to assume a fair form. Had he not underestimated Lúthien and deemed her a pretty trophy to give to his master, he would never have suffered his first defeat at her hands. His pride outweighed his cunning at the worst of times, but to be fair this was not without merit as he certainly would have won had God Himself not directly intervened to thwart him twice, sinking Númenor with him on it and pushing Gollum into Mount Doom with his Ring. Eru never did play fair.
Absolutely love how you break it down. I'm a huge fan of the LotR and the hobbit but I never read the books maybe 1 day. But you fill in the voids of story perfectly.
Morgoth was one of the Valar. Sauron was one of the Maiar. Morgoth was a greater spirit. He was far more powerful than Sauron. Sauron is actually of the same order of spirits (Maiar) as Gandalf is. And Sauron was one of Morgoths lieutenants.
Morgoth poured so much of his power into the corruption of Arda it diminished him greatly so much that he need a bunch of Balrogs to save him when momma spider turned on him.
@@cb2000a Morgoth definitely didnt created Balrogs as they are Maiar that joined his side. He didnt create any Maiar. He really didnt even create anything Tolkien was very clear on that Evil does not create. Orcs and dragons were forms of life he just twisted into evil forms. For orcs he used elves what he used for dragons is never stated.
@@bigguy130 not at all equal infact Gandalf was scared of going to middle earth in the first place because of Sauron. Now if Gandalf used the one ring that would be another story. Gandalf the Black would probably stomp Sauron
New subscriber here but you missed Morgoth's worst and most hateful crime towards Iluvatar, the creation of the orcs made from twisted and tortured elves.
Morgoth was a Dark Souls boss. Like...literally. His duel against an elf played out exactly like a generic Dark Souls boss fight. Huge telegraphed attacks countered by perfect i-frame dodges. Fingolfin only ended up dying in that fight because he missed a dodge, and even then, Morgoth ended up permanently injured (and probably humiliated) by the end of it. Dude claimed to be the biggest and baddest bitch in the world, but couldn't even clutch a 1v1 against _an elf._
The high elves that lived in Valinor were empowered during their time there, by the light of the two trees and the tutelage of the Ainur. Simply living in Valinor made elves more powerful. They became in a sense like Maiar, they were not ordinary elves. This is also part of Feanor's sin, he was so arrogant in his skill and his Silmarils but never would have been that skilled or able to create the Silmarils without the Ainur's help. Even so they were no match for Morgoth. Filgolfin only managed to stab him in the foot, because Morgoth was overconfident and underestimated him, and in the end even if Filgolfin had managed to strike a lethal blow he still wouldn't have been able to destroy Morgoth who can live without a physical form. Morgoth never needed to fight Filgolfin, he probably could have killed him without moving a muscle, he wanted to beat him one on one out of pride.
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I feel the two dark lords are meant to embody the essence of the two world wars. Morgoth being WW1, pointless destruction/violence without any real motive. Sauron as WW2/hitler, having an oversimplified authoritarian idea of world order as well as grudges carried over from the first conflict.
Interesting consideration, but I don't know if Tolkien ever tought about that.
Thats a cool idea
@@marcoparente7352 nobody knows exactly what his thoughts were. I think it's notable tho that the fall of the second dark lord heralded a new world order of general prosperity and peace, similar to the aftermath of WW2.
@@OrangesodaTR well, also the fall of the first dark lord...
@@OrangesodaTR Ha that's funny because we don't have peace at all we have merely entered an era of vanilla flavoured control with sprinkles ontop.
Eru Iluvatar: all right, guys. Let's create the universe with a song.
Morgoth: *plays death metal on guitar*
Universe or just a planet?
@@Tenchi707 (Eä) univers
Eru was a jack ass. Morgoth with all his fault, never got any explanation why he should not be creative. Eru just told him off for trying to be different.
@@dutchmilkall Eru did was remind Melkor his purpose is to enact Eru's vision of the world, his own vision is Eru's.
@dutchmilk The problem wasn't being creative. It was that Morgoth was ruining everyone else's creativity. Also, his song sucked.
Until you read The Silmarillan you will only know a fraction of the story. Sauron was but a shadow of Melkor. ALL evil comes from Melkor. Sauron, by contrast, was just a one of the Maiar.
"....But in the years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walk behind him on the same ruinous path down in the void"
Let me put it this way: if you think Sauron was evil and powerful, Morgoth is on a different level of toughness and being sinister. This is like saying Shang Tsung or Darth Vader or Megatron/Galvatron is tough and evil, but Shao Khan or Darth Sidious or Unicron or the Fallen (both are M3gatron's/Galvatron's masters) is on another level of toughness and evil.
@@123ucr feel like megatron and Unicron are a good comparison. Megatron being Sauron doesnt believe himself to be pure evil depending on which megatron we talking about. they believe they need to rule in order to create order. Unicron and Morgoth are just Pure chaos and evil out for total annihilation of all
If it was his plan anyway, all evil technically comes from Illuvitar.
Dr doom shits on all these names. Cease your panting, minion.
Silmarion was made since Marvel was not even created😂@@cupyay7512
Sauron: I'm not evil! I'm just misunderstood!
Morgoth: Oh yeah, evil. TOTALLY evil. Absolutely.
Funny how that works right?
Lucifer and Satan basically
Nah nah nah, more like. Morgoth knew he was in the wrong he was a rebellious child. Sayron genuinely believed he had the right to rule and that makes him way worse. Because he essentially becomes a hitlet character. (Funny how the story kinda matches tolkiens life yhrougj ww1 and ww2 huh)
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@@adejal lucifer means bringer of light and is a title; satan is referred to in the book of job. It means the opposer of God. Reread it sometime
Morgoth fought his war on a whole other level. He became physically weak because he infused his essence into the matter of middle earth itself. While he rarely fought directly, he reached a point where his power over middle earth was so great that he could literally will the ruin of people he didn't like (Turin) and going to war with him eventually came to mean going to war with the substance of Middle Earth.
As was once said by the author, Sauron had a ring, but the whole of middle earth was in a real sense Morgoth's ring.
Indeed, *everything* that was and is faul/evil is because of Morgoth and will remain so untill the reshaping of arda.
Morgoth May have lost the war for Middle Earth, but you cant deny he won the war for its soul.
Yes, Morgoth added evil to Middle Earth during the song. After descending into Middle Earth he wrought physical changes and poured power into his followers as seen when he was nearly overcome by Ungoliant after poisoning the trees and stealing the Silmarils. His ties to the very stuff of Arda were so strong that the Valar long avoided all out war due to the devastation it would (and later did) bring completely changing the face of Arda.
Correction: Morgoth infused his essence into Arda, not just Middle Earth. Arda is the the whole world, Middle Earth is the continent where most of the action takes place.
@@karlwikman3874 - So, Satan.
Even though Morgoth was the most powerful, I feel like Sauron is probably the scariest in terms of his personality. Morgoth is the embodiment of chaos, but in a way that makes him sort of predictable in the end, while Sauron is a master manipulator that can be anyone or influence anyone to do his indirect bidding, and might even come across as sympathetic. It sorta feels like Morgoth is the Devil while Sauron is more like the Antichrist. He may be a "lesser" evil, but his unpredictable presence is terrifying.
(also, I wish we could've seen Morgoth's army. Not just orcs and trolls, but also werewolves, vampires, wights, balrogs, giant spiders etc. Like the army itself is just pure chaos; a nightmarish mish-mash of your worst nightmares coming pouring over the hills towards you)
Sauron also seems like a better embodiment of Absolute Power imo, from a Narrative Persephone. His manipulative nature is like how tempting/appealing Absolute Power and Control can be sometimes. Everybody thinks that if they had the power to rule the world, they would be able to fix everything. Even Sauron thinks that if he could just rule Middle Earth everything would be great, he's just gotta stamp out these pesky Rebels first. It's always a trap however, as Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. That's of course why the One Ring corrupts peoples minds-
Morgoth seems like an extension of this idea, as supposedly he enfused his essence into the the land itself, similar to Sauron attaching himself to The One Ring. Corruption and Power will always exist in the world, its pressence has become interwoven into Middle Earth itself now. There will always be Saurons who try to take it. As long as Morgoth exists, there will always be Saurons who strive to be like him. One to embody Power, the other to crave it.
That's how I think of it tho, kinda like the Sith from Star Wars and their "Rule of Two"
In scripture "Satan" (the adversary) as in Samael, the entity in the Book of Job and the Fall, isn't Evil.
In fact, he hates humans because of our evil and ungrateful natures. His failure/sin is that he thought he knew better than God. He assumed he knew how to punish humanity better than the Creator, the All, God.
Much the same for The Anti Christ. (It is a spiritual state of humans who are in constant sin/failure in measurement to their acknowledgement or lack there of to the Holy Spirit in us all - Hence "there will be many anti christs)
There is a figure known as the Son of perdition as well, which is mentioned. And it is that form of anti Christ behavior that will trick the world into solving problems that only exist due to false realities. And even then the Beast and the beast system turn on the Son of perdition and try to wound/kill him (inner conflict of power struggle amongst evil people)
@@LifeWasGood and like to know where Scripture says that Satan isn't evil but wants to punish evil in his own way.
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the Book of Job
the Root word for sin is failure, to miss the target.
it's a cannanite hebrewic word we're saying in English phonetics
And as an ex-atheist I think it's quite Evil to assume you think or know better than God himself. (as the atheistic mind is as such and shares a psyche with Samael, the poison of God, the accuser/Satan.)
He is not evil in the cliche or narrow minded ways humans see things (Satan doesn't murder or steal, etc.) We do that, as free willed humans.
But he is evil for thinking his intelligence surpasses the source of that intelligence. And because as a celestial entity his foreknowledge would be more than other creatures, and so "He knew better" but still chose otherwise.
hence his Fall.
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*1 Job 6-12*
"6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. 11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. 12And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD."
[I also want to show that Satan does not have any domain or power of his own. He doesn't rule Hell, and infact it was made for him.]
Matthew 25:41
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels."
We already Knew of good and evil, each of us innately feels the call, pulse, or tug of the Holy Spirit, the guiding Rod That God put in us all. Even Eve and Adam knew of this already, and in genesis it shows that Satan had to lie about that fact of reality.
He also was smited in genesis, and fractured.
Satan isn't a god or lesser god. Not even a deity. He doesn't rule Hell or Demons.
All he can do is convince others to fail as he did and get them to renounce God, because Samael is a salty jealous thing.
Sauron was originally a craftsman Maia serving under the Valar that created dwarves, I think. It's a beautifully sad arc, Sauron's. His desire for beauty and order ultimately created ugliness and chaos over thousands of years of corruption.
In a way, Sauron was Morgoth's ultimate revenge. He twisted a beautiful angel into his successor in destruction.
Love that
Now we know who helped dwarf chiks growing beards! xD
Desiring imposed order is ugly.
And in turn Sauron twisted the hearts of men being the sole reason the Numenoreans all perished.
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
I wonder if Sauron's obsession with Order is why the creators of 'The Shivering Isles' expansion for 'The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion' made Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order, heavily resemble Sauron's armored form from the Peter Jackson films.
Jyggalag was not necessarily evil, he was in truth against all of the Daedra as he was against everything that all of them stood for, including the Aedra. Order is anti-freedom, pro-conformity, everyone does as they are told instead of however they wish. And he mostly fell because he attacked all of the Daedra at once, he didn't have cunning, deception, or patience, nor was he malevolent or benevolent, he represented an idea more than anything.
But after being free from his curse of having to destroy his own realm (which deeply offended him since it was the utter opposite of him; Chaos), he gave up his power, allowed the new Sheogorath to rule.
If Jyggalag had been in Sauron's place, things would have gone dramatically different. He never would've crafted a Ring. He never would have tried to trick people as he isn't capable of it. And he'd be against Morgoth from the start. He'd probably be the only who would stop at nothing for the utter annihilation of Morgoth, cause as mentioned, Morgoth represents Chaos. But he'd also very likely be the first to die considering the massive difference in power.
@@Gyrannon nice.. but that doesn't answer the dudes question..
Yes. Supposedly according to one of the devs (think it was Kirkbride iirc) they also rewrote entirety of Cyrodiil in Oblivion to resemble more like Lord of the Rings because Todd Howard really liked the movies, rather than what was presented before in prior lore where it was jungle Rome with Asian elements
@@anamaaes9218 sad really because we could have gotten a much more interesting ES4. But they always have their "dragon break" cop out to deal with in lore inconsistencies
@@Gyrannon "power difference"
U have morgot who can probably destroy the universe where middle earth is
Then u have jyggylag who is a prince of uncountable dimensional realms who are higher dimensional and can control them at will
Even weak princes like peryte and sanguine hold at least more then I think 80K or more higher dimensional realms, and each can be destroy and manipulated by them at will
Kind of interesting to ponder the fact that if Morgoth had not had help from the balrogs to save him, Ungoliant would have devoured him.
Imagine if Ungoliant become the ultimate antagonist character in The Silmarilion instead of Melkor lmao
@@Test-mq8ih Yes, that would have been interesting to see how Tolkein would have handled that plot twist.
Ungoliant wouldve grown so powerful Eru wouldve had to intervene.
Only because Ungoliant absorbed the trees power
But that probably only happened because by that point, Melkor had spend enormous amounts of his power, while Ungoliant had just devoured the power from the 2 trees. Like a freshly rested and juiced boxer going up against an exhausted one, who just fought 5 matches right before that in a row.
In short:
Morgoth is chaotic evil
Sauron is lawfull evil
Correct
Exactly
Who is the neutral evil then? Saruman since he used "evil" as a tool but got corrupted by it? Or maybe Ungoliath since it's like a force of nature?
@@yuomovaeh3028 Saruman neutral, ungoliath chaotic...she turns on her allies
Stalin
Hitler
Morgoth was awesome
dude was 1v14 and still managed to win 2 time
And don't forget his creation like glaurung, dragons and balrog
He merged himself with the world itself.
And he's still alive
That’s what makes it terrifying. Sauron might be gone, but in the end, Morgoth will return and bring the end
@@Sannabon92Sauron isnt really "gone" as well tho. He just has no way of ever forming a body again or interacting with anything on his own.
@@thahoule7924 true, but would he still be a threat? I’d like to know if he’d try anything again after the ring was destroyed
dude there are just fantasy characters @@Sannabon92
@@Sannabon92nope. he is doomed to witness the development of civilization and the world for an eternity, but he can't influence it at all.
There was a note from Tolkien when he actually wrote Sauron's original name before his corruption was Mairon "The Admirable" and he's been called Sauron that means "The Abhorred" or "The Abominable" by the elves after Morgoth corrupted him. Sauron is similar to a fallen angel that wants to make the Earth his own Hell. His ambition is also connected to his own nature, as a Maia he's one the most powerful being in the Tolkien's world, so he can't be satisfied by ruling a single region like common races do, he wants to use his power to bend the all world to his own will and his wish after that could be to ascend his nature by becoming a God himself
Maia*
@@feliciaf8 Maia is the name of the class of spirits he belongs, i just noticed i wrote it wrong :P
Sauron is still my favourite villian what he lacked in physical strength he made up for it in intelligence he had big boots to fill for a being much more limited in power he deserves credit I'm more of a fan of his "control and dominate" style than Morgoth's nihilistic "destroy it all" approach. I also like that through Sauron's actions and manipulations, Eru literally had to change the shape of the world. I enjoy Sauron's obsession with craft, a nod to his service to Aule, and him being the thorn in the side of men, elves and dwarves for thousands of years.
Yes Sauron was much less powerful than Melkor, his former master but he did manage to not get caught when the Valar imprisoned Morgoth. He also survived the onslaught of Ar-Pharazon of Numenor whose army was one of the most powerful gathered after the First Age and by his cunning rose high in the King's favor and tempted him to invade Valinor. He then survived the Breaking of the World and retreated to Middle-Earth where he rebuilt Mordor and caused great harm to the People there. He managed to survive the taking of the Ring by Isildur and slowly and cunningly rose to power again until he was finally undone by the destruction of the Ring. Even though he was much less powerful, he outlasted Morgoth by his cunning and deceit and I guess he deserves a bit of credit for that In my opinion, Sauron is the more charismatic, intelligent, wiser, and interesting of the two characters.
still evil.
@@stephenandersen4625 it's called appreciating a well written villain dummy
I agree entirely. I think that Sauron has more layers and more complex as a character. Morgoth is more a ripoff of Satan, but Sauron is a little more. Twice he nearly brought middle-earth under his heel, yet in the beginning, was too weak to achieve this by force and did it mainly with stealth and elaborate plans (especially in the beginning). Yet Sauron in the end, just became Morgoth, in that he made the same mistakes and despite all his cunning, he couldn’t conceive that strength and help could come from place like the hobbits.
I feel like sauron merely got lucky that the humans were so easy to control. Had isildur destroyed the ring, he would be finished. Before that, ar- pharazaon spared him in his vanity and overconfidence. Stupid fools.....
@Jim Harrington if u have read silmarillon, u will know morgoth was all of those too. It's just that he was strong enough to not merely resort to trickery at every turn. Sauron was lesser than his master in every way. Of course, LoTR hardly gives us a clear scale of power or a relative scale of abilities between characters.
I’d argue that Sauron’s world would be far from lawless and violent. He craved order. All the wonton violence and destruction and such was a means to an end. We can even see from Sauron’s proposed treaty at the black gate that he was cool with other nation’s maintaining order in his name. It might have been rigidly structured or enforced, but Sauron would not have wanted anything relating to recklessness or even violence beyond that explicitly sanctioned by him (e.g. formal executions and such)
Then why orc are with sauron? Orc arent peaucefull people
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Even just his death leads to their catastrophic demise, so I take it he has severe control over their rights to existence, the ability to make them vanish with the snap of a finger would he so desire. Fear must certainly be a main contributor, if not a false promise of power.
His craving for order doesn't rule out violence. In fact, in his world view, that is revolving just around power, it will inevitably lead to "Might makes right", violence will prevail.
sauron craved order by destroying human and elven race which itself is chaos and disorder.
and it was not means to and end. because his first aim was not order but to rule me.
@@pincessenico4566 If we are to believe this idea, the Orcs would just be tools. Means to an end. Or, alternatively, they'd be enforcers of imposed order rather than a natural one.
It's a very good video; excellent work done! A few comments from me - becoming part of Arda was Melkor's way to take it over. In the aftermath, he is partially always 'alive' whatever happens to his spirit. Arda is corrupted and will be as long as it exists. The other thing is that Malkor is not entirely gone - he is in the Void, but being connected to the world keeps the possibility for his return open. So we are expecting a final battle, destruction of the corrupted Arda and the creation of a brand new world. Same for Sauron - we don't know what actually happened to him, as being ainu loss of the body is not the end of the line.
With regards to the fate of Sauron, as he put a large portion of his spirit into the creation of the one ring, with its destruction it’s feasible he was fully destroyed unlike melkor who’s sprit still remains as a part of arda itself.
"In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself."
~ J. R. R. Tolkien, "Valaquenta"
"Morgoth is just a big baby" is such an accurate description. He basically spends all his time throwing tantrums that cause chaos
I think it's more like he just does things that are out of sync with Illuvitar's order, which inevitably creates disruption.
'From a certain point of view' it could be argued that 'evil' in Tolkien's universe is just a result of the clashing between two different divine wills, both believing that they represent the correct way of doing things.
I doubt Morgoth would actually want to create a world that was objectively evil, he just rebelled against Illuvitar's way and chaos was the inevitable result.
It's also important to remember that Morgoth was himself created by Illuvitar, which suggests that evil was always a part of the plan all along. It seems like God needed the Devil
I mean his alignment is obvious chaotic evil.
say you wanted to play a game but everyone else wants to play a different one and god chose theme over you, would you not be irritated and start playing it passive aggressively
@@AeneasGemini Morgoth wasn't a divine will opposing another divine will, but a creature, a created being, opposing God. To fight against Eru's will is to be evil.
Morgoth wanted to create, that is, to be God. Eru's plan had little to do with it. Had Eru said, "I'll make everything exactly as you want," Morgoth would still rebel because Eru would still be God.
As for God needing Satan & evil (or Eru needing Morgoth & evil), this thinking comes from a poor understanding of Free Will & omniscience. God wanted Satan/Lucifer/the Devil to be Good, to follow Him, and so gave him free will so that he could. He also had the omniscience to know the result. The choice would always be Satan's though. For God to destroy that choice, that free will, would be for God to destroy that being.
@@markuhler2664 it depends but if Eru can see the future (which I’m pretty sure he can) then Morgoth is definitely intended, though Tolkien might have made Eru as a being not able to know the future, Tolkien from the quotes I have seen is ambiguous, since it could be interpreted that Eru created all possibilities but the beings of Eä can “freely choose” which possibilities.
I love it when people can break down the lore of a series. I do this a lot with Dune, but not so much online as in person
I'm obsessed with dune 😍. I can't wait to see the second installment.
I love morgoth because he's such a perfect character development of absolute evil. He was so powerful but because of his decline into evil he just became more and more bitter and petty and ultimately just a vindictive sniveling shell of his former power.
Vindictive sniveling shell of his former power, nice, bro.
Of course if you become darkness then you are utterly blind.
This is the eloquence you get from watching Spongebob
I don’t believe in absolute evil but I do believe in absolute good- JRR Tolkien.
Melkor was not evil to begin. But he was the creator of all evil
From the grand scope of things, considering that all Ainur are children of Iluvatar, I often see Melkor's actions as one of those naughty kids in the house attempting get his parents' attention by being "playful", and in return all he get his rejection and scolding, which ultimately caused the kid to get angry, rebel, and leave the house.
It's even sadder when Melkor was trying to add his own theme to the music or mess around with the creation, Iluvatar simply told him and that his attempts to create further chaos will only end up serving his will as those things will ultimately bring out a more precious form a beauty (and those words were indeed fulfilled at the end of all things). Melkor was basically told by his parent that no matter what he does, following or rebeling, he is doing and will always be doing the exact thing his parent wanted him to do. Imagine how mad and powerless he felt when he heard that.
As I recall, Sauron, being trained under the universe's greatest smith, was once capable of great works. I imagine he envisioned great and beautiful structures and systems when he first dared to imagine Arda and MiddleEarth under his guidance. But I also imagine he thought of it in a static vacuum. I doubt he comprehended how things would coexist and operate under the true nature of Life...Life which constantly grows and changes, things Sauron tends to dislike. Even a simple forest is a complexity that any fortification or settlement must adapt to. His penchant for jagged designs and crude metal might be an attempt at efficiency and intimidation during his war campaigns, but I often wonder how he actually envisioned civilization to go under his rule. He seemed to think he knew what was best FOR the peoples of MiddleEarth, if only they'd go along with him. Naturally, they resist, he has to connive and war and deceive them and the focus of his original goal just gets eclipsed. But, in his ideal world, where everyone says, "oh yes, of course, Mairon, right this way, excellent idea, yes." What would it look like? As you pointed out, he seems to default to wiping out growth, and as we know, he has a way of using magic to bypass normal construction and limitations. Would it be a world of metal? Crude constructions and factories? Or, unresisted, would he have sleek constructions akin to Orthanc or Minas Tirith? I think, overall, assigning Maiar to one Valar alone was a slight mistake. Had Sauron learned from Yavanna or other Valar learned in nature, Sauron would better understand the role of life and changing form in the World. Such as it was, he learned much of Aule's knowledge of earth and fire, but as a Maiar he may not have perceived his sense of balance with the World and the other Valar.
I think he would try to make the world like a model. He would want everything to be perfect and yet, people move about and break things. His only solution to this would be to freeze people in place and pose them. Honestly would be a hellscape with people frozen in place for eternity in "perfect" cities and forests
@@jacobgame2757 The Dark Lord but he’s Lord Business from the Lego Movie of all things
@@jacobgame2757 The Dark Lord but he’s Lord Business from the Lego Movie of all things
@@jacobgame2757 maybe not freeze them, because then he can’t see the ingenuity of his perfect creation in motion. Maybe he just grows insane enough to just puppet the people of middle earth around in there day to day lives perpetually once big brother style tyranny doesn’t cut it.
Sounds like a totalitarian conservative. Also known as F word everyone likes to accuse their opponents of when talking politics.
I think an origin story of Sauron (sort of like better call Saul) and seeing that depicted as the Rings of power primary story line would’ve been super sick. Seeing the slow inevitable corruption of Sauron into the dark lord of the 3rd age would’ve been a pretty sweet anti hero show.
The thing is they can't use anything from the first age. They can only use the stuff that's in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings books
I mean that sorta happens....only it's Galadriel that seems to have corrupted Sauron XD
One of the many ass-backwards things the show has done.
Better Call Sauron
Rings of Power had potential, too bad Amazon wrote Sauron as an idiot incel
@@edgeofhell5966 but whyy was the show hamstrung by such stupid limitations yet could bear the LotR name. The rights management of Tolkien's work makes no sense to me, and I can't wait for it to be in public domain
I love the idea of Sauron and Morgoth ending up in the same spot and Sauron just coming in after the ring is destroyed and sees Morgoth sitting there and they reunite like old college friends
Morgoth is locked away, alone, in an empty void behind a door, somewhere. I think Saurons spirit is trapped floating around middle earth or something
Sauron got the better end of the deal. At least he has something to look at, instead of......nothing. Morgoth must be so bored
@@fritz9830 I mean, the void was kind of what Morgoth/Melkor wanted? He wanted nothing else to exist but him.
Sauron as a bodiless spirit also has a chance to see civilization grow and thrive without him as their guidance. How mortal man can create beautiful things without the will of a god to help them. Seeing the advancement of human civilization would humble and break Mairon.
@@fritz9830 you comment made me thought - if Melkor put all or most his power into Arda itself, then him being locked down outside of space-time (I guess) must have stripped him of that power ... still Eärendil has to be on the watch.
Like cell mates who go over how they got caught and their crimes and what happened etc. Morgoth "fricken tukas" :P
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I feel like it would more be the equivalent to either dad and son or big and little brother. Melkor was a higher being than Sauron and helped create the world. Saurons kind were lesser versions of them created by the same god, so it would probably fit into a more “siblings reunite after centuries apart.”
Would be cool though I agree!!!
I dont think you give Morgoth enough credit here. His actions were organized and directed, he destroyed the world as it was planned to be and infused himself into all of creation itself. He slipped into madness as his actions could not turn into the results he wished. Also he was not a coward, he just knew how to use his power the best way, and that was in manipulation and commanding forces, not in direct confrontation with stronger forces like all the other Vala together.
Morgoth was a coward. Tolkien made it pretty clear morgoth was the embodiment of every negative quality and of all the valar only he knew fear. He was proud, petty, sadistic, cowardly, and a blatant liar. When fingolfin called him out he didn't even want to go out and fight. And when he finally was defeated he begged for pardon without shame. He was absolute evil and thereby, absolutely pathetic.
@@bobdole7451 He was also created that way. Good going, Eru. But this was all part of "the plan".
To be fair he's not getting enough justice here at all, the book tells us how he was the greatest Valar at everything until he wasn't (exactly like Fëanor) he did have a brain and he did use it, only significantly less after Ungoliant almost clapped him. He managed to trick the Valar and literally won a 1 vs 14 fight, twice, he's capable of spreading lies and discord in a hella efficent way, you see him whispering in someone's ear?Well next thing you know, a revolution starts the next day. Also he is capable of manipulating literally everyone, including the Valar . He had enough braincells as we know, in fact the thing that caused his downfall was his ambition, which isn't a bad thing to have, but it might become depending on how you develop as a person (whoops, let's go back to fiction)He wanted to persue an impossible goal, seeing the same goal being persued by someone else (literally God) made him gelous as heck, until he literally looses the capacity to feel any admiration whatsoever towards anything or anyone other than himself, the same thing also leads to him losing the ability to feel love of any kind, so yeahhhh Manwë, 3 ages in prison ain't gonna fix him. He made himself the monster he is, maybe he didn't even mean it, but did he care?Nope, did he try to stop himself from going down that path after realising it?Nope, he did not care 1 bit. He's the embodiment of every evil personality trait to have ever existed, but somehow he's still pretty fascinating as a character (may not be as complex as Sauron and Fëanor, but still), which is probably why many people, including me, actually like him. Also needless to say smart evil characters always work with the fans for some reason lol. Sauron and Melkor are different in substancially their view of the world, the first one wanted to rule the world to make it "perfect", the problem with that is that he viewed the world in a hyperlogical way, throw in the influence of the literal devil and boom, say bye to your ability to have positive feelings Mairon! Very differentlt, the second would literally get mad as hell because someone was smiling in his viewing distance. While one had good intentions but carried them out the wrong way, ultimately yeeting himself into darkness, the second one also had good intentions (at like the extreme beginning though, he wanted to do create life and tried to pretend, line from the book "even with himself" that he wanted to do good to the Elves when he saw them in the vision) but after realising he couldn't do what he wanted, and after accepting his proud ass would not let him do good stuff, he got all whiney and yeeted himself into darkness (while also giving Sauron a "hand" in following him in said yeeting into darkness).
@@TheSuperRatt Nah but for real, Eru here is viewed as a saint but homie was the one that caused it all. Did the Valar not even once think: "Wait, if Melkor is the embodiment of evil and is the cause of all the pain and misery on this planet including ours, and if Eru created Melkor, doesn't that mean...?" And did the Elves never ever think that?I mean we could argue Eru Illuvatar is that one artist or that one writer that shoves tons and tons of trauma and despair into their characters and stories because "why not?" I get it the bro created everything, but does it really justify allowing such horrible things to happen? Are we gonna forget about the one time the son of a delusional guy that followed his father out of fear and loyalty got nailed to a wall? We tend to forget that EVERYTHING that happens is happening because Eru said yes, so I wonder: were all the torturing and enslaving bits necessary, Eru? Also the fact that the Oath of Fëanor affected everyone that even barely came to contact with Fëanor's house was kinda bullshit, I mean cmon.
I just realized I wrote a long ass comment, when everything I said was already summarized in the original one, everything's right exept the coward bit, he was a coward for sure, I kinda don't understand how the mightiest being in the universe, only second to the literal creator, could possibly be afraid of something but ok, we know damn well he was terrified of Tulkas and Varda because...because yes ig, that's the only part of the Silmarillion that never made much sense to me.
Thank you for crediting each artist individually. Great video.
Sauron was the far more clever and patient of the two.
I think that he followed Morgoth to gain power to reshape existence after Morgoth had succeeded in his own initial goals.
My thoughts exactly. It is also implied that Melkor relied on Sauron's intellect quite a bit whenever he wanted to "create" (actually corrupt) more evil servants.
@@jakobrenner2230 implied where exactly ?
The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, and The Fall of Gondolin ?
I don't recall Melkor relying on Sauron in terms on intellect. Which book was this implied ??
Melkor was just as if wiser but he had the strength to bend things to his will. Sauron HAD to resort to more devious and craftier tactics because he didn't possess the strength to have the world bend to it's knees as Melkor did. As he did against Numenor and creating the rings to corrupt.
Perfect example would be Superman. Has the intelligence to go against anyone intellectually but why do that if you can just brute force your way instead of that makes sense.
@@JrClips27 good point. And if one where to compare superman with Batman, most people would say Batman is smarter, but that’s because he HAS to be. Very similar situation imo
@@mattiasandersson8693 exactly. Supes is from a family of brilliant scientist and has the mind of a super computer, but why do all that if he can punch his way out of any situation. Batman doesn't have that luxury.
That said it's the same for Melkor and Sauron.
@@mattiasandersson8693 Batman IS smarter than Superman lol , Y'all say it like if let's say I have to be smarter than Einstein I can be lol , it doesn't work like that
To me, Sauron seems more human as a villain, in the sense that his motivations are somewhat understandable: it's the old dream of "if I were in charge, everything would be better!", and it's something everyone deals with to some extent. He's essentially a Saruman-like character, powerful enough to see the failings of rational creatures around him, but not wise enough to understand his own failings.
While Melkor strikes me as more of an "elemental" villain: as in, an incarnation of a certain element of the human psyche, . He's a personification of pride (which is the beginning of evil, in the Christian sense: wanting to be like God, etc.), in the same way that Shelob could be a personification of gluttony and greed. One wants to control all he can, and destroy the rest: the other wishes for nothing but to consume all around it, to satisfy its ever-growing appetite.
In a way, they complete each other very well. Although we all know none of these lords of evil can ever compare to the one true lord of evil: the One who is the Master, whose songs are greater songs and whose feet are faster...
This is an excellent comment.
Shelib is glutony only
Greed are the dragons
Wrath balrogs I think, pure flame of anger
Not sure if envy lust etc have incarnation as well in tolkien
With tolkien a devout catholic a creature per deadly sin would have fit
@@laresilience5829 I guess so... I don't think Tolkien really had that idea in mind. Though you could argue Morgoth had all these sins in one neat package: his original pride leads him to destructive anger, lying, and even to lust (over Lúthien)
I agree. Tom Bombadil is the true Lord of the Sith.
I think from this Analysis we can see why the books and movies were centered around Sauron and not Morgoth as, Sauron is more grounded and understandable, in a sense he can be defeated in a climax. Morgoth is cosmic and ambiguous, his desires inhuman and insane to us, his defeat is simultaneously possible but also desirable to himself. The scope of Morgoth is a psychadelic paradox requiring intense metaphysics to understand, while Sauron is a simple heroes journey type bad guy. I think the true horror of Morgoth is we are subject to his evil and once finding out about it we likely will not enjoy life or ourselves afterwards while say victory against Sauron comes with a restoration of mankind and the crowning of Aragorn as king of Gondor representing renewal. I feel like Morgoth is the type of shit Gandalf and the higher Elves keep to themselves because they know it would drive simpler minds insane. From my understanding of this work it is that Melkor seeded the world with evil and thus there can never be a lasting peace until there is some kind of final reckoning or end of the world. Sauron is merely a bump in the road or a divergent flight of fancy until the real battle.
No matter how goth Sauron tried to be, Melkor was Morgoth than him.
Well done
@@tylermiller6532 It is not my pun, I am mearly repeating it to bask in the lesser reflected glory. Now I shall deminish and go into the west.
😂really?? Oh my that was good! Second reply even better😅 truly well done
Ever interesting, always informative, touching on the finer nuances of the lore. Wonderful work.
I always thought of their difference more in this way, Melkor, as a Vala, sought utter conquest through the dissemination of his own inherent power, whereas Sauron, as a Maia, sought conquest by the collection of as much power as he could gain and control into one location, that being himself.
I would say your description of Sauron is spot on. As for Morgoth, I would replace utter conquest with destruction; the dissemination of his own power created Arda Marred, which damaged the world rather than aiding him in conquering it.
It's worth considering that this means that Sauron was drawing to himself much of the remaining power that Morgoth had left behind. It seems to me that in declaring himself to be "Morgoth returned", Sauron is expressedly trying to do this. In the elder scrolls there is a principle known as mantling, where an individual takes on the attributes of another (i.e., takes up their "mantle") to draw on their power, usually with the goal of attaining their own sort of ascension to heroism or godhood. In this way the original power is sort of eclipsed by the rising power, both sort of becoming infused with aspects of the other to become a greater single entity. I think that this is what Sauron was doing when he declared himself such, he really was trying to embody the original dark lord, while still bringing that power under his own sway. As one of Morgoth's chief agents, its possible that Morgoth himself even veiwed Sauron in this way- like a powerful weapon that he could continue to weild, even after he had been removed from Arda himself.
@@DarthGandalfYT "He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing" - Frank Herbert. This message is approved by Morgoth
Well done. Two characters that provide insight into how Tolkien saw the world. Morgoth is more like the classic Lucifer figure, a mythic representation of a fall from grace that he believed was an important part of any mythos. Sauron was tied more to his rejection of industrialization and national conflict in the real world. No other artist, at any other time, would likely have concocted such a combination of villains.
Madara and Obito
I kind of do think that people forget just how charismatic and cunning Morgoth could be. From the start of it with the music of the Ainur, really. He managed to corrupt numerous spirits throughout his entire run time. Balrogs, Sauron, some of the humans, etc. He wasn't just a brute when it came to his approach either and often relied on laying traps for his opponent, forcing them to give in to making mistakes with acts of pure, sheer malice so great that rage got the best of them and so on. The Battle of Sudden Flame is my favourite example. He manages so many underhanded moves on the enemies attacking him, which they never noticed until too late, that by the time he unleashes his final reserves, which were all cunningly also kept secret, along with Glaurung it's already a victory. He even gets disappointed with Glaurung when he breaks out in his infancy to wreak havoc on the elves because he revealed himself too early. If anything, he is *extremely* cunning and deceitful when he wants to be and not in any way a dumb brute. Saying that he is not a schemer, in my opinion, isn't correct at all. I don't really consider raw power something that plays too much of a role here either. Compared to the enemies he had and which he fought, I would say that Sauron was in a much better position on that front. Between fighting the Valar for untold ages while they were shaping the world, all on his own, to waging a war which took down the first lights and shattered Arda down the middle with Ungoliant an army of Maiar which he corrupted with, again, pure charisma or simply battling the far more powerful, in comparison to later ages, people of Middle Earth or the First Age for hundreds of years. He was very often the underdog and still came out on top, likely through strategy more than just simple, raw power.
Melkor had part of the power and understanding of the rest of the Valar and Maiar. He was skilled in subterfuge and persuasion and was skilled in the use of language (Quenya) that could scarce be equaled by any poet or loremaster. This is a being who could fool the other Valar (and it would be assumed that he did this when speaking with them mind to mind, as they had no need for language amongst themselves).
0-2 is a bit unfair since he did kill the 2 most powerful beings on the side of good during the War of the Last Alliance and Huan had the cheatcode of Prophesized Death that Sauron tried to be clever about.
So what you're saying is that Huan won, but was later found to be using performance enhancing drugs, and that Sauron vs Elendil/Gil-galad was a unanimous draw?
@@DarthGandalfYT I thought the 0-2 reference a bit off as well, for did not Sauron defeat Finrod in the duel at Tol-in-Gaurhoth?
@@seregrian5675 You know what? That's a good point. But I guess his duel with Finrod was with "magic" rather than physical weapons.
@@DarthGandalfYT Yeah since it was stated even pre Sauron vs Huan that only the Greatest werewolf ever could kill Huan so Sauron thought that him shapeshifting into one would fulfill the prophecy. But since Sauron was only in the form of one and was by his nature a Maiar he would have been destined to lose the fight. Morgoth ended up doing it right and made Carcharoth with the prophecy in mind and both he and Huan killed each other in battle. Also it could be considered a draw for Gil-Galad and Elendil since Sauron was mortally wounded after he killed them both.
@@salavantias1948 Still makes me mad that fucking Sauron who was the mightiest Maiar according to Tolkien wasn't a mightier wolf than Carcharoth , I get that Morgoth created him but he never created anything on a Maiar level since the dragons were simply created like the orcs , making Sauron bitch to Huan cause of that is kinda lame, Sauron definetly didn't lose the fight against Elendil and Gil-Galad since he was alive when both of them were already dead , It is very possible that if Isildur didn't cut off his finger he would have recovered fairly quickly so Sauron fair and square never lost a fight
From the grand scope of things, considering that all Ainur are children of Iluvatar, I often see Melkor's actions as one of those naughty kids in the house attempting get his parents' attention by being "playful", and in return all he get his rejection and scolding, which ultimately caused the kid to get angry, rebel, and leave the house.
It's even sadder when Melkor was trying to add his own theme to the music or mess around with the creation, Iluvatar simply told him and that his attempts to create further chaos will only end up serving his will as those things will ultimately bring out a more precious form a beauty (and those words were indeed fulfilled at the end of all things). Melkor was basically told by his parent that no matter what he does, following or rebeling, he is doing and will always be doing the exact thing his parent wanted him to do. Imagine how mad and powerless he felt when he heard that.
Imagine being the parent to a teenage know-it-all rebel kid sowing deliberately discordant music into the world because he wants to wield his parent's power and authority and dgaf who of his siblings or what of the created 'peasants' he has to chaotically or cruelly step on to make it happen.
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Imagine how disheartened Eru felt knowing in advance that his gifted and once promising rebel-without-a-cause would choose evil every time, every chance. That his music has to be worked and weaved *around* instead of it flowing with his siblings' and dad's. Bbecause the kid will only ever corrupt, harm and destroy anything he can't be master of -- even though he'd never been entitled to it anyway.
P. S. In other words, pity the villain if you want, but never forget this grown-too-proud, malicious self-centered being born with a silver-spoon metaphorically in his mouth would rather see you (and everyone) dead if he can't have you (and all) enslaved. Some things just aren't justifiable or acceptable even if they are intellectually comprehendible, eh?
It's pretty fucked up Iluvitar when you think about it, one could say God is the biggest manipulator and evil since they are the ones that started this game of suffering and hope.
@@baph0metSave the gnostic nonsense for the other heretics please.
@@theredsir869touched a nerve, huh?
There was a time after the LotR movies when I really, really wished to see the great wars and stories of the First Age to be on film.
Today I´m praying they don´t get their hands on the IP...
But man... if done right it would be such a blast!
I would love to see Children of Hurin adapted to film. I reckon there's easily enough there for two movies, possibly three if you some of Tuor's story was included.
@@DarthGandalfYT And what a great story it is! But they might need to hand out tissues...
Farewell, oh twice beloved! Túrin Turambar turun ambartanen - Master of Doom, by Doom mastered! Oh happy to be dead!
I love this story!
@@DarthGandalfYT we have hundreds of years of films to go.
Hope you last, too.
@@DarthGandalfYT That would be a hard pitch to make to a studio: a hero who is a dour jerk most of the time and all the main characters die tragically.
I SERIOUSLY DO NOT want to see the First Age, or the Second Age, or anything else from Tolkiens works be put on film. I don't want modern sjw politics inserted into Tolkiens work like I hear that AWFUL amazon LOTR knockoff garbage is doing, going "woke". They don't have nearly enough respect for either Tolkien or his material. They don't have the RESPECT to hold back on THEIR OWN politics but instead honor Tolkien and push HIS message. They also hate Christians so that's another reason they would never push Tolkiens message. I think highly of Peter Jackson for having the balls to actually respect Tolkiens works and do just that; convey TOLKIENS message not your own modern leftist beliefs(Tolkien was NOT a leftist in any stretch of the imagination and that Amazon show is freaking offensive to any Tolkien fan).
That's also prob why Peter Jackson was never brought on to help with Amazons LOTR knockoff garbage. Because he would insist on being true to the lore, and there would be no warrior full plate armor Galadrial(lol), or a black dwarf queen(also, lol), black elves, and gay couples, and other leftist abominations/wet dreams.
I seriously just wanna wait till modern Hollyweird freaking dies until I see any studio from there make ANY Tolkien related material. I like Tolkiens works more than any other fiction; even more than George Lucas Star Wars(which was also destroyed by these same "woke" sjw assholes); I DONT wanna see it ruined, tarnished, degraded, and destroyed, like I have heard Amazons garbage does to it - and like I could tell by its trailer alone.
Btw Galadrial is NOT a warrior in the sense that she wears full plate armor from the 15th or 16th century and uses a longsword(thats ABSURD for Galadrial). And Elven women were NOT warriors same as women of the race of Man, despite hollyweird's modern SJW politics. Nevertheless Galadrial, when she is forced to fight, is extremely powerful; but shes powerful because of her great MAGIC, because she is one of the bearer's of the Elven rings of power, which greatly amplifies the magical abilities she already had and gives her new ones too, particularly better control over nature itself. And if Galadrial was gonna have a weapon AT ALL(she wouldnt but lets pretend here) it would be a Bow and knife for close combat like the rest of the Galadhrim.
But aside form Eowyn "female warriors" aren't a thing in Tolkiens works, any more than they were in real life(or STILL ARE in real life to this very day; women in the military arent sent to the frontlines and the answer to that is too obvious to even say). Women have other roles and other power's in Tolkiens works even the powerful ones; just like the real world. They aren't Men with breasts like the feminist leftist nutcases want people to think, like that RIDICULOUSLY OFFENSIVE Amazon Lord of the Rings knockoff and its writers want to pretend. And frankly, expecting women to have the same qualities as Men(and calling them useless or "sexist" if they don't have those qualities in a movie) is DEGRADING to women and their own specific role and abilities, it denies femininity itself. That's what feminism has always been about, trying to make people believe that Women are the exact same as Men and have the exact same natural abilities and inclinations and skills and abilities and so on. People are NOT equal. People have, and SHOULD HAVE, equal rights UNDER THE LAW but people are inherently NOT EQUAL, not between the sexes, not between races, and most of all not between individuals. And the Dwarves hid their women; Dwarven women not only had beards but they didn't like leaving their homes. That black dwarven queen(why is she black? No clan of dwarves is black AT ALL. Why would people who live underneath MOUNTAINS for THOUSANDS OF YEARS be BLACK? wtf?) is just as offensive as Galadrial in that amazon show.
Damn. Don't trust hollyweird EVER. Pray that the woke agenda DIES a painful death in hollyweird before any more LOTR stuff gets made, or better yet that Amazon sells off the IP. They got rid of Tom Shippey you know; the only guy capable of forcing them to respect Tolkiens lore, highly respected in the Tolkien community. That's an indication of what they think of all of us who like Tolkiens works like LOTR and Silmarillion and all the others.
Gothmog gets no love he held the same rank as Sauron in Morgoths army. It was also him and his other Balrogs that saved Morgoths butt when he was about to get owned by Ungoliant. He may not have been as strategic as Sauron but in a straight up fight in the first age I would put my money on Gothmog over Sauron.
Gothmog was the brawns and Sauron was the brains of Morgoth's organization imho. They both had an abundance of what the other lacked. I guess that's why Morgoth held them both equally as his top commanders.
Considered how Sauron got owned by a dog, I bet
@@nicbahtin4774 “I-it was a big dog!” - Sauron probably
@@anthonymcrooster3703 I'm sensing a Darth Maul and Count Dooku situation. Two halves of the same coin (aggression & collectedness.)
@@nicbahtin4774 To be fair, that dog literally had a death prophecy, so I don't think Gothmog would have beaten him either
Morgoth was greedy and stupid despite being incredibly strong and powerful whereas Sauron was crafty and smart despite being far weaker. That was the difference between the two of them.
The power of deceit
actually Morgoth would've won had it not been for the interference of the Valar. It's a bit like Ramsey's arc in GoT. He played everything to perfection but hadn't counted on 10K knights of the vale suddenly arriving at the scene.
sauron was also ridiculously arrogant. he only lost, because of arrogance and the wrong assumptions he made, because of his arrogance.
While it’s true Morgoth has greater might in a physical fight, Sauron’s might is a bit downplayed and he was a strong fighter (if anything it was ultimately his generalship that failed). Morgoth (the most powerful of the Valar) took 7 wounds that would not heal from a mere elf who was technically inferior in every way and 2 tiers lower from him in class from a power perspective (not to mention he had every advantage in that fight it being on his own turf). Meanwhile Sauron took on and killed 2 of the most powerful people of their day in a 2 versus one fight. One was Elendil a giant 8 ft numenoran man and king of the Dunedain. He was considered one of the greatest warriors to ever live. The other was Gil-Galad a great king of the elves and again one of the most powerful of his age. He fought both of them at the same time and gave them mortal wounds. Unfortunately for Sauron his body was so damaged from the fight it allowed Isildur to cut the ring from his finger in the encounter. However his fighting power should not be understated or underestimated. He simply utilized it in a much different way than Morgoth who was all about destruction.
@@susanrodriquez3757 Sauron was defeated by Lúthien & Huan, he was defeated so many times... but yeah, Morgoth is nothing special either. That's because Tolkien's power-scale makes no sense.
Both could definitely be good Dark Souls bosses.
Lol
they are not hard enough for dark souls
Let's be honest, Sauron would be an easy Dark Souls boss for the simple fact that instead of using that giant ass Mace he has, he'd just try to grab you instead and get his only strength cut from his hand 😆😆
Why?
Yeah, well, if they ever did a LOTR style Souls game, you can bet your ass that I am going to play that.
While Morgoth is the OG big baddy, I always favoured Sauron more as a villain. Sauron was conniving, manipulative, cruel and hella patient which overall makes him appear more evil in overall grand intention/motivation. Good video mate!
Your channel is a gift to the world..LOTR stories needs to be preserved for further generations to come . 🙋♂️❤️
I think short videos are great, but I'd personally enjoy listening to longer, detailed videos. Great work dude!!
I should make a minor correction to your final point that "Morgoth and Sauron ended up in the same place". They absolutely did not; Morgoth was cast through the Door of Night into the Void, a place entirely outside the material Universe of space and linear time (which in Tolkien's legendarium consists only of the world of Arda and its atmosphere, with the sun, moon and stars existing on a plane in the very uppermost layers of said atmosphere). Sauron was never cast from the World, so even to this day his disembodied spirit still roams Earth as a shapeless, impotent malice. It's just that he suffered such a catastrophic loss of his native power when the One Ring was destroyed, that he will never again be able to amass enough strength to threaten the world, either as a bodiless spirit or as a fully-physical being. According to a passage in the Silmarillion which, for some reason, Christopher Tolkien decided to leave out of the published version, Morgoth will eventually find his way back into the world, at the Dagor Dagorath ("Battle of All Battles", basically analogous to the End of Days in most mythologies).
You are correct. I thought I was being clever with that finisher, but nothing gets by Tolkien fans.
Won't Sauron be reincarnated along with all other evil beings at the Dagor Dagorath?
@@AeneasGemini yeah Morgoth mere pressence is enough to return Sauron to his full powered physical form
I know this is epic high fantasy, but I can't help but laugh when I think about how the characters would react after Morgoth's escape, like they put him in this place that's out of space and time, and yet he gets out. Also Eärendil, we know he would keep an eye of him with his disco-floating ship every now and then, I kinda headcanon that moment as everyone running around panicking, with the Valar raging at Eärendil:
"Ehem, guys, we have a problem"
"What problem?Everything's good, that evil Maia in Middle Earth has been gone for so long now, so what could possibly have happened now"
"First off I wanted to tell you that you're the best and I admire you so much and-"
"Bro, get to the point"
"Weeeelll, Morgoth's kinda not..kinda not where you left him"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S NOT WHERE WE LEFT HIM?!"
"HE'S JUST NOT MAN IDK HE'S GONE"
"YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO MAKE SURE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN"
"BRO I WAS AWAY FOR 2 SECONDS, BLAME YOUR STUPID GUARDS"
"HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN?!"
"IDK BRO ASK ERU OR SOMETHING"
It says here in this verse from The Silmarillion Sauron did go to the Void.
"In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and in the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.”
--Silmarillion, Valaquenta, Of The Enemies, Page 20.
The writings pre-date D&D so I thought it funny that Morgoth sounds like he has a chaotic evil alignment and Sauron sounds like he has a lawful evil alignment. It made me wonder if Tolkien had continued with the sequel would the villain in the 4th Age end up with something like a neutral evil alignment. Probably not. But if I'm ever DM-ing in the 4th Age setting, that's what I would do to make things different than before.
Based on some of his statements, it's likely the big bad would have been one or both of the Blue Wizards, since Tolkien wrote in a letter that they were most likely the main leaders of the cults of Morgoth after Sauron's defeat
@@BroadwayRonMexico tolkien wrote a lot of conflicting stuff about the blue wizards. everything is just speculation and nothing is for sure about them. I think ungoliant can be described very well as neutral evil, a pure force of nature
Fun fact:
People think Sauron was huge for a humanoid, towering over most at ~ 3 meters tall ( ~9'5) , could easily throw dozens of humans around with his mace.
Morgoth was ~ 12 meters tall ( ~40 foot).
We have no numbers for how tall either of them were. Sauron and Morgoth were tall, but not gigantic.
Correct, technically these are just estimates fans have made based on some descriptions in the books, which are not consistent at all. Morgoth is described being as tall as a tower and as big as a hill in his tyrant form, yet in the battle vs Fingolfin (who is about 7-8ft) he's able to step on his neck, so he couldn't be more than 15-20ft tall and there are more such instances. Sauron was as tall as an elf in his original form, however he could shapeshift and change his size, so we could only speculate, but in the third age when he revealed his dark lord form he was much taller than any humanoid. Still, considering how big the Balrogs and the Dragons were, especially Ancalagon, it doesn't seem unlikely that Sauron and Morgoth could be quite gigantic themselves, compared to a hobbit per say.
@@pubx1312 Morgoth got smaller over time as his power in his personal form waned. In the beginning, the Valar were truly gigantic (but they were also not truly physically incarnate, only Morgoth ever became fully incarnate among the Valar):
"a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold."
It seems likely that Morgoth (and the Maia who served him, including Sauron and the Barlogs) were in the range of 12 to 20 feet tall in the time of the First Age.... when Ecthelion fought Gothmog in Gondolin, Ecthelion was about half (or a bit more) of Gothmog's height--putting the Balrog around 12-15 feet. Morgoth would have been larger but probably not by much.
nah morgoth would take the forms tall as mountains as he wished. later stuck to a smaller body due to losing power
Not true… and it never says anywhere in the text that Sauron used a mace. That’s a Peter Jackson thing. Books say he used his hands.
Nothing, in my view, illustrates the discrepancy in methods, personality and power between these two than the image of Burad-dur set before towering Orodruin. The dark tower with it's ordered symmetry, artifice and function dwarfed by the asymmetrical, primal fury of the mountain of fire.
I didn't ponder these questions before, taking Sauron for Morgoth 2.0, where I obviously was mistaken, as you convincingly explain. Very interesting!👍
This was an excellent piece of work. I wish you’d do longer more detailed things like this. Thanks for all your efforts.
Sauron used some spells/powers like:
a) Volcano Control - Orodruin;
b) Shapeshift;
c) Earthquake;
d) Weather Control;
e) Dominate Monster;
f) Mass suggestion;
g) antimagic field;
h) Sympathy;
i) Create undead;
J) Dispel Magic;
Etc
These powers were used by Melkor/Morgoth. I don't emember another servant who could do the same.
And who could forget Burning Fists of Fury which he used to great effect on Gil-galad.
Sympathy?
@@dreliq981 "Yes, to Mordor,’ said Gandalf. ‘Alas! Mordor draws all wicked things, and the Dark Power was bending all its will to gather them there. The Ring of the Enemy would leave its mark, too, leave him open to the summons. And all folk were whispering then of the new Shadow in the South, and its hatred of the West. There were his fine new friends, who
would help him in his revenge"
@@DarthGandalfYT margoth would probably win in a fight I assume ?
@@jummyran Most of the time, yes. But Morgoth had weakened a great deal by the end of the First Age to the point of where Sauron was actually stronger for a short time.
Melkor had substantial innate power, which allowed him to lash out against the creation he hated, without needing to scheme or rely so much on collaborations. Sauron lacked that power and desire to destroy, which forced him to scheme and be structured to get what he wanted and to preserve what he wanted to control/rule. If Sauron had Melkor's power and wanted to destroy everything, then he probably would have acted Silmaril-larly (similarly). JMO.
The idea that it was difficult to keep this video as brief as you did shows that these two have much more depth than they're given credit for.
This was frocking awesome, loved the lore, telling style and ofc the fully encompassing depth of analysis you dish out, man you dish that out with style.
Take care brother
Imo I say that Sauron more realistic in his goals.
And the experiences he had taught him to be patient.
With the exception of moving fast after aragorn revealed himself to Sauron, Sauron largely seemed to have learned from his mistakes...
But not enough to repent
Incredible video. I liked your take and explanation of their character and differences. You got Sauron's character dead on. Sauron makes me thing of Jacen, from Star Wars lore. He was one of the most talented jedi in existence, with a knack for discipline, economy, organization, and was utterly selfless. He saw no other being capable nor with the strength of character to do what was right even if it cost everything.
The problem with Sauron's end-game was that he would create his own nightmare. With the destruction of nature and animals all under his dominion would eventually starve to death or die of some other indirect consequences of his unrestrained destruction. In a small way he would give his master Morgoth the victory indirectly.
Think it was more destroying unbound nature. Not leaving a forest so massive you can't control what happens in it, not letting colossal herds of animals have free reign etc. Weirdly makes me think of Sauron opening dark national parks, hard set in their areas, but controllable.
@@DracoSafarius That.....actually sounds like something he would do.
sauron does not want to destroy nature, he just wants to control all of nature. I think this assumption, that he would destroy it comes from the movies where mordor is depicted as a volcanic wasteland, but the region around the sea of nurn was very fertile and used for industrial farming to properly supply his massive armies. It was basically nature, but he controlled it.
I think the appearance of those two perfectly match their difference. Morgoth is in black armor with an iron crown and a huge hammer showing how he is a force of destruction, Sauron is often depicted as a mage showing is intelect and duplicity. (then the movie made Sauron look like Melkor so...)
Morgoth was like a double barrel shot gun sawed off of evil Sauron is like the Winchester Super X1 of evil
I love this analogy 😂
An interesting example of Sauron's less extreme nature that wasn't mentioned was the terms he offered the Western leaders at the Black Gate when they confronted his forces - he would spare all of them and let them return to their own lands, provided they recognised Sauron's dominion and became his vassals. He wouldn't even rule them directly, but would still let them run their own affairs so long as they didn't conflict with Sauron's plans. Considering how much trouble they'd caused Sauron, this seems very generous and reasonable, and certainly not something Melkor would have done.
I think, that Sauron was lying to them....
@@luiswohlrab4847at least Sauron actually bothers with lying
The greatest crimes of Morgoth are quite vague since we are given no details by Tolkien - destroying the works of the other Valar prior to the awakening of the Children of Ilúvatar, teaching men to fear the Gift of Death, and corrupting Arda so everything diminishes with time.
Is that way magic is fading in Lotr? Because Melkor/Morgoth poured his power into Arda? I thought that was by design, then again i did read somewhere that Eru kinda wanted Morgoth to be the way he was, so i suppose that events itself out.
@@Zero60133 Ultimately, I don't think Eru is as concerned about Morgoth as the Valar. Magic started fading from the time Aman got separated from the rest of Middle-Earth. The exodus of the elves just accelerates it.
those seem to be pretty specific crimes.
@@stephenandersen4625 The details are vague compared to say hanging Maedhros off the side of Thangorodrim by one of his wrists.
There really isn't any "magic" in Arda in the common sense of fantasy magic.
What "magic" you see is the natural abilities of the people involved. The Ainur have a deep understanding of the nature of the world (after all they helped design it) and their nature is such that they can manipulate the very fabric of the world as a natural ability.
The elves have a similar, if lesser, power and a similar, if lesser knowledge--and they had long exposure to the Ainur and their knowledge.
The Dwarves have a preternatural skill (from a human perspective) in the making of things and the understanding of this--as would seem only logical in the children of Aule. They are, from the evidence, actually equal or better craftsmen than the Eldar, saving the rare instance of Feanor and perhaps Eol.
The humans don't have any magic that is discernable--in the rare causes we see this it is largely "borrowed" magic through items or association with actual powers (like Morgoth or Sauron).
Remember that the royal lineage of Numenor is part Eldar, part Ainur, and human--which accounts for their abilities.
The way I see it. Morgoth and Sauron’s relationship is like Sith master and Sith apprentice. One that is all powerful and one that hungers for power.
Nicely put together, clear and interesting, and you’ve got a good voice for it. Many thanks.
In D&D rules, Morgoth is more similar to Demons of the Abyss while Sauron is more similar to the Devils of the Nine Hells.
So morgoth is chaotic evil while sauron is lawful evil.
morgoth would depose demogorgon, where sauron might be able to take over one layer of hell
@@kingmasterlord Sauron would be pretty successful in my opinion. He would likely end up as one of the top devils in the Nine Hells. As, similarly to the real great devils of the setting, he has great power, but his real potency is his brain, his cunning, and his knack for manipulation. He'd scheme the absolute shit out of the realms of Hell and play the powers against one another, only to come out on top in the end. Then possibly lose later, because DND Hell is a perpetual cycle of betrayal caused by unchecked ambition.
Excellent explication of the differing natures of these two characters. You just earned yourself a subscriber.
I remember when I was a kid, watching the movies and seeing the One Ring destroyed, I cried. 🤣 I feel like I was already overly biased towards Sauron before learning about him. Great video, thank you. 🖤
Great video, thats one of the best and most concise explanations about the relation between the two dark lords, amazing job!
Morgoth, for all his strength, isn't what I think of when I think of 'The Dark Lord'. I only think of Sauron. He's cunning, corrupting, deceptive, and one of the most successful trilogies in fantasy literature isn't about fighting him directly- by ROTK, there would be nobody on the field that could take on a fully-reincarnated Sauron. No, it's merely about ensuring that he can NEVER return- because he possesses a kind of evil so well-calculated and determined that nobody would have been able to defeat him again.
Morgoth is the rough first-draft; all strength, no substance. Sauron is the refined final product.
That speaks to something people often misunderstand about Tokien's mythology: The Valar are simple and natural beings. Enormously powerful and deep, but not at all clever or complicated. That's why they're able to be surprised by decisions of Elves and Men. Morgoth is likewise a simple beast despite his huge power, and his fortresses are like animal lairs rather than buildings. But Sauron is a maker, although increasingly irresponsible until near-pure evil.
I think even being plain simple theres beauty in the evil of Morgoth, he represents the most pure sin of all: arrogance
Through arrogance he believes he deserves to be better than Eru and demands to remake creation as its own, in a way Morgoth despises the universe as a whole and wants a new universe of his own, through the destruction of the present one
@@guifdcanalli It's honestly rare to see a villain like him actually work and not be hated by everyone in the fanbase. Usually villains that go "yeah i'm completely evil and i want to destroy the world and basically i exist because the cool main hero characters need a nemesis" are mostly ok in cartoons and when they're in actual content for non-kids they might get annoying, but this time it works. It works because we're in a setting that completely justifies it: we're at the creation of the universe, and the only characters we've been introduced to so far are gods and demi-gods, so it makes perfect sense for them to be "plain" they literally are the rough first draft, they are the only thinking thing that existed with Iluvatar so far, so them being plain makes perfecf sense. Plus, usually cartoon-esc villains like these don't get much of a backstory or a "how did we get here" at all. Instead we know exactly why and how every Tolkien character is the way they are and how they became the way they are. Morgoth started out good just like all the other Valar, he just had a biiit too much ambition which turned into arrogance, which lead to him becoming the personification of evil. Sauron started out good too just like all the other Maiar, I think he was just hyperlogical from the start, and his idea of "order" was messed up even before Morgoth came in and multiplied the messed up-ness by 1000, either way he was not set to evil by default, no Tolkien chatacter is (ig Orcs and dragons don't count, since they quite like were created flr the sole purpose to serve evil, those are the only ones set on evil by default). We know Fëanor acts the way he acts because since childhood he's been praised for being such a perfect dude (which also happened for Morgoth and Sauron, everyone around them liked them because they were, indeed, the greatest of their kind respectively, until they weren't) so now he actually goes around bragging about how cool he and his new shiny rocks are. We know Fingolfin and Finarfin aren't assholes like Fëanor (I love him too, i'm not hating on him lol)because their mother raised them right,we know Fingolfin is the way he is because he's a mix of his father and his mother's personality traits, we know Finarfin is the way he is because he moslty resembles his mother. I could go on forever with tons of other characters but I think this is enough to get the point across.
@@guifdcanalli "in a way Morgoth despises the universe as a whole and wants a new universe of his own, through the destruction of the present one"
So that's where Darkseid got the specific idea of creating a new universe in his image rather than stopping at destroying it or being content to rule over the current one.
Thanks for comparing these two villains. One desired chaos while the other desired power and domination.
I got to say Morgoth and Sauron are both almost like partcial representations of the mental aspects of the Biblical fallen angel Satan (Who might be named Gadriel in First Enoch and his other name in Jubilee is Mastema) of the Garden of Eden in behaviors, thought process, fruits, and ideology.
Like Morgoth, Satan (or Mastema) is called Chaos in First Enoch and though he is limited in power and retrained by the Archangel Michael however like Morgoth, Mastema is spiteful and hold grudes against men, the seven Archangels, and Yahuah. It is likely he treats allies who could rival his power like the 200 Watcher Fallen Angels in First Enoch who were also called Satans before they were locked up as threats. And those who unknowningly serve him are treated like expendable garbage like in Jubilee when he is allowed to for a short time to be partcially set loose he kills the first born of the Egyptians who don't have blood painted on their door post without a second thought including Pharoah's son for his own craving for death to men to appease his hatred of us. (Jubilee says this).
Sauron is pretty good at deceiving but not as subtle and indirect as Mastema is as the latter is restrained most of the time by Michael and being a bounded spiritual being it is his only option. However both are capable of warping and twisting entire belief systems into decending into evil wicked doctrines and theologies. Sauron doing this in Numenor, and Mastema pretty much throughout the world though he is not alone in doing this and has aid from the disembodied nephilim spirits (demons) he commands.
Though they do not often accuse as much both Morgoth and Sauron do accuse Eru Iluvatar and the Valar with their delusional lies and perceptions just as Satan does with pretty much almost everyone and everything that he doesn't like. And like him they both become more delusional and wickedly insane as they become more evil over time and think themselves as rulers and gods of the world. And they all share the same fate where they fall in the end and get what is the righteous punishment they deserve for all their evils and disappear into ashes for all eternity.
I really need to go look at the Book of Enoch again, since I don't remember any of that. My only recollection of Satan in the OT was in Job where he's just a guy asking questions, and it's YHWH who is causing all the suffering (which fits with the OT narrative that all things come from God, both good and bad). I however don't buy into the notion that Satan was the serpent in Genesis.
@@atraxisdarkstar
It is actaully heavily said he was there in the Garden of Eden multiple times and his sin was deceiving Adam and Havilah (Eve). However one big misconception we keep implementing is that he's an archangel when it was never said that he was and the name Lucifer doesn't fit how angelic names usually go which normally end with "el" standing for a elohim. which in Ancient Hebrew means "Heavenly being". So it could be that name was added into Bible canon sometime later by institutions who translates them pretty fraudly often. It's clear he once was a special unique kind of angel with a special duty such as taking care of the Garden of Eden but not the same in raw power like Micheal who is the leader of the seven Archangels is. Another thing. The War in Heaven event is only mentioned in Revelations during the Tribulation not Genesis, First Enoch, or Jubliee. So when churches keep advocating for that doctrine that it took place in the beginning of creation don't know what they are talking about. So it hasn't happened yet.
I suggest you check out a Bible research youtube channel called "The God Culture" to get a better understanding of this. They been around for over 5 years and have done hundreds videos covering real scripture and sometimes contrasting occult based frauds which they test. They have entirely covered the books of Jubilees and 2nd Esdras with series of videos called "Answers In Jubilees", "Answers in 2nd Esdras", and are currently covering First Enoch as we speak with "Answers in First Enoch" Series.
I often like them more then other ones because they go in depth and test it while other researchers do not and simply make their own paradigms that fits their interpretations without testing it in depth. Up to you I am simply handling out a source I prefer from most.
Yahuah and Yahusha Elohim bless.
@@thorshammer7883 Lucifer's true name is Gadreel, mentioned in Enoch.
@@magatetus
Or Gadriel. I will be quite interested in learning the meaning of that name more often.
Tolkien already said that lotr is influenced by the bible
Morgoth destroyed the Pillars of light, the two trees of light and sank a whole continent. The sun and moon were made because of him.
And he tried to attack the moon dude once too lol
@@grassblock7668 Talk about anger management issues!😅
@@Facade953 Fr!
@@grassblock7668 who is the moon dude again, I can't remember
@@Test-mq8ih The moon dude is a Maiar named Tillion
This video was unbelievably awesome!! Well done sir. There is one thing in the beginning I wish you would have put in.
You mentioned Melkor being the strongest of his tier, the Valar. If I'm not mistaken, Sauron was also the strongest of the second tier, the Miar. And, others in the second tier included the wizards. Obviously such as Gandalf and Sauruman who were no where near as powerful as Sauron.
not quite, if sauron was that powerful he probably wouldve commanded dragons and balrogs to join him.
Easy: one is a genius god-like sorcerer that infused his malevolent spirit within a ring and the other is the sentient cosmic force of pure evil that infused his very essence within the entirety of Arda.
Morgoth literally corrupted the entirety of the world, he was only second in power to Eru. Sauron was an ant to Morgoth. It's too bad so many people don't go beyond the Hobbit and LoTR
Morgoth is inherently more powerful than Sauron by default because he was a Valar and Sauron was a Maiar. There’s no denying Morgoth is beyond Sauron in terms of power, but in my opinion, Sauron is a far more interesting character and villain. Not to mention, for all the power Morgoth had, he was a bit of a coward and was humiliated by Tulkas.
@@MeanChompers You only think that because Sauron is more developed than Morgoth. More was written about him.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 I think there's a different reason for him to think so. Morgoth was far more evil than Sauron, the more evil someone becomes the more one dimensional their character development is.
Melkor is way better
dude was fighting 1v14 and manage to win 2 times
@@ankityadav6447 too bad he was kind of a dumbass and coward compared to much more intelligent Sauron
The fact that you selected an illustration including a bearded elf is.... *chef's kiss*.
I think it was about the attire. Margoth came dressed in the "gimmie
your lunch money" style of swag, whereas Sauron's dress code was
a little more subdued but terrible. He gave the impression that, he
could have stood on that bridge, like Gandolf, facing down a balrog,
slamming down his mace and screaming, "Who's your daddy?"
Sauron looks like a femboy
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Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
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Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
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Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
@@TheDarkblue57 When in elf form, yes. Elves are femboys
I think a more interesting and fair comparison would be between Sauromann and Sauron. Would honestly like a video on that now that I think off it.
Sauron initially had some genuine claim to at some positive intent. His desire for order came from the right place, a desire for things to work properly.
Granted it devolved into a desire to control everything but compared to Morgoth "destroy everything and recreate it in my image" when he doesn't have the power to create is still a better goal
So basically Sauron = lawful evil and morgoth = chaotic evil
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Mairon was Goth, but Melkor was Morgoth
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This pun is legendary!
I never knew Tolkien delved this deep into his characters, this was quite interesting to listen to!
If you read his note, you will know that he delved deeply into practically every detail. But ok, there are things that he provide absolutely minimal info like Tom Bombadil, that just mindfck readers to no end.
His inspiration was from the bible
@@tinynapa5155 That’s an extreme simplification.
Tolkiens complete works will always be on paper When they were making the fellowship of the ring people thought it would be a complete embarrassment Sean Connery was supposed to play Gandalf
read the silmarillion
The right hand of Melkor/Morgoth was not Sauron, but instead was Gothmog the Lord Of the Balrog. But you were right in some detail such as Sauron is "The Brain" of Angband while Gothmog is "The Muscle".
Exactly
Sauron is right hand of Aule
Sauron was his Chief Lieutenant. Thus, he is Morgoth's right hand.
@@SithFTW4072 and what's your prove of this?
@@billytobing5774 The Silmarillion
@@SithFTW4072 in what chapter of silmarillion which stated clearly that sauron is the chief liutenant?
It required all of my willpower to avoid slipping some #Angbang into the video.
it is the small things that keep the darkness at bay
One of the best videos of Morgoth and Sauron out there.
Sauron became to Morgoth what Saruman became to Sauron. Possibly with the same reasons. If you look at the Valar who are espoused they appear to be opposite heads of the same coin. Classic summary of this is Aule and Yavanna. Especially in the chapter of Silmarrilion where Yavanna upbraids Aule for keeping the creation of the Khazad secret from her. Or Tulkas the warrior espousing Nessa the dancer. A balance of innate but slightly differing abilities!
Makes me wonder what kind of dark lord Saruman would have been considering his obsession wasn’t wrath, or order, but for of a Faustian need for ultimate knowledge and a desire to peel back all the secrets of the universe.
Sauron: So, master, I believe that if we lure the main phalanx of the valar’s forces to attack us by venturing deep in the roots of the world, we can trap them into an unwinnable war of attrition that will…
Morgoth: Yeah, yeah, that’s fascinating… Hey, say, me and that bigass spider over there are off to steal the Silmarils, so don’t wait for us, we won’t be back before a while. Okay bye !
Exactly when Morgoth saw the Silmarils his ambitioned changed
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Your intro of the chaos of Morgoth and the desire for order by Sauron really reminds me of Emperor Palpatine and the downfall of Anakin Skywalker through the corruption of Anakin’s desire for order.
0-2 in physical combat for Sauron?
He killed Gil-Galad and Anarion.
That's pretty big.
And Elendil!
Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20
Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD
Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power.
Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD
Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes.
Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved.
Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed.
Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions.
Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope.
Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome.
Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948
@@benc589 don’t care
@@jkhristian9603 They are nothing compared to Elves of the First Age who saw Two Trees by themselves in Valinor lmao
@@Test-mq8ih Nobody said they were. I think Fingolfin had a tougher time, and did it alone.
I have no idea why this was suggested to me. The closest thing is watching video analysis of other works of literature but not in this genre Yet the thumbnail intrigued me. I read the haven’t read any of Tolkien works since I was child & by the looks of the comment section, I am clearly not in a target audience. But this was exemplary. This is one of the well thought out videos Ive seen in awhile. The work and effort was obvious. I am seriously considering putting the works I have chosen for the rest of the Summer on the back burner and pick up where I left off decades ago
Love it. Awesome artwork too. Just getting back into my Tolkein, since the god awful amazon series came out, though as Iluvatar said to Melkor in the beginning, everything you try to do will just turn back round to my greatness, so while Bezoz and amazon try to ignorantly and belligerently blast horns of deafening simplicity and brashness, attempting to steal the glory of Tolkein for themselves, they actually only lead people back to his writings with a deeper appreciation and love. That guy was a deep deep man, and I love him!
Sauron: "You need all the help you can get, I have some friends, Laurens, Mulligan, Marquis de Lafayette, okay, what else?
Morgoth: "Who?"
Morgoth - or Melkor, his real name - was much more powerful than Sauron could ever hope to become. He was an so called Ainur, one of the mighty entities which were creating the world under the old god Illuvatar. Melkor sabotaged his part of the creation. He made armies of Balrogs, Dragons and corrupted elves to become the first orcs. Sauron was only a much weaker successor compared to the might of Morgoths evil reign. He only used the leftovers of the evil powers.
Sauron is a better written character and smarter
@@polketex5043 I wouldn't say he was smarter, I'd hold them equally in terms of intellect, i'm not sure about who of them rules the longest, but I'm sure Sauron gets more "screentime" while doing so, that's why we get the idea he was smarter, he was shown doing more smart things than Melkor was, but that doesn't mean he didn't do them as well, some of the smart things he is shown doing are no joke: he tricks the Valar and manages to turn the Noldor against them in what?Weeks?Also, Sauron isn't a better written character, he has more depth as a character, but Melkor being as "plain" as he is wasn't bad writing, it was completely intentional as it works with the setting he was introduced in. I wouldn't say any Tolkien character is badly written, i'd put it as just that some of them are more complicated and grey than others who are either all good or all evil. In fact, I believe it is genuilly hard to dislike any Tolkien character because of how greatly-written all of them are, I can't hate any character unless they were written in a way that was supposed to get them hated (the only example I can think of is Eöl lol).
Actually they did not end up in the same place. Morgoth is bound but supposedly will some day break free somehow and start one last battle/war. Sauron however is permanently reduced to nothing more than a wind/bad dream in a person's head.
Strangely, I feel that Darth Vadar was very similar to Sauron in his mindset.
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I always knew that Sauron hated sand
Both 0-2 in meaningful hand to hand combat?
Yes, at least both in their beginnings. This is probably how Sauron was corrupted by Melkor ITFP--similarly as to how Anakin was seduced by Palpatine.
An important thing to note is that Morgoth and Sauron are operating on massively different power scales - Morgoth is quite literally a dark god, whereas Sauron is closer to a fallen angel in form (being on the same level as the wizards of middle earth, Gandalf, Saruman - who incidentally served the same deity as Sauron initially did). While each one was significantly more powerful than their peers - Morgoth was much more powerful than any of the valar individually and nearly too much for them even together, and Sauron was significantly more powerful than a standard Balrog (a fellow fallen maiar - spirits on the same level who had also fallen to darkness) or any of his former fellow maiar - the difference in power between a maiar like Sauron and one of the Valar like Morgoth is so significant that while all of the valar banded together and waged war against Melkor themselves, they did nothing while Sauron nearly conquered Arda twice - trusting in the mortal races and their servant(s) (cough, Gandalf, cough - since one of the other wizards turned, and other three were completely useless) to stop him.
Morgoth represents the unstoppable force of chaos as that discordant note in the song of creation (quite literally what he was); while Sauron is an inventor who saw an imperfect world and wanted to destroy it, so he could remake a perfect one (a philosophy that appeals to his former colleague Saruman, who was also originally a servant of the god of craft). In the end, the interesting thing is that neither is explicitly evil - rather they're simply following their inherent natures. Tolkien's biggest theme was that it's actions that are either evil or good, not necessarily the people who make them (Boromir fell to darkness, but redeemed himself; so did Frodo; Aragorn hid away for 50-60 years letting Gondor and the cities of men languish in the growing darkness; Saruman was initially a great force for good, but he fell to the same cynicism as Sauron - that idea that the world is broken and needs to be remade).
I think Sauron in the 3rd age had lost his mind due to his body being destroyed by Eru and then losing his ring. Kinda like how Voldemort became more and more insane as he made more Horcruxes. So to understand Sauron's true nature and motivation we have to examine the Sauron before the destruction of Numenor.
The most important factor for Sauron's motivation is Eru's plan for Middle Earth: All magics will fade away, and there will only be humans. Sauron does not like that, he wish the world could run in perfection forever without aging and deterioration. His rings of power were in fact the only thing keeping the elves stay powerful in Middle Earth. After destroying them, the elves had to leave or they will wither away. But only elves had a place to go, other magical species had no other option but to go extinct, and that's what happened in 4th age according to Eru's plan.
I believe Sauron originally really wanted to "save" Middle Earth from such fate, but complete order and harmony also means everything will be under his watch and control.
voldemort made corcruxes when he was tom,no ? .
If Sauron had won and ruled Middle-Earth, how would he react if Morgoth returned? Would he war against the other Dark Lord? An ultimate battle between Tyrannical Law and Infernal Chaos?
Now THAT would be Fucking COOL! Imagine that as the setting for a fantasy story...
@@RoScFan Indeed, The Valar, Sauron’s forces, and various Orcbands vs Gondor resistance groups, the Elves, and Morgoth. That would be a good fight to see.
AAAACTUALLY-There's a thing Tolkien wrote that sadly didn't make it's way trough the Legendarium, either way it says that, yup. Eventually Morgoth will come back to Arda and this event will trigger the Battle of the Battles which is essentially the apocalypse in Tolkien mithology. I don't know if it's canon but i think it should be, what do ya'll think?
@@grassblock7668 well in Tolkien Mythology, Apocalypse technically already happened for three times anyway (First & Second Valar War, Great War of Beleriand and the Fall of Numénor), tbh what OP said here will just become another Beleriand War, Im not really eager to see that tbh
@@Test-mq8ih also true
Sauron was not "0-2" in combat. He personally defeated Finrod, Huan (before Lúthien intervened that is), Celebrimbor, Elendil, and Gil-galad, but because he was weakened by the combined might of the latter two and possibly even by Elrond and Isildur who were also present, that came at the cost of his physical form for a time. He still took two of the mightiest fighters at the time with him, killing them both brutally before Isildur used his exhaustion to cut the Ring off him.
People constantly underestimate and inaccurately recount Tar-Mairon's fighting prowess. Technically you can also count Saruman and Denethor as defeats as these were contests of will he won, similar to his magical duel with Finrod. He could have won many more fights if he wanted to, he simply preferred not to.
He also put too much faith in his orcs, who were rather stupid and useless without him literally focusing all of his energy on mentally controlling them constantly. This was an army of thousands that would have easily crushed the Men of the West had the Ring not been compromised at that very moment. Constantly maintaining them all at the same time to fight more effectively and to the death is a huge testament to his power alone. Now just imagine if all of his servants were competent enough to not need his mental supervision and he could go about his day with all of his power in reserve and focused on other things.
There’s all that and the fact that he seemed to only lose the ring due to a bad judgment call. It looked like Sauron was trying to gloat and burn isildur when he could have just smashed his head in easy. Sauron got too cocky and suffered for it, but in power and prowess he was basically unbeatable in that battle with his ring. Sauron spelled out his own defeat in that final moment.
@@J99___ In the film that's accurate, in the book Isildur took advantage of him being weakened and disoriented after killing Gil-galad and Elendil to deal the final blow. But it is very much in line with his character to gloat. Had he left the Ring in the Tower, he never would have lost it. Had he not stayed on Númenor after conquering it to laugh at the invasion of Valinor, he never would have lost his ability to assume a fair form. Had he not underestimated Lúthien and deemed her a pretty trophy to give to his master, he would never have suffered his first defeat at her hands. His pride outweighed his cunning at the worst of times, but to be fair this was not without merit as he certainly would have won had God Himself not directly intervened to thwart him twice, sinking Númenor with him on it and pushing Gollum into Mount Doom with his Ring. Eru never did play fair.
2:20 i know this type of hating people.. Btw your way of describing story will go really great even for school story telling etc tq man
Absolutely love how you break it down. I'm a huge fan of the LotR and the hobbit but I never read the books maybe 1 day. But you fill in the voids of story perfectly.
Morgoth was one of the Valar. Sauron was one of the Maiar. Morgoth was a greater spirit. He was far more powerful than Sauron. Sauron is actually of the same order of spirits (Maiar) as Gandalf is. And Sauron was one of Morgoths lieutenants.
Morgoth poured so much of his power into the corruption of Arda it diminished him greatly so much that he need a bunch of Balrogs to save him when momma spider turned on him.
Morgoth was the creator of dragons and balrogs.
@@cb2000a Morgoth definitely didnt created Balrogs as they are Maiar that joined his side. He didnt create any Maiar. He really didnt even create anything Tolkien was very clear on that Evil does not create. Orcs and dragons were forms of life he just twisted into evil forms. For orcs he used elves what he used for dragons is never stated.
So does that mean that Gandalf's power should have rivaled Sauron's power?
@@bigguy130 not at all equal infact Gandalf was scared of going to middle earth in the first place because of Sauron. Now if Gandalf used the one ring that would be another story. Gandalf the Black would probably stomp Sauron
New subscriber here but you missed Morgoth's worst and most hateful crime towards Iluvatar, the creation of the orcs made from twisted and tortured elves.
Just came upon this as I delve back into Rings of Power. You have made something complex easy to understand 🎉
Morgoth was a Dark Souls boss.
Like...literally. His duel against an elf played out exactly like a generic Dark Souls boss fight. Huge telegraphed attacks countered by perfect i-frame dodges. Fingolfin only ended up dying in that fight because he missed a dodge, and even then, Morgoth ended up permanently injured (and probably humiliated) by the end of it.
Dude claimed to be the biggest and baddest bitch in the world, but couldn't even clutch a 1v1 against _an elf._
well, to be fair, it was the elf with the biggest amount of repressed anger in all of Arda
The high elves that lived in Valinor were empowered during their time there, by the light of the two trees and the tutelage of the Ainur. Simply living in Valinor made elves more powerful. They became in a sense like Maiar, they were not ordinary elves. This is also part of Feanor's sin, he was so arrogant in his skill and his Silmarils but never would have been that skilled or able to create the Silmarils without the Ainur's help.
Even so they were no match for Morgoth. Filgolfin only managed to stab him in the foot, because Morgoth was overconfident and underestimated him, and in the end even if Filgolfin had managed to strike a lethal blow he still wouldn't have been able to destroy Morgoth who can live without a physical form. Morgoth never needed to fight Filgolfin, he probably could have killed him without moving a muscle, he wanted to beat him one on one out of pride.
@@BigUriel yea, also have to remember that this was morgoth at his absolute weakest