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The Silmarillion

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The Silmarillion	comment	The Silmarillionfull titleQuenta Silmarillion (The History of the Silmarils), together with AinulindalÃ« (The Music of the Ainur) and Valaquenta (Account of the Valar), To which is appended AkallabÃªth (The Downfall of NÃºmenor) and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age is J. R. R. Tolkien's book of the history of Middle-earth, from the creation of the universe to the end of the Third Age. Tolkien had been working on it for most of his life until his death in 1973. His first book The Hobbit was not originally planned to share the same setting, but ended up that way, and its sequel The Lord of the Rings continued and concluded the narrative of the setting. It was posthumously edited by his son and literary executor Christopher (with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, later a fantasy author himself) and finally published in 1977.Originally, The Silmarillion was Tolkien's attempt to make a purely "English" mythology based on Welsh, Saxon, Finnish, and Norse sources. What it eventually became was a "Pan-European" constructed world, growing ever more intricate and detailed through the decades Tolkien worked on it.The book is subdivided into: AinulindalÃ« (the Music of the Ainur): Eru IlÃºvatar, the omnipotent and omniscient (i.e. biblical) Godnote his names in Quenya mean "the One, the All-father", inspires and directs the Ainur (angels) to sing a "Great Music", through which the universe is created, and history itself playing out as a manifestation of its meanings. Valaquenta (the Account of the Valar): a description of each of the Valar (Ainur who have chosen to enter the physical universe and serve as Eru's regents therein) and some of the Maiar, their servants. Quenta Silmarillion (the History of the Silmarilli): recounts the creation of Middle-earth by the Valar; the creation of the Elves, Dwarves, and Men; the first war between the Valar and Melkor; and the six-hundred-year-long war between the Elves and Melkor (with Men and Dwarves caught squarely in the middle) over the eponymous Silmarils. The chapter "Of TÃºrin Turambar" is further elaborated in the book The Children of HÃºrin (named Narn i-ChÃ®n HÃºrin in Sindarin, or Grey Elven). Beren and LÃºthien was also released in book form in 2017. The Fall of Gondolin was published in 2018. AkallabÃªth (The Downfall of NÃºmenor): The isle of NÃºmenor is given to Men who fought in the war against Melkor as a reward by the Valar. Over the centuries, the NÃºmenÃ³reans grow proud. All culminates in the reign of Ar-PharazÃ´n, who, driven by his fear of death and the lies of Sauron, dares to invade the land of the Valar. As a punishment, NÃºmenor is destroyed and sinks into the Sea, and Arda is made round, with Valinor removed from its surface, so Men may no longer assault the Undying Lands. A new book called The Fall of NÃºmenor was published in 2022, collecting almost all Tolkien's writings relating to the Second Age into a single narrative. Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age: Details the backstory to The Lord of the Rings; fleshes out the Gambit Pile Up of Sauron and Gandalf. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is named after this chapter, but adapts the events from The Return of The King's Appendices.Note: The terms "Quenta Silmarillion" or just "Silmarillion" are used (in-story and in the real world) for the whole body of stories from the First Age, regardless of their inclusion in the 1977 book The Silmarillion.Earlier and later forms of the stories used in The Silmarillion, insights into their evolution over a period of more than 50 years, and additional texts and material can be found in The History of Middle-earth and Unfinished Tales of NÃºmenor and Middle-earth.Has a Character Sheet split into several sections; since the narrative spans several thousand years, this book has a truly massive cast. You may wish to take notes.
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The Silmarillion / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Edain come off as this when compared to Elves and Dwarves. They have a less sophisticated society but an admirable one.
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The Silmarillion / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Silmarillion / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: And they do. Oh, do they ever die. Occasionally even twice.
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The Silmarillion / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
The Silmarillion / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: Ungoliant (literally, in an earlier version) appeared out of the Void and into the story to kill the Two Trees and attempt to eat Morgoth before disappearing into the South. Her origins are never clearly stated and only in later versions is she said to be a Maia.
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The Silmarillion / int_13da01c2	type	Spring Is Late
The Silmarillion / int_13da01c2	comment	Spring Is Late: Happens during the tale of TÃºrin Turambar in the form of the Fell Winter, helping make everyone in the story even more depressed.
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The Silmarillion / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Silmarillion / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: TÃºrin after he accidentally kills his mentor and best friend Beleg and again after learning that Finduilas has been killed. Fingolfin after hearing that all of the North is in ruin from the Battle of Sudden Flame, after which he rides alone to challenge Morgoth. HÃºrin is a ruined shell of his former self after decades of Cold-Blooded Torture and Mind Rape.
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The Silmarillion / int_144d31b1	comment	The Elves in their turn consider their immortality a Blessing With Suck, because they cannot leave the world even if they want to, but the audience is not likely to agree with them. The Elves' particular version of immortality consists of "fading," or in other words of their spirits gradually burning away their flesh: they become something resembling ghosts if they stay in Middle-earth. (This is why they're leaving for the West at the time of The Lord of the Rings.) Even staying in Valinor won't help in the long run as they will eventually grow weary of the same old world they can't leave, while Men get to experience the wondrous new things Eru has planned for them after their death.
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The Silmarillion / int_148efc99	type	Noble Tongue
The Silmarillion / int_148efc99	comment	Noble Tongue: Quenya (High Elven) sometimes functions this way for the elves of Middle-earth, who otherwise would speak in Sindarin. Similarly, Sindarin acts this way for the nobility of Gondor, who otherwise speak Westron.
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The Silmarillion / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
The Silmarillion / int_153299b4	comment	For all his strength, both times Morgoth fought with Tulkas resulted in Morgoth taking a dirt nap; the fact that Tulkas was tough enough to subdue Morgoth one-on-one was the reason he came to Arda.
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The Silmarillion / int_15fc9fb	type	Our Elves Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_15fc9fb	comment	Our Elves Are Different: The Silmarillion shows Elves at their worst - there are only three cases of Elves having battles against each other in their entire history, and all of them happen in this 600-year time span - but even at their worst, they are still fighting against the Big Bad, and spend 400 years keeping Beleriand (relatively) safe from the forces of evil. There is a grand total of one Elf, in their entire history, who willingly served an Evil power. The Edain (Men) in The Silmarillion are often more admirable than the Elves. However, the story of the Downfall of NÃºmenor illustrates just how much worse Men can be (basically: human sacrifices to the God of Evil in an attempt to invade and militarily conquer paradise). Elves are in many ways more powerful, "magical" and skilled than Men (they better be as they got long enough to practice), but they can screw up monumentally. Possibly more than Men in fact, as their greater power lets them screw up more dramatically and cause more damage. Elves have more control over their bodies than Men, and thus are less inclined toward mundane sins like Lust and Gluttony and Sloth, but can fall to Wrath or Pride just as Men can. In other words, when an elf becomes evil it is not because he lacks willpower; it is because he actually intends to do so. Elves are more "in-tune" with the physical world than Mortal Men, since they are a permanent part of it. As such, they seem to feel things more intensely than Mortals, and as a consequence their errors in judgment can be far more damaging. Their peaks and valleys are more like mountains and canyons. An angry Elf is a Person of Mass Destruction. A sad Elf can literally die of a broken heart.
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The Silmarillion / int_170cf4b6	type	Heroes Love Dogs
The Silmarillion / int_170cf4b6	comment	Heroes Love Dogs: And talking dogs love Beren and LÃºthien. Meanwhile, after Huan abandoned Celegorm for good, no dog of any kind would obey him ever again.
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The Silmarillion / int_17b5862b	type	Chariot Pulled by Cats
The Silmarillion / int_17b5862b	comment	Chariot Pulled by Cats: When the Teleri (Sea Elves) of the Lonely Isle Eressea wanted to emigrate to Valinor, they travelled in ships pulled by large swans.
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The Silmarillion / int_17b72e30	type	Continuity Porn
The Silmarillion / int_17b72e30	comment	Continuity Porn: The fact that one can read from before time to the end of the Third Age of the Sun is very impressive.
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The Silmarillion / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Silmarillion / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth. Karen Wynn Fonstad's Atlas of Middle-Earth can be helpful for names and places as well, with regard to the major battles, though it has several inaccuracies so watch out. This book itself is The Manual for The Lord of The Rings. Readers who finish this book and then re-read Rings will add tons of context for all those random name drops, songs and allusions to historical events found in the trilogy.
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The Silmarillion / int_187bddc1	type	Religion of Evil
The Silmarillion / int_187bddc1	comment	Religion of Evil: Sauron instituted the worship of Melkor-Morgoth (Satan!) in NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«, complete with Human Sacrifice.
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The Silmarillion / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
The Silmarillion / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy Beren, Finrod, and his soldiers as orcs. It doesn't turn out well. Later Beren dresses in the wolf-hame of Draugluin, a werewolf, and LÃºthien dresses in the form of Thuringwethil, a "vampire" — some female blood-dripping flying evil creature. This time it does work.
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The Silmarillion / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
The Silmarillion / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: We have Eru, The Valar with their Maiar, lots and lots of elves, men, and dwarves and even eagles are in it too! Fingolfin: Fought Morgoth — the story's version of Satan — in personal combat, and actually managed to hurt him. FÃ«anor: Slammed the door of his house in Morgoth's face. Killed fighting seven Balrogs at once while on fire. His body incinerated itself from the sheer passion of his spirit. Finrod Fegalund: Fought a werewolf with his bare hands and teeth to save his friend. Especially badass as elves aren't usually known for physical prowess. Ecthelion of the Fountain: Killed the Captain of the Balrogs with the crest on his helmet! Beren: Given an Impossible Task by his father-in-law and reacts with "You want me to go to Hell and steal a jewel from Morgoth's crown? Is that really all you want for your daughter's hand? Pfft." Proceeds to go do what is basically the Nintendo Hard version of Frodo's quest and succeeds. Luthien: Rebellious Princess who saunters into Morgoth's lair, dances for him and puts him and his entire army to sleep with magic, then walks out with a Silmaril. Hurin: Watched his people be massacred in a horrific battle, committed himself to a Last Stand where he killed hundreds of monsters with an axe and shouted "Day shall come again!" every time he killed. He only got captured because his axe melted. Earendil: Half-Elf astronaut mariner. Uses his magic flying ship to shoot down Ancalagon, a dragon so ridiculously massive that he makes Drogon look like a newt and crushes a mountain range under his body where he falls.
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The Silmarillion / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Silmarillion / int_1b4e322c	comment	Maedhros roughly translates to "sexy ginger." note This is derived from his Quenya mother-name Maitimo (meaning "well-shaped one") and a Quenya nickname, Russandol (meaning "copper-top")
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The Silmarillion / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
The Silmarillion / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Several. The ruin of Almaren, the destruction of the Two Trees, the sinking of NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«...
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The Silmarillion / int_1bf4581	type	Being Tortured Makes You Evil
The Silmarillion / int_1bf4581	comment	Maeglin is remembered as the only Elf who, (admittedly after torture), actually turned traitor and served Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Silmarillion / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: The Balrogs were primordial fire Maiar who allied themselves with Morgoth when he first rebelled. Arien, the Maia who pilots the Sun, is essentially a non-evil Balrog, and when she leaves Valinor to perform her new task she takes the form of a pure, naked flame, too bright for mortal eyes to look at directly. (And the Maia in the Moon follows her around because he's in love with her.)
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The Silmarillion / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
The Silmarillion / int_1dd14f5a	comment	First the I Surrender, Suckers: When the armies of Ar-PharazÃ´n lay siege to Mordor, Sauron surrenders and allows the NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«ans to take him home as a hostage. While in NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«, he slowly corrupts the minds of its people, persuading them to release him (although this takes a few years).
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The Silmarillion / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Silmarillion / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The Red Book of Westmarch, Ã†lfwine of England. They didn't make it into The Silmarillion as published, but were part of Tolkien's initial plan.
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The Silmarillion / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Silmarillion / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Morgoth and Sauron like causing these. Special mentions go to Gorlim the Unhappy and Gelmir son of Guilin.
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The Silmarillion / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
The Silmarillion / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Maeglin, son of EÃ¶l and Aredhel, sister of Turgon, the king of Gondolin. He is captured by orcs and dragged to Angband, and Morgoth tortures him to try and extract the location of Gondolin from him. Maeglin gives in when Morgoth offers or agrees to make him ruler of the city after its conquest, and also to deliver his cousin Idril (who's already married) into his hands. Maeglin agreed to kill her husband and seven-year-old son, and he couldn't have expected her to marry him willingly after that...
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The Silmarillion / int_1e6ca414	type	Burning the Ships
The Silmarillion / int_1e6ca414	comment	Burning the Ships: After FÃ«anor and his faction of the Noldor have crossed over from Aman to Middle-earth on the ships they stole from the Teleri, FÃ«anor orders to burn all the ships. His motive is two-fold: He wants to prevent any of his followers from returning to Aman, but also make sure they cannot ferry the rest of the Noldor under the leadership of FÃ«anor's brother Fingolfin over to Middle-earth.
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The Silmarillion / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Silmarillion / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Beren's journey through the Mountains of Terror, where no man had passed and lived to tell the tale. Out of all the awful things he endured in his life, that was the one he refused to talk about.
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The Silmarillion / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Silmarillion / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Practically every ruler of Elves and Men in Beleriand, and at least one Dwarf lord (AzaghÃ¢l), fought on the front lines against Morgoth at one point or another.
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The Silmarillion / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
The Silmarillion / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal Huan, the Hound of Valinor. He only actually speaks three times, and Tolkien never really states if he's a Maia in animal form, or just a really big dog that the Valar gifted with the ability of speech. The Eagles speak, and without them there would be no way for news to get around Beleriand at all. Then again, Thorondor at least seems to be more than an animal. It's implied Werewolves can talk, as Draugluin says to Sauron "Huan is there!", and Carcharoth has no trouble talking to Beren and LÃºthien (though, granted, they were shapeshifted at the time in wolf and vampire forms, respectively).
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The Silmarillion / int_1fb440a6	type	Voluntary Shapeshifting
The Silmarillion / int_1fb440a6	comment	Voluntary Shapeshifting: The Valar and Maiar are incorporeal spirits, but can create and "wear" any form they desire. Sauron in particular uses it as his trademark and a great tool for deception — or did, anyway, until he got caught in the Fall of NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«. That locked him into his "evil overlord" form, just like what happened to his boss Morgoth earlier. Even then, he may have still retained some of the ability — he just couldn't conceal his true nature any longer, ruining its usefulness as a disguise and reducing him from Magnificent Bastard and Mobile Menace to behind-the-scenes Chessmaster.
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The Silmarillion / int_213e1088	type	Losing the Team Spirit
The Silmarillion / int_213e1088	comment	Losing the Team Spirit The loss of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor has this quite understandable effect on the Valar, Maiar, and High Elves. It has the opposite effect on the Noldor though, causing them to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. After their king is killed in the Fifth Battle, the Dwarves just walk off the battlefield carrying his corpse. Nobody dares get in their way.
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The Silmarillion / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
The Silmarillion / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Carcharoth the venomous werewolf, guarding the Gates of Angband, who was fed on the people-flesh from his puppy years; and Huan the good wolfhound of Valinor, who occasionally talks. They kill each other.
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The Silmarillion / int_216ff5ed	type	Moses in the Bulrushes
The Silmarillion / int_216ff5ed	comment	Moses in the Bulrushes: Averted. The young half-elven princes ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn (the sons of Dior and the brothers of Elwing) are abandoned in the wilderness in the middle of winter... and never seen again. Played straighter in one (seemingly rejected) story with Elwing's sons, who are taken into the wild after the attack on the Havens of Sirion, then found in a cave behind a waterfall, and around the waterfall respectively. Hence, their names: Elrond (Elf of the Cave), and Elros (Elf of the Foam).
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The Silmarillion / int_21725cb2	type	Rash Promise
The Silmarillion / int_21725cb2	comment	Rash Promise: We have the Oath of FÃ«anor, where he swears with his sons that they will retrieve the Silmarils, no matter what. After three Kinslayings, hundreds of years of war and ruin, sacking of other Elven kingdoms because they held a Silmaril, and the Valar themselves declaring the oath void, the last two sons of FÃ«anor—Maedhros and Maglor—still sieze the last two Silmarils left on Middle-earth. They discover the hard way that their claim is indeed void when the holy Jewels torment them, driving Maedhros to suicide and Maglor to chuck his into the sea.
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The Silmarillion / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Silmarillion / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: A recurrent theme of the stories, and particularly prevalent among the Noldor and their allies. Even the Valar have these moments.
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The Silmarillion / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Silmarillion / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Werewolves eat people. Melkor hand-feeds Carcharoth with Elvish and Man flesh, yet the most chilling example has to be the werewolf that comes back again and again to drag away and eat Beren's companions, one by one, until only he and Finrod are left.
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The Silmarillion / int_224f98fa	type	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One
The Silmarillion / int_224f98fa	comment	It Sucks to Be the Chosen One: EÃ¤rendil is never allowed to return to Middle-earth. Instead, he becomes a planet.
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The Silmarillion / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
The Silmarillion / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Thingol sending Beren to fetch the Silmaril as a bride-price to marry LÃºthien.
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The Silmarillion / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Silmarillion / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "O, TÃºrin Turambar! Master of doom by doom mastered!"
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The Silmarillion / int_242b7b18	type	First Time in the Sun
The Silmarillion / int_242b7b18	comment	First Time in the Sun: The Elves are born under the new stars, and Men when the Sun is made, so that these things are the first that they see.
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The Silmarillion / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Silmarillion / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: FÃ«anor in his Rage Against the Heavens. TÃºrin with his attempt to fight fate and beat Morgoth's curse. The entire Noldorin enterprise of waging war against Morgoth. NÃ¡mo Mandos points out to them at the very beginning of the rebellion that they can't actually defeat Morgoth, but they spend 590 years trying anyway. As in The Lord of the Rings, force of arms proves largely useless in the face of evil. The NÃºmenÃ³rean expedition to conquer the Undying Lands. They're no match against God himself. Morgoth's entire existence. His ultimate goal, to destroy everyone and everything that wasn't created by himself, was "nihilistic madness" as Tolkien put it; even if he had succeeded in reducing everything to primordial chaos he would have gone on raging, because even the chaos was created by Eru.
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The Silmarillion / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Silmarillion / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Failed with EÃ¶l and Maeglin; accidental with FÃ«anor and Amrod note in Tolkien's original version of the story. Not present in the published version.
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The Silmarillion / int_27b83210	type	Hufflepuff House
The Silmarillion / int_27b83210	comment	Hufflepuff House: the third Eldar clan, the Teleri, play this part in the Elder Days: the Vanyar were basically the Valar's teacher's pet and are the ones who eventually come to the rescue and mop up Morgoth's armies in the War of Wrath; the Noldor are the movers & shakers and the main protagonists in The Silmarillion, but the Teleri are the clan who tarried the longest time in the journey to Valinor; once arrived they accomplished nothing notable and end up being essentially known for being the ones on the wrong end of the Noldorin stick. On the other hand, one of their subbranches, the Sindar or Grey Elves, accomplished much more in Beleriand, where the Nandor or Green Elves were this trope to the Sindar.
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The Silmarillion / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
The Silmarillion / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: LÃºthien the half-Maia, leading to very Royal Blood in her great-grandchildren Elros and Elrond and their progeny (and eventually Aragorn and Arwen).
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The Silmarillion / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
The Silmarillion / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Maedhros when Fingon rescued him from Thangorodrim. Specifically, Maedhros preferred to die; Fingon is the one who decided to cut off his hand instead.
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The Silmarillion / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
The Silmarillion / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Maglor, after murdering yet more people, then stealing the last Silmaril and throwing it away, is wracked by guilt and spends the rest of time wandering around the shores of Middle-earth in regret and pain.
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The Silmarillion / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
The Silmarillion / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: You might think so, what with the Orcs, Dragons, Trolls, Morgoth, and Ungoliant being hideously ugly bastards. With the Easterlings, it's even stated that the "uglier" ones were those who sided with Morgoth. But some ugly dudes (namely the DrÃºedain, or even the good old Dwarves) are among the most incorruptible good guys. And as for the beautiful people, well... keep in mind that all elves are superhumanly beautiful, regardless of their behavior. And try not to forget that most fallen Ainur can appear in whatever beautiful, pleasing form they like, the better to deceive you... It's explicitly stated that evil is an inherently corrupting force, thus any being who remains evil long enough will eventually become ugly because evil can only damage things. Both Morgoth and Sauron were explicitly stated to be incredibly beautiful at first, until their own evil deeds rendered them incapable of ever taking a fair form again.
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The Silmarillion / int_2bde52a3	type	Fantastic Firearms
The Silmarillion / int_2bde52a3	comment	Fantastic Firearms: Numenorians are said to have arrows that can be loosed from several miles away from an enemy, and strike unerringly. This sounds an awful lot like a sniper rifle to modern ears; maybe even with target-seeking ammo. They also have "eagles who carried lightning beneath their wings," a clear analogy to a fighter/bomber aircraft. "Magic" in Tolkien's Legendarium is said to be more akin to sufficiently-advanced science learned straight from God Himself (elves, and presumably Numenorians, can/could just run the equations mentally, making it look like they do magic), so wether they're literally magicked bows-and-arrows and literal thunderbolt-dropping eagles or hypertech weaponry seen from the point of view of their primitive descendants is unknown.
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The Silmarillion / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Silmarillion / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: FÃ«anor. Good Eru, FÃ«anor. Here, have a trampoline. HÃºrin is also this after he is released from Angband. Morgoth's Mind Rape left him convinced that Doriath and Brethil were partly responsible for his family's suffering, and that they needed to be, uh, punished. Averted with Tulkas, who's wise enough to know that it would be foolish and wrong to fight Melkor's rebellion with rebellion of his own.
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The Silmarillion / int_2ca98745	type	Rampage from a Nail
The Silmarillion / int_2ca98745	comment	Rampage from a Nail: Carcharoth eats Beren's Silmaril-holding hand and goes on a mad rampage through Doriath while it burns him from the inside out.
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The Silmarillion / int_2cf5eb14	type	Endless Winter
The Silmarillion / int_2cf5eb14	comment	Endless Winter: Utumno, and generally any other northern domain of Morgoth or his servants.
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The Silmarillion / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Silmarillion / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Ungoliant helps Morgoth destroy the Two Trees of Valinor, despite her fear, because he offers to pay her "with both hands" in edible Light, and she's starving. Their alliance lasts maybe an hour after they escape Valinor.
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The Silmarillion / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Silmarillion / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: The ending of AkallabÃªth. NÃºmenor is destroyed, DÃºnedain are exterminated, their kingdom is finished, and only a handful of stranded exiles survive. Sauron's physical form is killed, but he reincarnates quickly and re-establishes his kingdom. The only good thing is that his days as the manipulative Deceiver are over, because he can never assume an attractive form again. The tale of TÃºrin. Yes, TÃºrin managed to kill Glaurung, but so what. His life was still a tragedy that ended with his suicide, and the point of the curse was just to make HÃºrin watch as his family suffered. And then HÃºrin winds up leading Morgoth's forces to Gondolin anyway. The Silmarillion as a whole: after six centuries of war, the Noldor and their Sindarin and Mannish allies have been utterly defeated, their cities and strongholds laid waste, and only a wretched handful of survivors are left hiding in seaside marshes. Good thing EÃ¤rendil succeeded in bringing down the Wrath of the Gods— which nonetheless obliterated the entire land of Beleriand, and the Silmarils were still lost.
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The Silmarillion / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
The Silmarillion / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: In the published version, Maglor, one of the sons of Feanor, throws the Silmaril he's stolen into the sea and wanders the Earth singing, possibly to this day. In Tolkien's latest version, Maglor jumps into the sea together with the Silmaril.
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The Silmarillion / int_2fc2d6e1	type	Shapeshifter Mode Lock
The Silmarillion / int_2fc2d6e1	comment	Shapeshifter Mode Lock Morgoth uses his hideous form as the Dark Lord so often that he ultimately becomes trapped in it. The same thing happens to Sauron after his body is destroyed by the Downfall of NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«, perhaps from the trauma involved (before that, Sauron seems to have been just about the most adept shapeshifter of all the named Ainur).
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The Silmarillion / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Silmarillion / int_309b8806	comment	Thanks to Morgoth's meddling, what Men as a whole view their mortality as. They actively resist it where possible, and see themselves as "flawed" in some way. It wasn't always so, as it's actually a Gift, not a curse from Eru (God), intrinsic to their design. Those who understand the gift best know it's meant to sunder their fates from Elves for bigger and better things beyond imagination.
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The Silmarillion / int_323ce46	type	Cain and Abel and Seth
The Silmarillion / int_323ce46	comment	Cain and Abel and Seth: Add the third brother Finarfin, who is said to be "the fairest and wisest of all Noldor". He eventually becomes the High King of Noldor at Undying Lands and presumably still rules at TÃºna.
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The Silmarillion / int_347e35d6	type	Grim Up North
The Silmarillion / int_347e35d6	comment	Grim Up North: Morgoth's fortresses, Utumno and Angband, lie in the extreme north of Arda. Morgoth is the reason the extreme north is a frozen wasteland.
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The Silmarillion / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Silmarillion / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Barahir's outlaws, still fighting against Morgoth after Dorthonion is conquered in the Dagor Bragollach. Aerin, a kinswoman of TÃºrin's who married an Easterling, is also implied to have done some good in secret while Dor-LÃ²min was being occupied by Easterlings.
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The Silmarillion / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Silmarillion / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: The particular difficulty of creating the Two Trees meant that Yavanna was incapable of recreating them after they were killed by Ungoliant. The only recourse would have been to take the last remnant of their Light from the Silmarils (thus destroying them) to revive them. Likewise, the creation of the Silmarils was a task so physically and spiritually demanding of FÃ«anor that recreating them would have been impossible, which is why he refused to let them be destroyed even if meant the restoration of the two trees.
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The Silmarillion / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
The Silmarillion / int_36c94bed	comment	Turin Turambar. Yes, he has the curse of Morgoth on him, but if he'd stopped wangsting for just five minutes and actually thought about what he was doing he wouldn't have become the Person of Mass Destruction who managed to kill just about everybody who ever cared about him - not to mention a whole Elven kingdom.
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The Silmarillion / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
The Silmarillion / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence: The War of Wrath. The entire host of Morgoth and the entire host of Valinor duke it out for nearly 60 years non-stop, destroying an entire continent in the process.
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The Silmarillion / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Silmarillion / int_38d02d44	comment	Here comes the Batman Gambit: He then becomes Ar-PharazÃ´n's advisor, encouraging his hatred for the Valar. Finally, he convinces the NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«ans to worship Morgoth with human sacrifices â€” in exchange for eternal life â€” and becomes High Priest of this new religion. After several decades of this, Ar-PharazÃ´n is growing old, so Sauron gives him the idea of invading Valinor and taking immortality from the Valar.
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The Silmarillion / int_3921601c	type	Divine Delegation
The Silmarillion / int_3921601c	comment	Divine Delegation: Tolkien, being a devout Catholic, did not want to create a cosmology that directly contradicted his religion, but he really loved Norse mythology, so this was a compromise between those two views. Eru (the biblical monotheistic God) creates the template of the Universe and its history via the "Great Music", while the Valar and Maiar (correspondent of Norse gods or Christian angels) effect the physical act of creation.
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The Silmarillion / int_3947a03f	type	Celestial Paragons and Archangels
The Silmarillion / int_3947a03f	comment	Celestial Paragons and Archangels: The Valar, the most powerful beings in existence below Eru. Morgoth happened to be the most powerful of them, and rebelled against his maker.
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The Silmarillion / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Silmarillion / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: The first time the Noldor witnessed the Gift of Men firsthand was the passing of BÃ«or the Old, who died at the age of 93, after 44 years as the vassal and friend of Finrod Felagund. That he died willingly and peacefully, without wound or sickness, seemed a strange fate indeed to the Elves.
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The Silmarillion / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Silmarillion / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Towards the end of Numenor, Ar-Pharazon was the mightiest tyrant that the world had seen since the reign of Morgoth, but secretly Sauron ruled all from behind the throne.
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The Silmarillion / int_3a29c5c8	type	Villainous Legacy
The Silmarillion / int_3a29c5c8	comment	Villainous Legacy: Even after the Big Bad Melkor/Morgoth was thrust by the Valar through the Door of Night beyond the Walls of the World into the Timeless Void, he was the ultimate cause of much of the evil in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is said to have created the orcs by cruelly torturing and corrupting captured elves. Sauron (the Big Bad of The Lord of the Rings) was one of the Maiar that Melkor corrupted and turned to the path of evil. The Balrogs were other Maiar that Melkor corrupted. The Fellowship encountered a Balrog in Moria. This was specifically stated in The Silmarillion. The tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth was entitled Morgoth's Ring, referencing a quote stating that just as the One Ring was Sauron's Soul Jar, since Morgoth was involved in the creation of the world itself, his influence cannot be expelled from it even after he himself has been physically removed.
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The Silmarillion / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
The Silmarillion / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: The rear-guard action after the NÃrnaeth, courtesy of HÃºrin Thalion and the other Men of Dor-lÃ³min. On the eastern front, the Dwarves of Belegost were the last to retreat and probably would have fought to the last dwarf, if Glaurung hadn't slain their king. Afterwards, they made a slow, dignified withdrawal while singing a funeral dirge, and none of Morgoth's forces dared to approach.
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The Silmarillion / int_3b619d4a	type	Artifact of Hope
The Silmarillion / int_3b619d4a	comment	Artifact of Hope: The titular Silmarils are a matching set of Power Crystals forged by an Elf that contains that last pure light in the world after the Two Trees are felled. Their touch burns the evil and unworthy, and they still inspire hope three ages of Middle-earth later in The Lord of the Rings. The Silmaril that ends up in the sky is even called "Gil-Estel, the Star of High Hope" when it first appears there.
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The Silmarillion / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Silmarillion / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck Thanks to Morgoth's meddling, what Men as a whole view their mortality as. They actively resist it where possible, and see themselves as "flawed" in some way. It wasn't always so, as it's actually a Gift, not a curse from Eru (God), intrinsic to their design. Those who understand the gift best know it's meant to sunder their fates from Elves for bigger and better things beyond imagination. The Elves in their turn consider their immortality a Blessing With Suck, because they cannot leave the world even if they want to, but the audience is not likely to agree with them. The Elves' particular version of immortality consists of "fading," or in other words of their spirits gradually burning away their flesh: they become something resembling ghosts if they stay in Middle-earth. (This is why they're leaving for the West at the time of The Lord of the Rings.) Even staying in Valinor won't help in the long run as they will eventually grow weary of the same old world they can't leave, while Men get to experience the wondrous new things Eru has planned for them after their death.
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The Silmarillion / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
The Silmarillion / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: FÃ«anor's body spontaneously combusts upon death.
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The Silmarillion / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Silmarillion / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle For all his strength, both times Morgoth fought with Tulkas resulted in Morgoth taking a dirt nap; the fact that Tulkas was tough enough to subdue Morgoth one-on-one was the reason he came to Arda. IlÃºvatar versus NÃºmenor, guess who wins? The Battle of Unnumbered Tears (the fifth battle of Beleriand in chronology) is depicted as a noble effort by the Elves, Men and Dwarves to finish off Morgoth once and for all, but turns into a catastrophic defeat for them. The duel between Morgoth and Fingolfin. Though Fingolfin wounded Morgoth several times, it was ultimately a battle of a mortal Elf against the equivalent of Satan. The Siege of Gondolin also ends in utter ruin for the Noldor. Sauron and Finrod's duel. Sauron's magical abilities were unmatchable for a reason. Sauron and Huan. Sauron's abilities against a Valinor warhound weren't as unmatchable. The second war between Sauron and NÃºmenor, in which Sauron's entire army runs from them without a fight. As it was planned.
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The Silmarillion / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Silmarillion / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Thingol to TÃºrin, Annael to Tuor. The strangest, if strangely heartwarming, case is of course Maglor's fostering of Elros and Elrond.
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The Silmarillion / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Silmarillion / int_3f70415	comment	Beren and LÃºthien, Because Destiny Says So.
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The Silmarillion / int_3f99197c	type	Beleaguered Childhood Friend
The Silmarillion / int_3f99197c	comment	Beleaguered Childhood Friend: Beleg finds that TÃºrin, his wayward friend, has become the leader of some rather unscrupulous outlaws. He proceeds to both help them and (try to) bang some morals into them.
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The Silmarillion / int_4056daeb	type	Rash Equilibrium
The Silmarillion / int_4056daeb	comment	Rash Equilibrium: Maedhros and Morgoth, immediately following the death of FÃ«anor. They agree to have a "parley" but neither trusts the other or intends to keep the peace, and both bring more soldiers than they agreed. This ends very badly.
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The Silmarillion / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Silmarillion / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Half the endings in the book. The other half are plain depressing. The "Quenta Silmarillion" overall has a bittersweet ending, with Morgoth overthrown but nearly every main character dead.
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The Silmarillion / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Silmarillion / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: HÃºrin to Morgoth. There's an attempted but failed one from TÃºrin to Glaurung when they first meet. Glaurung releases TÃºrin from his spell, having given him a Hannibal Lecture with him stuck to the spot by hypnosis and then gives him another when the spell is lifted. TÃºrin comes forward to try to stab his eyes out with his sword, but Glaurung "towers above him", puts him back under his spell and resumes the lecture.
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The Silmarillion / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Silmarillion / int_424c9a9b	comment	HÃºrin is a ruined shell of his former self after decades of Cold-Blooded Torture and Mind Rape.
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The Silmarillion / int_424d15ad	type	Love Hurts
The Silmarillion / int_424d15ad	comment	TÃºrin has two tragic love interests: Finduilas the princess of Nargothrond, who Cannot Spit It Out to him and ends up enslaved and killed while he is paralyzed by Glaurung, and later his own lost sister Niniel, whom he finds amnesiac on Finduilas' grave. Tuor, meanwhile, is Happily Married to Idril.
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The Silmarillion / int_43555d33	type	Heroes Prefer Swords
The Silmarillion / int_43555d33	comment	TÃºrin's weapon is a sword of Thunderbolt Iron, but it is an Evil Weapon and its most notorious killings are those of Beleg, TÃºrin's friend, Brandir, a jealous but true-speaking suitor of Niniel and TÃºrin himself; Tuor wields a great axe.
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The Silmarillion / int_43ae1aba	type	World's Most Beautiful Woman
The Silmarillion / int_43ae1aba	comment	World's Most Beautiful Woman: LÃºthien, canonically. Her face actually shines, and she's so pretty she manages to enchant Morgoth. She is the daughter of a Maia though.
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The Silmarillion / int_441ccbad	type	Talking Weapon
The Silmarillion / int_441ccbad	comment	Talking Weapon: Gurthang, once, before TÃºrin's suicide. Unless he was hallucinating, of course.
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The Silmarillion / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
The Silmarillion / int_449584c	comment	Giant Wall of Watery Doom: The end of NÃºmenor.
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The Silmarillion / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Silmarillion / int_44fc28e8	comment	Emeldir, Barahir's wife and the mother of Beren, was called "Man-Hearted", because she preferred to fight alongside her husband and son when Orcs came raiding. After the Dagor Bragollach, the land was being overrun by the enemy so she gathered together all the women and children that still remained and led them out of Dorthonion to Brethil. Beren, Barahir, and their ten companions stayed behind because they refused to abandon the land to Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_454e6cf5	type	Hypnotic Eyes
The Silmarillion / int_454e6cf5	comment	Hypnotic Eyes: At the sack of Nargothrond, the hero Turin is hypnotized by the dragon Glaurung just as he is going to attack Glaurung and unwisely looks into the latter's "lidless eyes". As Glaurung holds him under a spell, Turin stands passive as the captives of Nargothrond are driven away, and only regains (part of) his senses when the dragon withdraws his gaze. Later Turin's sister Nienor is found by Glaurung and by "constrain[ing] her to gaze into his eyes" makes her forget her past and identity. She only regains her memory many years later at the death of Glaurung.
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The Silmarillion / int_45994f3f	type	Villainous Vow
The Silmarillion / int_45994f3f	comment	Villainous Vow: Feanor and his sons swear to regain the Silmarils at any cost, and to destroy anyone who impedes their goal. The supplementary work "The History of Middle-earth" gives the full oath as follows:
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The Silmarillion / int_4603ea49	type	Mystical Plague
The Silmarillion / int_4603ea49	comment	Mystical Plague: J. R. R. Tolkien seems to have liked this trope: The Silmarillion mentions a plague apparently sent by Sauron to weaken Gondor so he could regain control of Mordor. A mystical plague sent by Morgoth before the Fifth Battle is what killed TÃºrin Turambar's younger sister Lalaith.
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The Silmarillion / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Silmarillion / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: LÃºthien gives herself one when she needs to escape from the treehouse her father's locked her up in: She magically lets her dark hair grow impossibly long, cuts it, and makes a rope to escape the treehouse and a cloak of super-camouflage.
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The Silmarillion / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Silmarillion / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe example with ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn, the grandchildren of Beren and LÃºthien, who are seized during the assault on Doriath by the servants of the Sons of FÃ«anor and left to starve in the forest: "of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath; but his search was unavailing, and of the fate of ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn no tale tells."
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The Silmarillion / int_46d0907f	type	The Man in the Moon
The Silmarillion / int_46d0907f	comment	The Man in the Moon: The sun and the moon are the last fruit and flower, respectively, from the Two Trees of Valinor, and act as lanterns in the sky; Arien, a female Maia, carries the sun. Tilion, a male Maia, carries the moon, in ships constructed by AulÃ«. Tilion is in love with the aloof Arien and chases her across the firmament. When he catches up to her, an eclipse is produced; however, he can never stay long as her glory burns him.
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The Silmarillion / int_4756bfdd	type	Swan Boats
The Silmarillion / int_4756bfdd	comment	Swan Boats: When the Teleri (Sea Elves) of the Lonely Isle EressÃ«a wanted to emigrate to Valinor, they travelled in ships pulled by large swans. They named their new city AlqualondÃ« (Swanhaven) and built their later ships in the shape of swans, with feathers made of pearls.
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The Silmarillion / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
The Silmarillion / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship Amandil and Ar-PharazÃ´n, who befriended each other when Ar-PharazÃ´n was a boy. Also, any friendship between an Elf and a Man (such as Beleg and TÃºrin, and Tuor and VoronwÃ«) technically counts, as the Elf is nearly always decades or centuries older. Finrod Felagund's friendships with BÃ«or and Barahir carry over to Beren, their descendant. He was also close friends with Andreth of the House of BÃ«or. TÃºrin and Sador, a former soldier who was crippled in an accident. Many friendships among elves count, due to their immortality. Look at Galadriel and Elrond, who are kind of buddies in the Third Age: Galadriel is FinwÃ«'s granddaughter, whereas Elrond is his great-great-great-grandson. She is also his mother-in-law: Elrond married her daughter, CelebrÃan.
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The Silmarillion / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Silmarillion / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey TÃºrin, yet again. Yeah, his life sucked that bad. There's a reason for it, too. First, the Doom of the Noldor hit his bloodline pretty hard for various reasons. And then Morgoth just went ahead and added his own curse on top of that. There was pretty much no way it was going to end well, not that TÃºrin knew it at the time. FÃ«anor's sons, too. The whole quest for the Silmarilli just puts them (and hell, the rest of the Noldor) through increasingly worse disasters and failures. Of course, it is entirely their own fault.
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The Silmarillion / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
The Silmarillion / int_4832a3bb	comment	Morgoth's realm, centered around Angband. It runs on the backs of slaves, the army is Always Chaotic Evil, the main entertainment is Cold-Blooded Torture, and the whole goal is to conquer and kill everybody on Earth.
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The Silmarillion / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Silmarillion / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: The Elves of Nargothrond. They employed guerilla tactics against the forces of Morgoth and preferred to use stealth and cunning over outright force. The main reason for this was that if Morgoth found out where the city was located, he would bring all his forces to bear and the city would surely be destroyed. And when TÃºrin Turambar convinced them to face Morgoth's armies in the open (against a god's advice, no less), that's exactly what happened. Well, it's not like anyone else (coughTurgoncough) ever listens to Ulmo's advice.
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The Silmarillion / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
The Silmarillion / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Almaren, a large island in the Great Lake and the original home of the Valar, was destroyed by Melkor in the year 3450. Although it is stated the island was sank, it is also stated that both Almaren and the entire Great Lake itself disappeared from existence afterward, no trace of either ever seen again.
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The Silmarillion / int_4b220918	type	Godhood Seeker
The Silmarillion / int_4b220918	comment	Godhood Seeker: In the Second and Third Ages, it is Sauron's goal to become god-king of Middle-earth. He succeeds partially, as the populations of the East and South worship him as a god of fire. Though in a downplay, he's already an angelic spirit (Maia), while his former master Morgoth was a godlike archangel (Vala) with a lower-case g. He (and Morgoth before him) just wants to graduate to big-G God. For obvious reasons, the guy who already has that job isn't very happy about that.note To clarify: Both Morgoth and Sauron, like all Maiar and Valar, were created by the God, Eru IlÃºvatar. The Maiar are lesser than the Valar. Power exponentially increases as you go up this chain, and within each group there are varying degrees. For example, the Maiar include Melian, Sauron, the Balrogs, and the Istari (Gandalf being the most famous one).
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The Silmarillion / int_4d422f71	type	Throw It In!
The Silmarillion / int_4d422f71	comment	Throw It In!: As it turns out, the Dwarves were never part of IlÃºvatar's original plan for creation like the Elves and Men were. AulÃ«, one of the Valar, jumped the gun a bit and created the Dwarves out of a desire for pupils to teach his skills to, and to help oppose Morgoth's dark influences. When IlÃºvatar got wind of what AulÃ« had done, He at first scolded AulÃ« but ultimately He accepted the value of the new race and gave them free will and a place in creation.
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The Silmarillion / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Silmarillion / int_4e3d253b	comment	Also the sons of FÃ«anor. They spend nearly 600 years chasing the Silmarils... to no avail.
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The Silmarillion / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
The Silmarillion / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: Fingon's rescue of Maedhros on Thangorodrim, after all that's come between them — and when he sets out to do it Fingon thinks, with good reason, that Maedhros has pulled an Et Tu, Brute? on him (which is subverted:Maedhros is in fact the only one of the FÃ«anorians who stands aside at the betrayal of the Fingolfinian camp at Losgar). Unfortunately even after that heroic rescue, Maedhros' Conflicting Loyalty issues mean that the Oath, as before, must always come before everything.
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The Silmarillion / int_4e887103	type	The Aloner
The Silmarillion / int_4e887103	comment	The Aloner: Maglor. Oh, poor Maglor, never allowed to return back to Undying Lands, in constant pain from his Silmaril-burned hand, forever lamenting his and his brothers' violent stupidity.
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The Silmarillion / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
The Silmarillion / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: It isn't a surefire thing, so don't assume Beauty Equals Goodness or you might end up like Celebrimbor. But evil does tend to turn formerly handsome beings into freakish monsters. The orcs, bred from elves and/or Men, are apparently among the most hideous things alive (Morgoth probably made them deliberately ugly, to mock Eru). Dragons are even more repulsive, and smell gut-wrenchingly vile. Even Morgoth and Sauron, originally able to assume any shape they pleased, eventually suffered Shapeshifter Mode Lock as a result of their moral falls, and became stuck in shapes as outwardly horrible as their evil souls.
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The Silmarillion / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Silmarillion / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Maedhros repents for abandoning ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn in the forest but never finds them. He and Maglor possibly raise Elros and Elrond to atone for this after driving their mother Elwing, ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn's sister, over the sea.
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The Silmarillion / int_4f292929	type	Tall, Dark, and Snarky
The Silmarillion / int_4f292929	comment	TÃºrin is Tall, Dark, and Snarky as well as Dark Is Not Evil, while Tuor could be described with Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold and Light Is Good.
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The Silmarillion / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Silmarillion / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Curufin. When your evil scheme gets derailed by your brother's talking dog before it even gets off the ground, you're probably not as awesome as you think you are.
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The Silmarillion / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
The Silmarillion / int_504333fe	comment	A God I Am Not: When the Elven Prince Finrod met the Race of Men, they mistook him for one of the Valar (they had met elves earlier, but they were not like the Light Elves). Finrod disillusioned them as soon as he was able to, explaining that he was not a Vala but an elf. The Valar lived beyond the Western Ocean, and the only (ex)-Vala in the vicinity was trouble.
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The Silmarillion / int_52600ad6	type	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
The Silmarillion / int_52600ad6	comment	Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Fingolfin manages to inflict several wounds to Morgoth, but is eventually slain.
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The Silmarillion / int_5281d5b1	type	Our Dwarves Are All the Same
The Silmarillion / int_5281d5b1	comment	Our Dwarves Are All the Same: This holds true in all cases save for the Petty Dwarves.
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The Silmarillion / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Silmarillion / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Morgoth has several beings that occupy high command positions. Sauron is the greatest and most trusted of his servants, Gothmog Lord of Balrogs is the general of his armies, and Glaurung the Father of Dragons serves as both strategist, manipulator and enforcer, particularly after Sauron's humiliation at Luthien and Huan's hands. All of whom serve as The Heavy for one of Tolkien's Great Tales: Sauron in Beren and Luthien, Glaurung for The Children of HÃºrin, and Gothmog for The Fall of Gondolin.
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The Silmarillion / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
The Silmarillion / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: Arda is one until the Change of the World, when the world is made round, new lands (the Americas, by allegory) are added to fill the new hemisphere, and Valinor (and the Lands of the Sun) are removed from the circles of the world.
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The Silmarillion / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
The Silmarillion / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: Morgoth's realm, centered around Angband. It runs on the backs of slaves, the army is Always Chaotic Evil, the main entertainment is Cold-Blooded Torture, and the whole goal is to conquer and kill everybody on Earth. NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« becomes one during its last days. They colonize large swaths of Middle-earth, and control all the oceans. They also cut down all the old forests on the northwest continent to build fleets, and enslave entire native populations. And it gets worse during the reign of Ar-PharazÃ´n, who is described as the greatest tyrant in the world since Morgoth himself. They come "no more as the benevolent kings of old, not even as harsh rulers, but as fierce men of war" who sacrifice scores of people on the altars of Morgoth every day, using the Middle-earth natives, and take many others to slavery*(one might wonder how much the trip to NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« resembled the horrific "middle passage" of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade). This is more or less the reason why the Gondorians, descendants of the NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«ans, are so hated by the Dunlendings, and probably some of the Haradrim and Easterlings, too.
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The Silmarillion / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Silmarillion / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Darkness not as a sign of evil. TÃºrin Turambar, a badass Anti-Hero Doom Magnet who was armed with a black sword and armor. He also had black hair and pale skin. Dark Elves, or Moriquendi. They don't have jet black skin or live in the thrall of a Religion of Evil like the Dungeons & Dragons Dark Elves, they just never saw the light of the Two Trees and are thus "of darkness" and comparatively uneducated. As a whole, they have just as much potential to be evil or good as other Elves. Mandos is essentially Tolkien's Hades. He's closely associated with death, but only as the caretaker and judge of dead souls. He's stern and unyielding, but just and entirely on the good side of things. The elves are often mentioned to cherish nighttime, when the stars come out.
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The Silmarillion / int_578a2681	type	Treacherous Spirit Chase
The Silmarillion / int_578a2681	comment	Treacherous Spirit Chase: Gorlim refuses to believe that his wife Eilinel, who went missing during Gorlim's absence in the war against Morgoth, is dead. Sauron uses this belief against Gorlim by creating a vision of Eilinel as bait inside Gorlim's house. Gorlim enters and is immediately captured by Sauron's orcs, and eventually tortured into revealing the location of Barahir.
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The Silmarillion / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Silmarillion / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Tuor briefly crosses paths with his cousin TÃºrin. Neither knows who the other is, as they've never met before.
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The Silmarillion / int_5889ca1d	type	Mineral MacGuffin
The Silmarillion / int_5889ca1d	comment	Mineral MacGuffin: The eponymous Silmarils.
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The Silmarillion / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Silmarillion / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: This trope applies when FÃ«anor and his sons, who are villainous (or anti-villainous) to varying degrees, are engaged in battle against Morgoth. Develops into Morality Kitchen Sink when the former are joined by more honourable Elves and Men (such as those from the House of Fingolfin).
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The Silmarillion / int_59aa1d0b	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Silmarillion / int_59aa1d0b	comment	Recycled IN SPACE!: Dagor Dagorath is Armageddon/RagnarÃ¶k IN MIDDLE-EARTH! The fall of NÃºmenor, also known as AkallabÃªth or AtalantÃ«, is Atlantis's destruction IN MIDDLE-EARTH!
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The Silmarillion / int_5a9f7f08	type	The Lifestream
The Silmarillion / int_5a9f7f08	comment	Aegnor and Andreth are a variant. Andreth died and left the world forever. When Aegnor died, he could not follow her because being an elf, his life is tied to the world's. So he refused reincarnation and decided to remain in the Halls of Mandos forever because being permanently dead was the closest that he could get to being together in death with Andreth.
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The Silmarillion / int_5ac8f358	type	Hordes from the East
The Silmarillion / int_5ac8f358	comment	The one time the two cousins cross paths, TÃºrin is going north to Dor Lomin which is devastated by Hordes from the East, and Tuor is marching south to Vinyamar, an abandoned Elven fortress. They never say a word to each other.
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The Silmarillion / int_5bc1ce14	type	Author Vocabulary Calendar
The Silmarillion / int_5bc1ce14	comment	The word "doom" used to mean "destiny" appears all over the frickin' place in this book.
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The Silmarillion / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
The Silmarillion / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Happens to TÃºrin with his sister, although the reader knows all along.
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The Silmarillion / int_5bd1083d	type	Holy Is Not Safe
The Silmarillion / int_5bd1083d	comment	Holy Is Not Safe: The Silmarils themselves, which burn away anyone insufficiently pure who tries to touch them.
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The Silmarillion / int_5ddcb41f	type	World Shapes
The Silmarillion / int_5ddcb41f	comment	World Shapes: An early unpublished version of Arda (the world) was shaped like a boat sailing through the blackness of outer space. The later version of Arda that most readers know start out as a rock with a flat side where Middle-earth is. Eventually a divine cataclysm messes it up and makes it a familiar, boring, round shape.
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The Silmarillion / int_5ec9f980	type	Drunk on the Dark Side
The Silmarillion / int_5ec9f980	comment	Drunk on the Dark Side: One elf who heard FÃ«anor's speech said it felt like being "besotted as with wine."
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The Silmarillion / int_5ecdd585	type	Renegade Splinter Faction
The Silmarillion / int_5ecdd585	comment	Renegade Splinter Faction: FÃ«anor and his sons and followers to the High Elves.
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The Silmarillion / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
The Silmarillion / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: The longest-lived Men get a couple hundred years. Elves can go on until the end of the world, though they become increasingly "faded"/ghostlike with the passage of time, if they remain outside the Undying Realms. No mortal ever enters the Undying Realms; a few are granted a refuge on the Lonely Isle right outside it, but even those mortals who arrive by invitation (like Frodo) remain mortal and eventually die. EÃ¤rendil's father Tuor is the only pure Man implied to become immortal without suffering undeath or a Fate Worse than Death, and that could be Fan Wanked as an odd sort of Balancing Death's Books from Eru, who'd just fairly recently made an immortal elf (LÃºthien) into a mortal.One of Tolkien's letters stated that it was impossible for the Valar to make any Man truly immortal. If one ever entered the Undying Lands, they would exist and seemingly not age long past when they should have died, but their life would gradually become unbearable, since it would just be their natural lifespan spread out continuously (similar to what happened to Gollum and Bilbo with the One Ring). Also, it is said in the book that death is Eru's gift to mortals and the Valar don't have the right or ability to take it from them — only Eru can, and Tuor was likely the only such exception.
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The Silmarillion / int_603b77ec	type	Savage Wolves
The Silmarillion / int_603b77ec	comment	Savage Wolves: The werewolves (Gaurhoth) in general embody and represent this classic European trope in The Silmarillion. They're the giant, evil, corrupted, probably demonic/demon-possessed wolves bred by Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Silmarillion / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Morgoth (Dark Enemy), Angband (Hell of Iron), The Valley of Dreadful Death. See Meaningful Name.
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The Silmarillion / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Silmarillion / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: The NÃºmenÃ³rean fleet that attacks Valinor was armed with "darts that could travel across an ocean." Being Middle-earth, of course, it's hard to say where the line can be drawn between magic and technology. The Noldor have the means to create synthetic gemstones superior in quality to natural ones. At some points it's mentioned that the Noldor use crystals filled with light as energy-efficient light bulbs when going into dark places, a (magi)tech Men haven't quite mastered. Indeed, their inventor FÃ«anor didn't share the secret formula with anyone before his death.
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The Silmarillion / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Silmarillion / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Sauron, very briefly. At the end of the First Age, he considers supplicating himself in repentance to the Valar, but out of fear for the punishment he rightly deserves, he ultimately turns away from the light for good. It's not clear, however, if he would have become permanently good had he accepted their justice, or just good enough to be accepted and make his next evil move like Melkor had done before. Celebrimbor turns against his house, disgusted by his kin's Kinslaying.
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The Silmarillion / int_62c1f9a9	type	Evil Versus Oblivion
The Silmarillion / int_62c1f9a9	comment	Evil Versus Oblivion: Morgoth and Ungoliant's alliance falls apart partly because Morgoth wants to rule the world, whereas Ungoliant wants to devour everything. Needless to say, their mutually exclusive goals start a fight, one which Ungoliant nearly wins until the balrogs come to save Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Silmarillion / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: FÃ«anor and his seven sons, with the possible exception of Maglor.
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The Silmarillion / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Silmarillion / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: King Finrod Felagund following Beren on his suicidal quest knowing it will kill him, and finally saving him from a werewolf. Glorfindel dying to save the refugees of Gondolin from a Balrog.
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The Silmarillion / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Silmarillion / int_6627695f	comment	Tolkien's wife Edith was a fair-skinned brunette, and apparently his own aesthetic preferences combined with what seem to be ancient Celtic standards of beauty*most were probably dark-haired, not redheaded to make this combination the most common for the really beautiful people. Elves, of course, are the most beautiful incarnates, very tall and always superhumanly healthy and physically perfect (unless they're maimed or something). And the great majority of elves have pale skin and black or dark brown hair. Some of them are especially emphasized for their dark-haired-pale-skinned beauty: LÃºthien, the daughter of Melian the Maia and most beautiful woman in the world (and sort-of-avatar for Edith Tolkien), and her descendant Arwen in The Lord of the Rings.
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The Silmarillion / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Silmarillion / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Beren (Tolkien) and LÃºthien (his wife Edith). These names are even on their tombstones.
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The Silmarillion / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Silmarillion / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Several times. Fingolfin, High-King of the Noldor, duels Morgoth and strikes seven wounds against the mightiest and most evil being in all of Middle Earth, even permanently maiming his foot, through sheer skill and Deadly Dodging. Though he was eventually caught and killed, his valiant battle is still remembered among the Noldor as one of the finest moments of elven history. AzaghÃ¢l the Dwarf-King is literally crushed under the weight of Glaurung, the Father of Dragons, but with his last breath he drives a dagger into the wyrm's belly and gravely wounds it enough to drive it away, saving his kin in the process. FÃ«anor, High King of the Noldor, stated in canon to be the most clever and most skilled elf in history, singlehandedly routs an army of orcs and chases them into a trap against seven Balrogs. Even though he is wounded and on fire, he fights against the demonic creatures for hours until Morgoth sends out a Balrog as powerful as Sauron to kill him... and FÃ«anor still refuses to go down until his sons and their armies arrive to rescue him. He dies of full body burns and severe wounds a few hours later and the sheer anger and refusal of FÃ«anor to die causes his body to disintegrate into burning ash. Very in-character for him. Finrod Felagund, Galadriel's brother and the King of Nargothrond, saves his friend Beren from a werewolf by breaking free of his bonds and killing it with his bare hands and teeth, and the two kill each other. This act of nobility allowed him to be reincarnated in Valinor, the first elf to do so before the First Age. Even relatively "ordinary" Noldor get in on this. Glorfindel fought a Balrog on the bridge of Cirith Thoronath in a mirror of how Gandalf would fight the Balrog in The Lord of the Rings, stabbing the Balrog in the belly and throwing it (and himself) off the bridge to their mutual deaths. So impressed were the Valar that they permitted him to return to life in Middle Earth in the Second Age.
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The Silmarillion / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Silmarillion / int_680bb6b1	comment	FÃ«anor (spirit of fire)
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The Silmarillion / int_686c9ad7	type	Only the Pure of Heart
The Silmarillion / int_686c9ad7	comment	Only the Pure of Heart: If someone who has become tainted by evil touches the Silmarils, they get burned. It happens to Morgoth when he steals them, and to Carcharoth when he bites off Beren's hand when Beren was holding a Silmaril, and to Maedhros and Maglor after the War of Wrath. When they finally recover the gems, they will no longer suffer their touch because of all the evil deeds they've committed to fulfill their oath to get them back. The third ends up with EÃ¤rendil, who ends up sailing the skies as a star.note Which brings up the question of what would've happened if FÃ«anor had actually been able to reclaim them. As their creator does he get to have them no matter what? Or does the Pure of Heart clause apply to him as well? We may never know.
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The Silmarillion / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Silmarillion / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Ungoliant becomes this and almost eats Morgoth. He needs a bunch of Balrogs to chase her away. You get the idea. Ungoliant also eats light, making herself huge, swollen, and more powerful, and emitting an "Unlight", which is not just darkness but a void that actively consumes light. Worse yet, nobody knows where she came from or what happened to her. She is said "to have descended from the Outer Darkness, maybe, that lies in EÃ¤ beyond the walls of the World." After breeding with lesser spiders, she just... wandered off.
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The Silmarillion / int_6a1cbf28	type	Rebellious Princess
The Silmarillion / int_6a1cbf28	comment	Luthien: Rebellious Princess who saunters into Morgoth's lair, dances for him and puts him and his entire army to sleep with magic, then walks out with a Silmaril.
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The Silmarillion / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
The Silmarillion / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: TÃºrin's younger sister Lalaith dies of a plague that Morgoth sent, when she's three and he's six, instigating his dark and angsty worldview and leading to his descent into total berserk self-destruction, which ironically ended by suicide, just after the death of his other little sister.
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The Silmarillion / int_6a49268	type	"Just So" Story
The Silmarillion / int_6a49268	comment	"Just So" Story: There's a lot of this inserted here and there. In particular, a whole section of the text explains, gradually, how the sun and moon came to be, and a lot of other natural features in the process.
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The Silmarillion / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Silmarillion / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: In Tolkien's universe, war, ambition and violence seldom render good results, let alone positive long-term changes, because the Dark Lords are simply better than everybody else at using power and strength to achieving their goals. On the another hand, love, mercy, kindness...are forces that few people take seriously, even though more often than not they save the world. When Morgoth steals the Silmarils, the Noldor swear to go back to the Middle-Earth and make war upon him until getting their jewels back. Several centuries later, their armies are being crushed and all their power has not availed them to even see from afar the shining of one Silmaril. Enter Beren, who does not care for shiny jewels but is given the impossible task to bring one Silmaril to Thingol in exchange for his daughter's hand, and LÃºthien, who has no use for Silmarils either, but will not leave Beren alone...and they achieve out of love for each other what whole armies driven by pride, ambition, greed and revenge failed to do. Their love also proves to be stronger than the laws of metaphysics when Beren dies and his soul lingers in the Halls of Mandos instead of abandoning the world forever -as Humans are meant to-, because his wife asked him to wait for her.
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The Silmarillion / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
The Silmarillion / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: The Noldor leaving Aman to seek vengeance on Morgoth don't fully realize it at the beginning despite the dire warning of the Doom of Mandos, but they could never have defeated Morgoth on their own. On the other side of the coin, when the Valar answer EÃ¤rendil's prayer and go to Beleriand to stop Morgoth, they war for decades, but the Valar's triumph is inevitable.
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The Silmarillion / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Silmarillion / int_6bda9a30	comment	Feanor is the one who changes Melkor's title to Morgoth. It's pretty clear by then what he's become and how he's seen that he fully deserves the new name compared to the old one (see Meaningful Name for specifics).
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The Silmarillion / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Silmarillion / int_6d332aea	comment	FÃ«anor isn't the most sympathetic character, anyway. His two oldest sons, Maedhros and Maglor, are more sympathetic and probably more tragic, given that one is Driven to Suicide twice and the other spends the rest of his (immortal) life wandering along the seashore in constant pain, singing laments. Especially because by the end of six hundred years of warfare, destroying three elven societies, and the deaths of their four younger brothers in attempts to fulfill their Oath, they sincerely wanted to stop killing people and were largely just going through with the Oath because they thought they had no choice to break it.
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The Silmarillion / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
The Silmarillion / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Thingol to Beren and LÃºthien, leading to an Engagement Challenge.
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The Silmarillion / int_6dc10d3a	type	Ultimate Blacksmith
The Silmarillion / int_6dc10d3a	comment	Ultimate Blacksmith: AulÃ« (essentially a god of blacksmiths), FÃ«anor (created the silmarils along with numerous weapons and gems), EÃ¶l (forged Anguirel and Anglachel from Thunderbolt Iron, and created the black metal galvorn that was as strong as Dwarven steel but much easier to shape), Telchar of Nogrod (created Angrist and Narsil).
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The Silmarillion / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Silmarillion / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word Finrod, the freaking king of one of the most powerful of the Elven kingdoms, abandons his throne to help Beren on his suicidal quest simply because he promised Beren's father that he would do his utmost to aid him and his descendants. Finrod dies saving Beren's life. Also the sons of FÃ«anor. They spend nearly 600 years chasing the Silmarils... to no avail.
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The Silmarillion / int_7188e626	type	Incest-ant Admirer
The Silmarillion / int_7188e626	comment	Incest-ant Admirer: Maeglin lusted after his first cousin, Idril. Idril, however, is squicked by this (Eldar normally don't marry kin so close), and her rejection leaves him bitter; this becomes the seed of Gondolin's downfall.
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The Silmarillion / int_71d17dff	type	Everything Fades
The Silmarillion / int_71d17dff	comment	Everything Fades: Elves.
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The Silmarillion / int_71e8a5c5	type	Trauma Conga Line
The Silmarillion / int_71e8a5c5	comment	Trauma Conga Line: HÃºrin and his whole unfortunate family. TÃºrin probably got hit the hardest. The trauma makes up an entire novel, The Children of HÃºrin.
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The Silmarillion / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Silmarillion / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: TÃºrin's attempts to fight the curse of Morgoth only lead to failure and more misery — for him and everyone who comes within 10 miles.
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The Silmarillion / int_72bafff5	type	Doomed Moral Victor
The Silmarillion / int_72bafff5	comment	Doomed Moral Victor All of the Noldor who didn't partake in the Kinslaying. HÃºrin and his utter refusal to give in to Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Silmarillion / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Morgoth may be the central villain but the house of FÃ«anor are responsible for a pretty large percentage of large scale and minor threats the protagonists encounter. Morgoth's closest servants are also presented as individual Big Bads during key parts of the overall story. These include Ungoliant (who even shares a Duumvirate with Morgoth himself at this particular point) during The Darkening of Valinor, Sauron during the tales of Beren and LÃºthien and the AkallabÃªth, Glaurung in The Children of HÃºrin, and Gothmog during The Fall of Gondolin.
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The Silmarillion / int_74d9d78f	type	Hate at First Sight
The Silmarillion / int_74d9d78f	comment	Hate at First Sight: Idril dislikes and distrusts her cousin Maeglin, without really knowing why, almost as soon as she meets him, though she doesn't hate him. He falls in love with her and being unable to woo her, becomes so embittered he eventually betrays their whole city and got it sacked. FÃ«anor despises and hates his half-siblings before they're even born, and continues to hate them until he dies. And with the "friendly advice" of the Big Bad Morgoth he becomes paranoid, thinks they're out to get him, threatens to kill Fingolfin in cold blood, and then betrays his siblings and their families during the Noldorin rebellion. Fingolfin and Finarfin, having done nothing to actually harm FÃ«anor, try to make peace with him up to that point.
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The Silmarillion / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
The Silmarillion / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: On the heroic side of things you have most of the more noble characters like Frodo, EÃ¤rendil and Beren (though, even they aren't immune from making mistakes and moral lapses) and most of the Valar who always mean well but often make misguided choices. All the free peoples vary greatly, with morally ambigous characters like Thingol, Maglor, TÃºrin, MÃ®m, FÃ«anor, Gollum, and Thorin hovering in the middle and with Morgoth and his directly corrupted minons at the evil extreme. However, the moral compass of the series varies between each story, with The Lord of the Rings mostly (though not completely) revolving around Black-and-White Morality while Black And Gray dominates The Children of HÃºrin and The Hobbit (with shades of Grey-and-Gray Morality in both).
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The Silmarillion / int_76c72a08	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun
The Silmarillion / int_76c72a08	comment	The souls of Men and Hobbits are designed to leave the universe after a relatively short lifespan; trying to avoid this fate leads to serious problems (Gollum and the NazgÃ»l are examples).
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The Silmarillion / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
The Silmarillion / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Mountains of Terror, the Valley of Dreadful Death, the Gasping Dust. Got a real estate brochure? Angband, The Hell of Iron. Sounds cozy! Thangorodrim, the Mountains of Oppression. I want to live there!
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The Silmarillion / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Silmarillion / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: TÃºrin Turambar and NiÃ«nor NÃniel. To their credit, unfamiliarity and amnesia were involved.
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The Silmarillion / int_7784d502	type	Healing Herb
The Silmarillion / int_7784d502	comment	Healing Herb: LÃºthien uses one on Beren.
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The Silmarillion / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
The Silmarillion / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: Middle-earth is originally lit by the Two Lamps, Illuin and Ormal, which never go out. After Melkor throws them down, Yavanna lights Valinor in Endless Daytime with the Two Trees of Light. Perpetual day is the original blessed state of the world, along with the theme of light as the symbol of holiness.
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The Silmarillion / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
The Silmarillion / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: Despite Finduilas' romantic feelings towards him, TÃºrin looks at her in a more sisterly light. The same could be said for his sister NiÃ«nor; Brandir likes her romantically, but she loves him only platonically. Ironically both TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor manage to hook up with people whom they feel romantically attracted to but happen to actually be their siblings. That is, each other.
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The Silmarillion / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
The Silmarillion / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: Specifically Combat by Champion. (Between the High King and the God of Evil.)
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The Silmarillion / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Silmarillion / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: The Elves, Ents and Ainur live forever, within the lifespan of the world Arda, and never age in any way that mortals can perceive. They can perceive themselves getting "old," but even the Elves only start fading if they spend tens of thousands of years in Middle-earth, so that doesn't seem to be anything inherent to their kind so much as a downside of Middle-earth.
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The Silmarillion / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
The Silmarillion / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry: Usually given in Quenya. During his Last Stand, HÃºrin's is AurÃ« Entuluva! ("Day shall come again!"). note Compare to Aurinko on tuleva! (Sun shall come again!) in Finnish language. An Ironic Echo of the Elves' battlecry at the opening of the battle: Utulie'n aurÃ«! ("The day has come!)"
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The Silmarillion / int_7d3da681	type	The Legions of Hell
The Silmarillion / int_7d3da681	comment	The Legions of Hell: Consisting of Orcs, Trolls, Werewolves, Balrogs, and Dragons.
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The Silmarillion / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
The Silmarillion / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: Usually light is a metaphor and literal, physical tool of the forces of goodness in the world, especially the Valar, and evil creatures such as orcs cannot endure sunlight.
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The Silmarillion / int_7e676cdf	type	Engagement Challenge
The Silmarillion / int_7e676cdf	comment	Engagement Challenge: Thingol to Beren (because he promised his daugher he wouldn't just execute the guy or throw him in chains). Downplayed, since LÃºthien tries to dissuade Beren from going through with it, and when he is unable to complete it alone, she proves to be more important to the Quest than him.
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The Silmarillion / int_7e8a9164	type	Hybrid Power
The Silmarillion / int_7e8a9164	comment	Hybrid Power: The choice of the line of Beren (a Man) and LÃºthien (an Elf with Maia heredity), who alone can decide which race's fate will befall them.
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The Silmarillion / int_7e8ce096	type	Raised by Rival
The Silmarillion / int_7e8ce096	comment	Raised by Rival: The twin children Elrond and Elros are taken in by Maedhros and Maglor. During the bloodshed in their refugee settlement, their mother Elwing is driven into the sea and only saved by Divine Intervention; she had already once fled the brothers in her youth, when they attacked the Kingdom of Doriath and killed her parents. Tolkien doesn't give many details on the twins' upbringing, save that it was apparently a happy one.
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The Silmarillion / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
The Silmarillion / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: Middle-earth falls into utter darkness after Morgoth destroys the Two Trees, and remains lit only by the stars until the Valar create the Moon and Sun ages later.
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The Silmarillion / int_803e3201	type	Satanic Archetype
The Silmarillion / int_803e3201	comment	Satanic Archetype: Morgoth is quite intentionally Tolkien's version of the Christian Devil.
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The Silmarillion / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
The Silmarillion / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: Morgoth. Sauron and the Balrogs are demigods of evil.
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The Silmarillion / int_817e24b7	type	Fur Against Fang
The Silmarillion / int_817e24b7	comment	Fur Against Fang: Both vampires and werewolves work for Morgoth and Sauron, but they can not stand each other. Werewolves despise vampires, considering them "rats with wings," and vampires regard wolves like big bullies. It is more evident in the Lay of Beren and Luthien, where the meeting with Carcharoth makes clear that Carcharoth is shocked at seeing a vampire and a wolf together.
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The Silmarillion / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Silmarillion / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero: Several, though FÃ«anor and TÃºrin are perhaps the most notable.
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The Silmarillion / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Silmarillion / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: After capturing Gorlim, one of Barahir's resistant outlaws, Sauron offers to reunite him with his captive wife, Eilinel, if Gorlim betrays the whereabouts of Barahir and his men. Once Sauron obtains the information, he informs Gorlim that Eilinel is dead and he had only seen a phantom, and promptly kills him. When the people of Ulfang betray the Union of Maedhros, Morgoth "rewards" them by relocating them to Hithlum and barring the exit.
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The Silmarillion / int_8296f61d	type	King in the Mountain
The Silmarillion / int_8296f61d	comment	King in the Mountain: Turgon is considered this by non-Gondolinian elves; FinwÃ« is a literal example after his death.
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The Silmarillion / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
The Silmarillion / int_830b0ac9	comment	Maedhros and Maglor when they steal the Silmarils after the Final Battle; Maedhros is Driven to Suicide, while Maglor spends the rest of his life Walking the Earth in regret.
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The Silmarillion / int_83d2b3f2	type	Our Humans Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_83d2b3f2	comment	Our Humans Are Different: Humans and elves are very similar races, created by Illuvatar and referred to as His children. In the beginning, humans were like elves in strength and stature, but this changed later as the world aged. The most crucial difference between elves and men is that men are mortal, and elves are immortal, as well as the destinations of their souls — elves linger in the physical world as spirits if killed, while human souls depart it entirely for Illuvatar's Halls.
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The Silmarillion / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Silmarillion / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It isn't entirely clear what happens to Maglor, the only one of Feanor's sons to survive. He is kept by his oath and the judgement of the Valar from returning to Valinor. Needless to say, he is a very popular character in Fan Fiction, adventuring through the world history. In-Universe example with ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn, the grandchildren of Beren and LÃºthien, who are seized during the assault on Doriath by the servants of the Sons of FÃ«anor and left to starve in the forest: "of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath; but his search was unavailing, and of the fate of ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn no tale tells."
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The Silmarillion / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Silmarillion / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: TÃºrin chooses the title "Turambar," which means "the Conqueror of Fate." Alas, Fate conquers him
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The Silmarillion / int_87456897	type	Unholy Holy Sword
The Silmarillion / int_87456897	comment	Unholy Holy Sword: Gurthang.
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The Silmarillion / int_876d1cbb	type	Hell Invades Heaven
The Silmarillion / int_876d1cbb	comment	Hell Invades Heaven: At the outset of Morgoth's war against the Valar, when he and his army invade and destroy Almaren.
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The Silmarillion / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Silmarillion / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination Ungoliant becomes this and almost eats Morgoth. He needs a bunch of Balrogs to chase her away. You get the idea. Ungoliant also eats light, making herself huge, swollen, and more powerful, and emitting an "Unlight", which is not just darkness but a void that actively consumes light. Worse yet, nobody knows where she came from or what happened to her. She is said "to have descended from the Outer Darkness, maybe, that lies in EÃ¤ beyond the walls of the World." After breeding with lesser spiders, she just... wandered off. Morgoth himself used to be this. He is described as "a dark creature greater than a mountain with its head above the clouds, crowned with smoke and fire, and the light of his eyes drove the lesser Ainur to madness". Not to mention, he was originally more powerful than all the other Valar combined.
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The Silmarillion / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Silmarillion / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The forces of NÃºmenor. How badass were they? When Ar-PharazÃ´n the Golden showed up on Sauron's doorstep with them, Sauron surrendered immediately. And this was after he'd forged the One Ring. Granted, it was an I Surrender, Suckers gambit on his part, but he only resorted to that because he knew straight away that he didn't have a chance of defeating them on the battlefield; his own armies had checked out when they saw the NÃºmenoreans coming.
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The Silmarillion / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Silmarillion / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Happens to Morgoth more often than you'd expect, especially in the Lighter and Softer original stories (The Book of Lost Tales).
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The Silmarillion / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Silmarillion / int_8967e17f	comment	Beren (Erchamion, meaning "one-hand"), also loses a hand; it's bitten off by the greatest (were)-wolf in the history of the world. He does some stuff afterwards, but admittedly most of his physical achievements are done before that happens, or after he literally comes Back from the Dead (presumably with two hands).
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The Silmarillion / int_89838bc2	type	Land, Sea, Sky
The Silmarillion / int_89838bc2	comment	Land, Sea, Sky: The fates of the Silmarils at the end of the First Age align with this theme; one is entombed in the depths of Arda, one falls to the bottom of the ocean, and one is aloft in the heavens on EÃ¤rendil's ship.
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The Silmarillion / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Silmarillion / int_89a17726	comment	FÃ«anor really genuinely loved his father a great deal, as both mother and father (since his mother died in his childhood). And he took his great regard for his mother to absurd lengths when he made a big political stink over dialectal differences in pronouncing her name and assumed the change was a giant conspiracy to besmirch her. Lampshaded when FÃ«anor learns of his father's death: "For his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; and who among sons, of Elves or of Men, have held their fathers of greater worth?"
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The Silmarillion / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
The Silmarillion / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Tolkien simply isn't Tolkien without Con Langs. The languages came before the stories — he wrote all these tales to give the languages context and history.
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The Silmarillion / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Silmarillion / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape Glaurung to TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor. Twice at least. Morgoth to HÃºrin, nonstop, during his long imprisonment on Thangorodrim, forcing him to experience every (already horrific) second of his family's slow destruction, with the horror distorted all out of proportion to reality.
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The Silmarillion / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Silmarillion / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: InziladÃ»n and GimilkhÃ¢d.
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The Silmarillion / int_8f37b	type	Medieval Stasis
The Silmarillion / int_8f37b	comment	Medieval Stasis: From the beginning of First Age to the end of the Third, there's next to nothing in the way of technological advancement.
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The Silmarillion / int_8f628fb7	type	Forest Ranger
The Silmarillion / int_8f628fb7	comment	Forest Ranger: Ents are explicitly created to fill this role.
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The Silmarillion / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Silmarillion / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: There are four cases of marriage between cousins of varying degrees in the family tree of the elven and half-elven royalty. This could be a feature of Teleri marriage customs, as all the involved are at least partly of Teleri descent. Galadriel is the daughter of EÃ¤rwen, and granddaughter OlwÃ«, king of the Teleri. Her husband Celeborn is the grandson of Elmo (or his son, or OlwÃ«'s grandson), OlwÃ«'s brother. This makes them second cousins (or Galadriel Celeborn's first cousin once removed). Nimloth, Elmo's granddaughter (daughter Celeborn's brother Galathil if he was Elmo's grandson) marries Dior, grandson of ElwÃ«, king of Doriath and OlwÃ« and Elmo's brother. This means Nimloth is Dior's second cousin once removed. Celeborn and Galadriel's daughter Celebrian marries Dior and Nimloth's grandson Elrond. Their relations can be named in several different ways. Elrond is also Celebrian's paternal second cousin twice removed. Celebrian is the granddaughter of Finarfin and Elrond is the great-great-grandson of his brother Fingolfin. Finally, 3000 years later, Arwen marries Aragorn, her first cousin 64 times removed (descended from Elros, Elrond's twin brother). However it is mentioned that Maeglin can't marry his first cousin Idril because the Elves don't marry that close. His desire for her turns to hatred and he ends up helping Morgoth partially because they offer Idril to him.
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The Silmarillion / int_90e2b7b4	type	Theme Twin Naming
The Silmarillion / int_90e2b7b4	comment	Theme Twin Naming: ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn, Elrond and Elros. Amrod and Amras (both named Ambarussa in Quenya.)
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The Silmarillion / int_9303d6d1	type	Battle Amongst the Flames
The Silmarillion / int_9303d6d1	comment	Battle Amongst the Flames: Dagor Bragollach, "Battle of Sudden Flame", when Morgoth cast fire over Ard-galen.
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The Silmarillion / int_930a6407	type	Rewrite
The Silmarillion / int_930a6407	comment	Rewrite: Galadriel's backstory. Tolkien could never really make up his mind about what she was doing before The Lord of the Rings. Therefore, several alternative histories exist for her: What is implied in The Lord of the Rings: that she came into LÃ³rien from Beleriand before its destruction in the War of Wrath, and met and married there Celeborn, a local wood-elf. What is written in the 1977 Silmarillion: that she was there the night FÃ«anor gave his infamous speech in Tirion, joined the exile out of Valinor, crossed HelcaraxÃ« by foot, lived with Melian in Doriath and met and married there Celeborn, a local Sindar Elf. What is written in much later texts: that she met and loved Celeborn, a Teleri Elf of AlqualondÃ«, already in Valinor, that she joined the Noldorin rebellion but fought on the side of the Teleri in AlqualondÃ«, and came to Middle-earth across the Grinding Ice with her brothers. What is written in the last document on the subject: that she met and married Celeborn in Valinor, and took no part whatsoever in FÃ«anor's rebellion, but sailed into Middle-earth independently on a Telerin ship.
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The Silmarillion / int_955aba87	type	Mook Chivalry
The Silmarillion / int_955aba87	comment	Mook Chivalry: Sauron's werewolves attack Huan one at a time.
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The Silmarillion / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Silmarillion / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Noldorin High King Finarfin, in spades. His whole family (sans his daughter Galadriel) gets killed, and Finarfin (who presumably still rules the Noldor in Aman) outlives both his brothers (FÃ«anor and Fingolfin), their children and their grandchildren. He also has outlived his great-granddaughter Arwen, who chose the part of a mortal woman. HÃºrin and Morwen outlive their children TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor, as TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor kill themselves after realizing that they accidentally committed incest.
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The Silmarillion / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Silmarillion / int_970c790a	comment	Sauron (the Big Bad of The Lord of the Rings) was one of the Maiar that Melkor corrupted and turned to the path of evil.
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The Silmarillion / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Silmarillion / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Morgoth and Sauron for the entire Silmarillion. While Morgoth is the chief one, Sauron has too much influence in the story to be brushed aside.Melkor and Ungoliant, at least during the Darkening of Valinor. This lasts just as long as you can expect an alliance between two evil, utterly selfish, Omnicidal Maniacs to last. While she is subservient to Melkor at the beginning, she rebels when she wins enough power and noticed Morgoth won't fulfill his part of the deal.
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The Silmarillion / int_978b5f6d	type	Screw You, Elves!
The Silmarillion / int_978b5f6d	comment	Screw You, Elves!: The NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«ans felt this way as they became more powerful and envious of the Elves' immortality.
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The Silmarillion / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
The Silmarillion / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: FÃ«anor. He loved his mother (although most versions of the story agree that he never knew her), and clung to her memory, rejecting his stepmother Indis and her children, and eventually created a Shibboleth as political litmus test around a sound change that happened to impact her name (ÃžerindÃ« vs. the later SerindÃ«). Mispronouncing her name was Serious Business! To MÃriel's credit, she later stated she should have been present to help raise her son, but valued Indis for taking care of her family while she was in the halls of Mandos.
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The Silmarillion / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
The Silmarillion / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: Edain, prominently. The Noldor less so than the Edain but more than the other Elves.
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The Silmarillion / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
The Silmarillion / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: TÃºrin, who finally manages to get a pretty wife and a happy life for himself. Of course, being TÃºrin, he chokes on said bone not too long after.
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The Silmarillion / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Silmarillion / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette comes in because the plan spanned decades and had numerous fault points. He could have been killed before surrendering, killed after surrendering, failure to corrupt, failure to persuade, or the war ending in a truce and an alliance, though those last three would be highly unlikely because NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« was already pretty much evil by the time they invade Mordor.
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The Silmarillion / int_997ce6ad	type	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad
The Silmarillion / int_997ce6ad	comment	Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: Thingol, who not only sends away LÃºthien's suitor Beren on an impossible quest with the intention of getting around his promise not to kill him (which he only made, reluctantly, at his daughter's insistence), but also imprisons her in a treehouse when she tries to go after Beren to help him. Possibly somewhat justified, considering what happened when stuff started working out in his despite.
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The Silmarillion / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
The Silmarillion / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: TÃºrin accidentally kills Beleg and takes up Beleg's Empathic Weapon, eventually becoming known as the Mormegil, meaning Black Sword for his achievements therewith.
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The Silmarillion / int_99a7aa94	type	Seven Deadly Sins
The Silmarillion / int_99a7aa94	comment	Seven Deadly Sins: Split between Morgoth and Ungoliant. Morgoth represents Pride, Wrath, Envy, and Lust(for power). Ungoliant embodies Gluttony, Sloth, and Greed.
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The Silmarillion / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
The Silmarillion / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: This is a recurring theme in Arda — in Tolkien's Christian theology, only God can truly create anything. Those who serve God can "subcreate" within the universe if they recognize their limits as created beings, but evil is a fundamentally destructive, degenerative force and can't even subcreate anything new. Morgoth, the originator of evil, cannot make, only mock. As AulÃ« finds out with the Dwarves, even the good Valar cannot create sentient life with free will or souls, because that requires the Secret Fire that only IlÃºvatar can grant. Because AulÃ«'s intentions with the Dwarves were good, if perhaps a bit misguided, IlÃºvatar intervenes and grants the Dwarves sentience and souls. Aside from the ability to spin webs, Ungoliant. She seeks only to destroy.
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The Silmarillion / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Silmarillion / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The mountains of Ered Gorgoroth and Nan Dungortheb, the valley (of Dreadful Death) below them. Not only do the descendants of Ungoliant make this their home, but Sauron's evil magic and Melian's protective, maze-like magic get caught up in each other and combine horrifically. Beren is the only one to have gotten through both alive, and (despite all the other stuff he goes through) doing so is the one thing he can't talk about, lest it all come back.
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The Silmarillion / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Silmarillion / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of Sudden Flame, begins with Morgoth setting the entire North ablaze.
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The Silmarillion / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Silmarillion / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: AulÃ« and Yavanna are the only Valar to get a chapter all to themselves. Well, Eru and ManwÃ« show up for a bit, but since the chapter is literally called 'Of AulÃ« and Yavanna', the trope stands.
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The Silmarillion / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The Silmarillion / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Amrod and Amras, who are so much alike that their mother gave them the same name (Ambarussa).
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The Silmarillion / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: They appear to be not undead, but rather a specific class of Maia, or perhaps mutated animals. Only one is named, Thuringwethil, Sauron's messenger, and it's only mentioned that she can take the form of a bat.
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The Silmarillion / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
The Silmarillion / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: TÃºrin in regard to his mother Morwen. Mentioning that she (or his sister) may be suffering due to his choices can easily send him over the edge. And insulting the women of Dor-lÃ³min, and by extension his mother and sister, is TÃºrin's Berserk Button. FÃ«anor really genuinely loved his father a great deal, as both mother and father (since his mother died in his childhood). And he took his great regard for his mother to absurd lengths when he made a big political stink over dialectal differences in pronouncing her name and assumed the change was a giant conspiracy to besmirch her. Lampshaded when FÃ«anor learns of his father's death: "For his father was dearer to him than the Light of Valinor or the peerless works of his hands; and who among sons, of Elves or of Men, have held their fathers of greater worth?"
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The Silmarillion / int_a025d2f7	type	Physical Heaven
The Silmarillion / int_a025d2f7	comment	Physical Heaven: Valinor, the Western Blessed Realm of the Valar and Maiar. While no part of Arda can be wholly free of the corruption Morgoth forced into it, the Blessed Realm comes closest to what Eru intended Arda to be. There is no disease, no decay, no corruption or poison. Animals and plants there never age.*Questions about how such an ecosystem could function are best avoided. Everything is vastly more beautiful and lively than anything in Middle-earth. Elves there can experience a world where everything they love doesn't age and die in a minuscule fraction of their lifespan. Word of God is that mortal Men would eventually find it unpleasant, however, and living there would not end well. Thus Men are banned from Valinor itself, by orders of Eru.
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The Silmarillion / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
The Silmarillion / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: TÃºrin Turimbar, a black-haired, pale-skinned anti-hero who broods a lot and brings destruction on himself and the people he cares about.
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The Silmarillion / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
The Silmarillion / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: In the AkallabÃªth, Sauron makes it very personal for the survivors of NÃºmenor.
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The Silmarillion / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Silmarillion / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: TÃºrin after he accidentally stabs and kills Beleg, mistaking him for an Orc. Maedhros and Maglor when they steal the Silmarils after the Final Battle; Maedhros is Driven to Suicide, while Maglor spends the rest of his life Walking the Earth in regret.
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The Silmarillion / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Silmarillion / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Late in the House of Hador's Last Stand at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Huor is killed with a poisoned arrow to the eye.
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The Silmarillion / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
The Silmarillion / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid/Heinz Hybrid: EÃ¤rendil is exactly half-mortal and half-Elven. LÃºthien marries a mortal and is herself half-Elf and half-Maia; thus all her descendants are combinations of Maia, mortal, and Elf: Dior, his daughter Elwing, her brothers ElurÃ©d and ElurÃn, and her sons Elros and Elrond.
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The Silmarillion / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
The Silmarillion / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: The Edain.
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The Silmarillion / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Silmarillion / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Sauron to Celebrimbor, and later to Ar-PharazÃ´n; to an extent Maeglin to Turgon. Melkor was one to ManwÃ« for a time, but his goals then were less to try and usurp Valinor and more to convince everyone he was reformed so he could have free rein to subtly corrupt the Elves.
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The Silmarillion / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Silmarillion / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Annatar, Lord of Gifts. Anna is a Finnish female name that may or may not come from the word "antaa" (to give, or "Anna!" for an imperative). The suffix "-tar" is the androgynous "Lord/Lady of-". And as a bonus it's Sauron masquerading as a beautiful man.
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The Silmarillion / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
The Silmarillion / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: The Valar are the equivalent of Christian archangels, but their narrative place in the story is more like that of deities.
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The Silmarillion / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
The Silmarillion / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Several examples. The black swords Gurthang and Anguirel are especially cool, being made of meteoric metal.
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The Silmarillion / int_a675997a	type	Scaled Up
The Silmarillion / int_a675997a	comment	Scaled Up: Sauron, in his battle against LÃºthien and Huan, at one point takes a giant serpent (dragon?) shape.
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The Silmarillion / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
The Silmarillion / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Having been captured by Morgoth, Maedhros, the eldest son of FÃ«anor, is rescued from his torment on Thangorodrim by having his right hand cut off. Once he gets healed up, he becomes an even more badass swordfighter with his left hand, such that when Orcs had to face him in battle they would flee in terror (of course, this probably had to do with the fact that Maedhros was a Badass who had made it Out of the Inferno). Beren (Erchamion, meaning "one-hand"), also loses a hand; it's bitten off by the greatest (were)-wolf in the history of the world. He does some stuff afterwards, but admittedly most of his physical achievements are done before that happens, or after he literally comes Back from the Dead (presumably with two hands). Morgoth himself receives a limp in his foot, permanent scars across his face, and permanent burns to his hands, on top of his overall weakening. On the other hand, he grows more and more into his Orcus on His Throne status as he accumulates injuries.
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The Silmarillion / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
The Silmarillion / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: In the end, Maedhros and Maglor are finally able to succeed at getting the Silmarils. The only problem is that they've done so many terrible things along the way that the Silmarils burn them at the touch, which leads to Maedhros throwing one Silmaril, and himself, into a volcano and Maglor to throw the other Silmaril into the ocean.
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The Silmarillion / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Silmarillion / int_a8a04f6f	comment	Morgoth to HÃºrin, nonstop, during his long imprisonment on Thangorodrim, forcing him to experience every (already horrific) second of his family's slow destruction, with the horror distorted all out of proportion to reality.
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The Silmarillion / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Silmarillion / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight Beren and LÃºthien, Because Destiny Says So. LÃºthien's parents Elu Thingol and Melian the Maia, such that they spend years locked in each other's gaze as the trees grow taller around them.
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The Silmarillion / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
The Silmarillion / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: Gondolin, and to a lesser extent Doriath and Nargothrond (all three are hidden by the power of the Maia Melian or the Vala Ulmo, and virtually no outsiders are allowed into Nargothrond or especially Gondolin).
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The Silmarillion / int_a9eb984b	type	Warrior Poet
The Silmarillion / int_a9eb984b	comment	Warrior Poet: Many Elves, including Finrod Felagund.
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The Silmarillion / int_aa7dc8ce	type	Luke Nounverber
The Silmarillion / int_aa7dc8ce	comment	Luke Nounverber: Finrod Felagund (Cave-Hewer)
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The Silmarillion / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
The Silmarillion / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: Yeah, about that massive cast mentioned at the top of the page? The vast majority of them meet their doom at various points during the First Age. note For example: in the published Silmarillion FinwÃ« 's line consists of him, his two wives, his three sons, fifteen grandchildren and eventually five great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren and two great-great-great grandchildren. By the end of the First Age (and discounting CelebrÃan, who wasn't born until the Second Age) out of a family of thirty people only Indis, Finarfin, Maglor, Galadriel, Celebrimbor, Idril, Gil-Galad, EÃ¤rendil, Elrond and Elros are still alive. Plus Maglor goes into exile and is never seen again, Elros chooses the fate of Men and eventually gives up his life (albeit after living for a fairly tidy 500 years) and Celebrimbor and Gil-Galad are killed by Sauron in the Second Age. There's also the destruction of NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« at the end of the Second Age.
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The Silmarillion / int_aba972fb	type	Aggressive Negotiations
The Silmarillion / int_aba972fb	comment	Aggressive Negotiations: After FÃ«anor's death, his son Maedhros receives envoys from Morgoth offering a truce and the return of a Silmaril. Both sides try to use this trope: Maedhros brings a large party to the appointed place, but "Morgoth sent the more and there were Balrogs" and so overpowered him.
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The Silmarillion / int_abe1e24e	type	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil
The Silmarillion / int_abe1e24e	comment	Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: It is said that the Valar don't understand Morgoth's evil, and explicitly don't understand it's incurable. In the AkallabÃªth, ManwÃ« learns the hard way that Edain often take benefits for granted and feel entitled to more.
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The Silmarillion / int_abf4c466	type	The Paragon Always Rebels
The Silmarillion / int_abf4c466	comment	The Paragon Always Rebels: First Melkor and Sauron, then FÃ«anor, then the NÃºmenÃ³reans and, finally, Saruman. Each was the greatest created member of their species in power and potential, but it went to their heads in bad ways.
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The Silmarillion / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Silmarillion / int_ad1db87c	comment	It's implied Werewolves can talk, as Draugluin says to Sauron "Huan is there!", and Carcharoth has no trouble talking to Beren and LÃºthien (though, granted, they were shapeshifted at the time in wolf and vampire forms, respectively).
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The Silmarillion / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
The Silmarillion / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: Enforced by Morgoth's injuries and resulting Shapeshifter Mode Lock, setting things up for the Watchful Peace. This is especially notable during the periods between the third and fourth battles. There's also the fact that he has weakened himself from spreading his power out into all his Orcs and other servants, who are motivated by his will. The History of Middle-earth goes into more detail and explains that the Ainur were shocked to find Morgoth a weak shadow of his former self once they had defeated his armies.
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The Silmarillion / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Silmarillion / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: A core topic of Tolkien's works is the futility of evil, and how evil leads nowhere. All those who choose evil never get what they want, and end up a shell of their former selves. At the very best, they will get a mockery or a twisted corruption of their original desire, while still being miserable. The only thing evil manages to do is to make everything worse for everyone. Melkor wanted to create, but in his pride he tried to take over the matter, and end up losing his power, might, intelligence, sanity and light. And he only manages to corrupt the matter, but never to take over it, or create, his true goal. Sauron tried to bring order to the world, and only managed to make everything worse, and ended up like his master. Feanor and his sons slaughtered countless innocents in their quest to retake the Silmarils, only to find out once they've finally reclaimed them after hundreds of years of war and suffering that the jewels will not suffer their hands dirtied by their numerous crimes.
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The Silmarillion / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Silmarillion / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn Maeglin is remembered as the only Elf who, (admittedly after torture), actually turned traitor and served Morgoth. FÃ«anor begins as the greatest of the Eldar, but Morgoth (whom he hates) manipulates him until he becomes paranoid, jealous, cruel, and eventually rebels against the Valar and starts killing other Elves. And Sauron becomes the second Dark Lord because he believes he could help reconstruct Middle-earth, Morgoth becomes the first because he believed he could improve the original plan for the world, and so on. Tolkien deconstructed Utopia Justifies the Means pretty thoroughly. FÃ«anor's sons all turn against good, and commit some of the worst systematic slaughters against groups of Elves who opposed them. This leads to all their deaths except for Maglor. While no less guilty than the others, only Maglor eventually relents, and only after he realizes the futility of their cause. But after something like that, You Can't Go Home Again. Happens to NÃºmenor as a country in AkallabÃªth. The resentment of most of the population against the immortality of the Elves and the Ban of the Valar preventing them from visiting the Blessed Realm causes them to gradually fall from friends and helpers of the Men of Middle-earth against the depredations of Sauron, to harsh rulers demanding tribute and resources, to finally slavers and warmongers worshipping darkness via human sacrifices. Those among the NÃºmenoreans who still tried to follow the commands of the Valar and keep friendship with the Elves were outnumbered and essentially powerless to stop any of it, and near the end many of them were burning on the altars beside the slaves.
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The Silmarillion / int_afebbd7	type	And Man Grew Proud
The Silmarillion / int_afebbd7	comment	And Man Grew Proud: Ar-PharazÃ´n grew very proud, and NÃºmenor was erased from the Earth in turn.
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The Silmarillion / int_affcdc91	type	Evil Is Sterile
The Silmarillion / int_affcdc91	comment	Evil Is Sterile: Basically Morgoth's schtick. Technically only Eru can create new things; the Valar can only modify what exists toward their own inclinations. All the misfortune stems from Melkor's vain attempts to subvert the inherent nature of the world toward his own way of thinking.
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The Silmarillion / int_b070362d	type	Wicked Stepmother
The Silmarillion / int_b070362d	comment	Wicked Stepmother: Inverted with Indis and FÃ«anor. After death of his first wife Miriel, FinwÃ« marries Indis. Indis attempts to be as good stepmother to Miriel's son FÃ«anor as she can, but FÃ«anor cannot accept her, and he hates the sons of Indis, Fingolfin and Finarfin.
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The Silmarillion / int_b0cac376	type	The Usurper
The Silmarillion / int_b0cac376	comment	Ar-Pharazon from the Akallabeth is the nephew of the King of Numenor, Tar-Palantir. When the king dies, Ar-Pharazon forces the king's daughter to marry him, considered an act of great evil, and usurps the throne of Numenor. When Sauron declares himself King of Men, Ar-Pharazon takes it as a challenge to his ego and resolves to make Sauron serve him, which backfires when Sauron charms his way into Ar-Pharazon's council, persuading Ar-Pharazon to worship Morgoth and instituting a Religion of Evil which practices Human Sacrifice. Sauron eventually persuades Ar-Pharazon to take Valinor, the land of the Gods, by force, and Ar-Pharazon's choice to lay claim to Valinor dooms Numenor when Eru separates Valinor from the rest of the world and causes Numenor to be lost beneath the waves. While the rest of Numenor is mourned for its loss of a golden age, Ar-Pharazon is not, and he is condemned to linger in the world until the end of time.
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The Silmarillion / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Silmarillion / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Ar-PharazÃ´n, the last king of NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«, and his army are ghosts buried forever under a landslide just outside Valinor, unable to rest in peace or leave the world, though Men's souls are designed to leave and remaining forever eventually becomes unbearable torment. One wonders if he'll have learned his lesson about immortality by the time the world ends.
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The Silmarillion / int_b15b6a35	type	Cosmic Plaything
The Silmarillion / int_b15b6a35	comment	TÃºrin, yet again. Yeah, his life sucked that bad. There's a reason for it, too. First, the Doom of the Noldor hit his bloodline pretty hard for various reasons. And then Morgoth just went ahead and added his own curse on top of that. There was pretty much no way it was going to end well, not that TÃºrin knew it at the time.
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The Silmarillion / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
The Silmarillion / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: "Morgoth" means "The Dark Enemy of the World." He started out "merely" wanting to replace God as the ruler of the universe. Since that turned out to be impossible (like, duh) he decided to just enslave everybody and force them to worship him. Eventually, he became so enraged that anything at all dared to exist without being his exclusive creation, that he just wanted to destroy the universe, utterly, forever. Torturing people to death along the way helped pass the time, though.
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The Silmarillion / int_b1720bc6	type	Divine Conflict
The Silmarillion / int_b1720bc6	comment	The very first war happened during the physical creation of Arda. All we're told is that Melkor assumed a great and terrible shape, described as "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." He and the Valar clashed over and over again as he sabotaged the world; they built mountains and Melkor threw them down, they dug valleys and he filled them up, they filled oceans and he spilled them over. Back in those days, Melkor was the strongest thing in the universe save IlÃºvatar himself so none of the Valar could stop him. This stalemate continued until Tulkas came down and finally managed to defeat him, forcing Melkor to flee and allowing Arda to be finished.
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The Silmarillion / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
The Silmarillion / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayflyâ€“December Romance: Averted with Beren and LÃºthien (and they worked hard to avert it.) Somewhat subverted with Aegnor (an elf) and Andreth (a Mannish woman): he fears that she will grow old while he doesn't, or (quite rightly) that he will die in battle before she does. They never marry.
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The Silmarillion / int_b288a349	type	White Magician Girl
The Silmarillion / int_b288a349	comment	White Magician Girl: LÃºthien is an early example.
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The Silmarillion / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
The Silmarillion / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«, until Queen AncalimÃ«. Implied amongst the Elves as well. Turgon was noted for a "lack of an heir" by Maeglin, despite the existence of Idril, Turgon's daughter.
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The Silmarillion / int_b349a835	type	Soiled City on a Hill
The Silmarillion / int_b349a835	comment	Soiled City on a Hill: NÃºmenor.
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The Silmarillion / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
The Silmarillion / int_b4c406a6	comment	Carcharoth. A wolf bred by Morgoth specifically to counter Huan, Carcharoth directly killed both Beren and Huan, and indirectly caused LÃºthien's death shortly thereafter.
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The Silmarillion / int_b5171e10	type	Tragic Villain
The Silmarillion / int_b5171e10	comment	Tragic Villain: FÃ«anor isn't the most sympathetic character, anyway. His two oldest sons, Maedhros and Maglor, are more sympathetic and probably more tragic, given that one is Driven to Suicide twice and the other spends the rest of his (immortal) life wandering along the seashore in constant pain, singing laments. Especially because by the end of six hundred years of warfare, destroying three elven societies, and the deaths of their four younger brothers in attempts to fulfill their Oath, they sincerely wanted to stop killing people and were largely just going through with the Oath because they thought they had no choice to break it. Ar-PharazÃ´n is a subversion — his storyline is certainly that of classic tragedy, but the reader has no sympathy at all for him, seeing as the guy was an incestuous, megalomanic Jerkass even before he met Sauron.
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The Silmarillion / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Silmarillion / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In-Universe, posthumously. FÃ«anor famously asked Galadriel three times for a strand of her hair, and she denied him every time. Come Lord of the Rings, and Gimli makes the same request. She proceeds to give him three strands.
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The Silmarillion / int_b7227261	type	Shocking Defeat Legacy
The Silmarillion / int_b7227261	comment	Shocking Defeat Legacy: The Battle Of Unnumbered Tears. It begins as a noble effort of the Elves, Men, and Dwarves to finish Morgoth once and for all. It's the first coalition of all the races together to fight Morgoth, and the greatest army seen so far in the world outside of the gods. It gets crushed so badly and so many people die that Morgoth literally makes a hill out of the corpses. The worst part is that they probably never had a chance. And things get so much worse from there. From the other side, Beren and LÃºthien defeating Sauron and actually reclaiming a Silmaril is one for Morgoth. He loses his top man and one of the jewels. Their actions also give hope to the people of Middle-earth that Morgoth could be defeated, which is particularly needed after the utter ruin of the Battle of the Sudden Flame. Unfortunately, this hope was one of the things that led to the Battle of Unnumbered Tears...
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The Silmarillion / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
The Silmarillion / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: FÃ«anor is a genius jeweler, smith, metallurgist, linguist, orator, and more.
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The Silmarillion / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
The Silmarillion / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Maedhros, when he thinks that Fingon will be unable to rescue him. He does, however, manage it later on.
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The Silmarillion / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Silmarillion / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: FÃ«anor and his seven sons.
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The Silmarillion / int_b7e1dcc8	type	Empathic Weapon
The Silmarillion / int_b7e1dcc8	comment	Empathic Weapon: Anglachel, later renamed Gurthang (Iron of Death) by TÃºrin. It blunts and "mourns" the death of its former wielder, Beleg and eventually answers TÃºrin's request for death by saying that it will "drink [his] blood gladly".
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The Silmarillion / int_b82c2930	type	World Sundering
The Silmarillion / int_b82c2930	comment	World Sundering: This happens three times — once when Morgoth sinks Almaren, once when the Valar's war tears apart Beleriand, and once when NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« is flooded by the Sea and Eru bends the whole world around from a flat pan to a round sphere.
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The Silmarillion / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
The Silmarillion / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: FÃ«anor and his followers who leave Valinor with him.
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The Silmarillion / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
The Silmarillion / int_b8dde2	comment	Morgoth (dark enemy), though this is because that's what he was. His real name was Melkor, but he was known only as Morgoth after his evil nature was revealed.
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The Silmarillion / int_b8e38fc5	type	Metaphorically True
The Silmarillion / int_b8e38fc5	comment	Metaphorically True: The final chapter says, regarding the One Ring, that Frodo took it to Mt. Doom and destroyed it. This appears to be what the rest of Middle-earth believes happened, though the readers know it's not exactly the truth.
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The Silmarillion / int_b9e0dbc3	type	Benevolent Dictator
The Silmarillion / int_b9e0dbc3	comment	Benevolent Dictator: Downplayed. The people of Brethil actually prefer Turin's way of leadership to their former king, but he accidentally took over the land.
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The Silmarillion / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
The Silmarillion / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The Valarian siege of Utumno. They won, but at a very high cost. (What the cost was is not known, since there were no people present who couldn't simply reincarnate back in Mandos' halls.)
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The Silmarillion / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
The Silmarillion / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Three of the Sons of FÃ«anor — Maedhros, Amrod, and Amras — are fiery redheads. All seven Sons of FÃ«anor are fierce, rash, and violent, of course. But not their mother Nerdanel, who is much more cool-headed.*While it's actually never outright said, many fans assume she's a redhead, too. This has become such an integral part of the Silmarillion Fanon most people don't even realize its unconfirmed status. Maedhros is possibly the fiercest of the Seven, though not the nastiest, but the twins don't get much characterization.note Well, his fate as originally envisioned by Tolkien: accidentally burned to death on the Telerin ships at Losgar. This does not show up in the published Silmarillion, where he dies in battle together with his brother at the Mouths of Sirion.
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The Silmarillion / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
The Silmarillion / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: Most of the protagonists are from the various noble houses, whose lines are followed over several generations. Heck, TÃºrin and NiÃ«nor even have an incestuous relationship to take it a bit further.
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The Silmarillion / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Silmarillion / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: FÃ«anor and his sons ultimately turn into this.
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The Silmarillion / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Silmarillion / int_bc74ef27	comment	TÃºrin in regard to his mother Morwen. Mentioning that she (or his sister) may be suffering due to his choices can easily send him over the edge. And insulting the women of Dor-lÃ³min, and by extension his mother and sister, is TÃºrin's Berserk Button.
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The Silmarillion / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
The Silmarillion / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The implied fate of the souls of Men, even though Tolkien never goes into the specifics of what Eru plans for them.
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The Silmarillion / int_bd6b86df	type	Impossible Task
The Silmarillion / int_bd6b86df	comment	Beren: Given an Impossible Task by his father-in-law and reacts with "You want me to go to Hell and steal a jewel from Morgoth's crown? Is that really all you want for your daughter's hand? Pfft." Proceeds to go do what is basically the Nintendo Hard version of Frodo's quest and succeeds.
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The Silmarillion / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Silmarillion / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Did FÃ«anor just slam the door in the face of the most powerful being in Arda?
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The Silmarillion / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Silmarillion / int_beb9a361	comment	TÃºrin Turambar, a badass Anti-Hero Doom Magnet who was armed with a black sword and armor. He also had black hair and pale skin.
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The Silmarillion / int_c0091e94	type	Dragon Hoard
The Silmarillion / int_c0091e94	comment	Dragon Hoard: After Glaurung has destroyed Nargothrond, he sweeps all the gold together into a heap and lies down on it to rest for a while.
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The Silmarillion / int_c0f7ded3	type	Mortality Ensues
The Silmarillion / int_c0f7ded3	comment	Morgoth himself receives a limp in his foot, permanent scars across his face, and permanent burns to his hands, on top of his overall weakening. On the other hand, he grows more and more into his Orcus on His Throne status as he accumulates injuries.
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The Silmarillion / int_c0f87dda	type	Humans Are Warriors
The Silmarillion / int_c0f87dda	comment	Humans Are Warriors: An almost straight version of this trope. When Elves first meet Men, they are refugees from Morgoth's land where they had to fight to survive against everything in the region. Elves, on noticing how tough Men are and how quickly they breed, are glad to have them as allies, and give them land in a treaty. Though a variation is that Elves do not consider Men better warriors than Elves or Dwarves for that matter. They just consider Men tough enough and better breeders, thus increasing the depleted supply of reserves. It is possible for Men to be physically stronger than Elves, though. TÃºrin, when he is ambushed by Saeros, is described as "stronger than any Elf." Elves usually have the advantages of experience, endurance, and occasionally magic (in the case of Elves like Finrod Felagund or LÃºthien), rather than pure strength.
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The Silmarillion / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
The Silmarillion / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice Mean And In Between: The three sons of FinwÃ«. Finarfin (nice) is the "fairest and wisest" son who attempts to dissuade the Noldor from rebelling against the Valar, FÃ«anor (mean) is consumed by pride and revenge and causes a huge amount of suffering in his and his sons' pursuit of it, and Fingolfin (in-between) is prideful to a lesser extent than FÃ«anor and with nobler intentions. The seven sons of FÃ«anor also fall into these three categories. The M-brothers (Maedhros and Maglor) are the nice ones, being the closest to repenting of their evil, and the most heroic when not being compelled by the evil Oath of their father. The C-brothers (Celegorm, Caranthir and Curufin) are the mean ones, being hot-blooded Jerkasses who, in addition to following the Oath, became outright antagonists to the more heroic characters, although Caranthir attains some measure of redemption later on. The A-twins (Amrod and Amras) are in-between, with less of their character-defining traits spelled out other than that they are close to each other and follow the Oath along with their brothers.
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The Silmarillion / int_c2145582	type	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle
The Silmarillion / int_c2145582	comment	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle: While typically referred to by the title of its longest segment, the book's full title describes its complete contents: Quenta Silmarillion (The History of the Silmarils), together with AinulindalÃ« (The Music of the Ainur) and Valaquenta (Account of the Valar), To which is appended AkallabÃªth (The Downfall of NÃºmenor) and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.
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The Silmarillion / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Silmarillion / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: When the nearly whole population of Nargothrond turned on Finrod, ten elves refused to abandon him. They accompanied him and Beren in the Quest of Silmaril, even though it was a suicidal mission. Eventually they got captured, jailed and tortured by Sauron but they would not turn on Finrod. When Sauron threatened each one of them with being fed to a wolf, all of them chose becoming wolf's morsel rather betraying their king.
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The Silmarillion / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Silmarillion / int_c32ff031	comment	Now for the Xanatos Gambit: The whole time, Sauron's ultimate goal was to destroy NÃºmenÃ³rÃ« by pitting Ar-PharazÃ´n against the Valar — whichever one comes out on top, he's down one dangerous enemy and severely weakened the other. Everything had a purpose — the human sacrifices removed all NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«ans faithful to the Valar, and even the huge Temple was built as a "shelter" in case the Valar attacked. It almost works perfectly, and the "almost" is only there because Sauron had no way of forseeing that God would step in and get involved.
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The Silmarillion / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Silmarillion / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: Most dragons but Ancalagon is an absolute terror of this size.
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The Silmarillion / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Silmarillion / int_c3bafbce	comment	Fingolfin: Fought Morgoth — the story's version of Satan — in personal combat, and actually managed to hurt him.
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The Silmarillion / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Silmarillion / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A couple of elongated ones. After Ungoliant kills the Two Trees, Yavanna says that she might be able to use the light trapped in the Silmarils to revive them before the last life in their roots fails. But Feanor refuses to allow his greatest work to be destroyed even to restore the Trees and it turns out that Morgoth has stolen the Silmarils anyway. During the First Age, the Elves score a glorious victory over Morgoth's forces in the Dagor Aglareb and set up the Siege of Angband, and for a time it seems that they might be able to keep him at bay indefinitely. Sadly, a few hundred years later, the next two battles (Dagor Bragollach and NÃrnaeth Arnoediad) result in the Siege being broken, the tables being turned, and the Elven kingdoms falling one by one, ensuring that Morgoth's conquest of Beleriand could not be stopped except by the belated intervention of the Valar and their forces in the costly War of Wrath (in which Beleriand itself was destroyed). King Tar-Palantir represents one for NÃºmenor. He tries to atone for the evils committed by his predecessors, rekindle ties with the elves and offer repentance to the Valar, and divert NÃºmenor from its path to catastrophe, and his daughter and rightful successor Tar-MÃriel looks set to continue in her father's ways. Sadly, the Valar do not hear him, he fails to win over the people during his reign, and after his death, his evil nephew seizes the sceptre by forcing Tar-MÃriel into marriage, ensuring the inevitability of NÃºmenor's destruction.
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The Silmarillion / int_c413cc5f	type	Jacob and Esau
The Silmarillion / int_c413cc5f	comment	Jacob and Esau: InziladÃ»n and GimilkhÃ¢d (two of the princes of NÃºmenor).
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The Silmarillion / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The Silmarillion / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Mostly played straight with Elves, except when FÃ«anor and his sons are around. They aren't called Kinslayers for nothing! FÃ«anor threatens his half-brother with murder in cold blood, then starts the first Elf-on-Elf war and slaughters the people of AlqualondÃ«. His sons and their followers go on to slaughter the people of Doriath and the Havens of Sirion.
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The Silmarillion / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Silmarillion / int_c5249b29	comment	Finrod Felagund, Galadriel's brother and the King of Nargothrond, saves his friend Beren from a werewolf by breaking free of his bonds and killing it with his bare hands and teeth, and the two kill each other. This act of nobility allowed him to be reincarnated in Valinor, the first elf to do so before the First Age.
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The Silmarillion / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Silmarillion / int_c66cb5a9	comment	The last NÃºmenÃ³rean king, Ar-PharazÃ´n, who forces his cousin to marry him so he can usurp her throne, happily embraces Morgoth-worship and Human Sacrifice, persecutes the last "faithful" NÃºmenÃ³reans and the natives of Middle-earth to supply said sacrifices, and finally decides to invade Valinor.
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The Silmarillion / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
The Silmarillion / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: The Elves actually did win some battles against Morgoth in the beginnings of the war. Fingolfin manages to hurt Morgoth several times before being crushed.
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The Silmarillion / int_c7575bab	type	ElvesVsDwarves
The Silmarillion / int_c7575bab	comment	Elves vs. Dwarves: Naturally. But not without reason: The Elves and Dwarves near the west coast of Middle-earth are originally allies and trade partners. The problem doesn't start until the Dwarves of Nogrod fall in love with a necklace that they'd customized for King Thingol to hold the Silmaril, refuse to give it up, and murder the Elf-king. The Elves kill all the Dwarves, but then the army of Nogrod retaliates by sacking the Elven kingdom. And Beren and some woodland Elves finish them off, then leave with said necklace.The Silmarillion shows that the conflict between Elves and Dwarves is actually anything but natural: They do have things in common (a love of craftsmanship for instance) and, though not particularly friendly to each other, are willing to work and fight together at the beginning; it's only because of historical events that they become enemies, and the feud only affects the Eldar (western Elves) and the Dwarves of the western mansions. According to The War of the Jewels, the Avarin Dark Elves were actually frequently friends and allies of the Dwarves out east. And in the Second Age the Noldor of Eregion got along pretty well with Dwarves of Khazad-dÃ»m.In a meta sense, the account of Thingol's death is also notable for being an invention by Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay, going beyond simply editing and patching texts together. Christopher admitted in The History of Middle-earth series that they decided to basically write it from scratch since his father never actually wrote it in detail besides a long-outdated version when his universe was in its first stages and full of Early-Installment Weirdness (published as The Book of Lost Tales).
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The Silmarillion / int_c8146c52	type	Synthetic Plague
The Silmarillion / int_c8146c52	comment	Synthetic Plague: A plague from Angband, almost certainly engineered by Morgoth, strikes Hithlum at one point killing many, including TÃºrin Turambar's younger sister, Lalaith.
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The Silmarillion / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
The Silmarillion / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: Maedhros seeks to create this after the Dagor Bragollach, combining the forces of the Noldor, the Edain, the Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost, and Easterlings, into what is called the Union of Maedhros. He plans to bring all of their forces together to besiege Angband and destroy it. Unfortunately, he isn't careful enough about hiding his plans from Morgoth. Then the people of the Easterling chieftain Ulfang bring the plan crashing down when they betray the others during the joint assault against Morgoth's armies, resulting in the battle called NÃrnaeth Arnoediad ("Tears Unnumbered").
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The Silmarillion / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
The Silmarillion / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady Haleth was a chieftainess of a Mannish tribe and a very fearsome one. Emeldir, Barahir's wife and the mother of Beren, was called "Man-Hearted", because she preferred to fight alongside her husband and son when Orcs came raiding. After the Dagor Bragollach, the land was being overrun by the enemy so she gathered together all the women and children that still remained and led them out of Dorthonion to Brethil. Beren, Barahir, and their ten companions stayed behind because they refused to abandon the land to Morgoth. Morwen, who is generally depicted as proud, somewhat cold and iron-willed, especially after her husband HÃºrin is taken captive by Morgoth and their land is conquered by Easterlings. Later, she also disregards the advice of Thingol and Melian.
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The Silmarillion / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
The Silmarillion / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: The Ainur (and LÃºthien, who is the daughter of an Ainu) use song in their "magic." Finrod Felagund also uses "music" to create "supernatural" effects, even in a duel against Sauron. This is Fridge Brilliance when you remember that this is also how the Ainur (sub)-created the universe. LÃºthien's song after Beren's death is so beautifully melancholic that it moves the Vala Mandos â€” Tolkien's Hades â€” to pity for the first and only time ever.
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The Silmarillion / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Silmarillion / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Played straight with EÃ¤rendil and subverted with FÃ«anor.
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The Silmarillion / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Silmarillion / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Numerous examples between the Elves and their enemies, but especially when Glorfindel and Ecthelion fight Balrogs during the Siege of Gondolin. They actually manage to take them down, but die themselves.
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The Silmarillion / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
The Silmarillion / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Brandir, called "the Lame," because of a crippling childhood injury. He is shown in stark contrast to the martial and Hot-Blooded TÃºrin.
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The Silmarillion / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Silmarillion / int_cc4b45f6	comment	A still more obscure question is, what happens to dead Orcs? The Silmarillion suggests (without confirming) that Orcs were bred from Elves who were tortured and corrupted, and a throwaway line in The Lord of the Rings suggests that two of the Orc characters might remember the First Age, which at that point was a good six thousand years ago: the Orcs may be as long-lived as the Elves, though Tolkien elsewhere contradicted that. Maybe their souls go to the same place as those of Elves (where presumably they wait for the end of the world). Tolkien never quite figured out the question of Orc souls: everything in the legendarium suggests that Orcs are creatures of pure evil but he was never happy with what that might imply.
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The Silmarillion / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
The Silmarillion / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? Did Fingolfin just stab Morgoth? Did TÃºrin Turambar just kill Glaurung? Is he prophesied to kill Morgoth? Did EÃ¤rendil just slay Ancalagon the Black? Did he slay Ungoliant, who almost ate Morgoth?
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The Silmarillion / int_ccc0d531	type	Settling the Frontier
The Silmarillion / int_ccc0d531	comment	Settling the Frontier: The three tribes of the Edain flee from Eriador, where most of Men have been corrupted into wickedness by Morgoth, cross the western Blue Mountains and arrive in Beleriand. The BÃ«orians settle in the forested northern mountains of Dorthonion and become of lords of Ladros, the folk of Marach emigrate the mountains of Hitlum after swearing fealty to the High-Elven House of Fingolfin, and the House of Haleth end settling in the Forest of Brethil after a very long and turbulent migration. After the War of the Wrath, the Edain (Men of West) set sail towards the country-sized, star-shaped, virgin island of Elenna, created for them by the Valar, who wanted to reward them for fighting Morgoth alongside them. There, the Edain build their first cities and found NÃºmenor, the greatest Mannish civilization.
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The Silmarillion / int_ce6487aa	type	Misery Builds Character
The Silmarillion / int_ce6487aa	comment	Misery Builds Character: Mostly averted, the constant misery and suffering the characters suffer just pisses them off and leads them to despair, which leads to more misery. Played straight twice however: After being abandoned by FÃ«anor, Fingolfin and his people are forced to take the long and hard way to Middle-earth "but their valor and endurance grew with hardship; for they were a mighty people." Tuor is the only character to emerge from his Trauma Conga Line a better person.
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The Silmarillion / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Silmarillion / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: TÃºrin attempts to overpower the curse laid against him by Morgoth through sheer willpower, even going so far as to give himself the name Turambar, "Master of Fate." Unfortunately, it really doesn't work out that well for him.
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The Silmarillion / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
The Silmarillion / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Gothmog and Sauron, and later Glaurung, were all Dragons to Morgoth (literally, in one case).
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The Silmarillion / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
The Silmarillion / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: FÃ«anor, and later Fingolfin, both vs. Morgoth. Fingolfin has more success, but it gets them both killed.
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The Silmarillion / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
The Silmarillion / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: Eru's plans for the world are perfect until Morgoth begins to ruin it. Except that it is entirely possible that Eru always intended for things to happen that way. He explains after the Music of the Ainur, which Melkor attempted to corrupt, that noone can play anything that does not come from him. The various references strongly suggest that Men, and possibly Dwarves, have true free will, and the ability to create truly new things of their own, but the Ainur and the Elves do not.
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The Silmarillion / int_d13d59a9	type	Decisive Battle
The Silmarillion / int_d13d59a9	comment	Decisive Battle: Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of the Sudden Flame. For 400 years, the Noldor had confined Morgoth and his forces in a prolonged siege of Angband, though they lacked the strength to finish the war. Morgoth spent this time building up his forces including breeding his newest superweapon, the first dragon Glaurung, then unleashed them onto the Noldor in a surprise attack accompanied by rivers of fire. The siege was broken with the Noldor's defeat and while they managed to live to fight another day, they spent the rest of the war losing ground to Morgoth, ending with their complete defeat in the NÃrnaeth Arnoediad.
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The Silmarillion / int_d155515c	type	Thunderbolt Iron
The Silmarillion / int_d155515c	comment	Thunderbolt Iron: Anglachel and Anguirel.
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The Silmarillion / int_d19dc823	type	The Gods Must Be Lazy
The Silmarillion / int_d19dc823	comment	The Gods Must Be Lazy: This appears to be the case — the Valar let the Noldor go to Middle-earth to fight Morgoth while they sit back at Valinor. But the combined might of the Valar can destroy whole landmasses and kill untold numbers of people in the attempt to save anyone. Meanwhile, the Noldor rebel and leave paradise of their own free will, and forfeit all right to help. Nonetheless, ManwÃ« sends his Eagles to provide help in extreme circumstances, and Ulmo takes an almost-direct hand in helping the Noldor — it's just that Ulmo's attempts are almost entirely ruined by the foolishness of Elves and Men. And sure, the Valar are very powerful — but for a long time, Morgoth is a match for all of them put together. Even when the Valar finally do strike, at a carefully selected time when Morgoth has been greatly weakened and they can defeat him, the cataclysmic battle still destroys a subcontinent.
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The Silmarillion / int_d250df04	type	Creation Myth
The Silmarillion / int_d250df04	comment	Creation Myth: Arda was planned by Eru through the Great Music, sung by the angelic choirs of the Ainur, corrupted by Melkor-Morgoth, and finally brought into physical existence as a "blank slate" for the Valar and Maiar to shape in accordance with the Music.
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The Silmarillion / int_d2ce1cbd	type	Reasoning with God
The Silmarillion / int_d2ce1cbd	comment	Reasoning with God: Following the Noldor's defeat in the NÃrnaeth Arnoediad, things get so bad in Beleriand with Morgoth now ruling it uncontested that the only thing the people of Middle Earth can do is plead the Valar for salvation. Fortunately, the Valar are moved with compassion when EÃ¤rendil arrives in Valinor and makes his plea on behalf of those still in Middle Earth, sparking the War of Wrath and Morgoth's second, final defeat.
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The Silmarillion / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Silmarillion / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The first sign that Feanor's oath for the Silmarils is going to go terribly wrong? The Silmarils can only be touched safely by those with Incorruptible Pure Pureness, yet part of the oath itself is that anyone who isn't one of Feanor's bloodline calls down their wrath and bloodshed. Yeah... safe to say going into a frenzied bloodlust over anyone who isn't family holding on to one of them isn't going to keep you on the Incorruptible Pure Pureness side for long. Hence why Maehdros and Maglor can't hold them even when they repent.
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The Silmarillion / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
The Silmarillion / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Dagor Dagorath, the "Battle of Battles" prophesied for the end of time.
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The Silmarillion / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: The origins of dragons in Middle-earth is revealed as reptile-like servants of Morgoth, possibly demonic spirits (Maia or not) incarnated in physical bodies. There are cold-drakes (probably with no wings or fire breath); UrulÃ³ki, fire-drakes, wingless dragons with fiery breath like Glaurung the Golden, also one of Morgoth's Dragons in the trope sense; and finally, during the final battle at Angband, winged fire-drakes surprise the Valar's host and almost overcome them until EÃ¤rendil has his Big Damn Heroes moment in his Cool Flying Ship. Two aspects of Tolkien's dragons that don't show up much in other works are their poisonous blood, and that they stink terribly.
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The Silmarillion / int_d8e1b5a3	type	Soul Jar
The Silmarillion / int_d8e1b5a3	comment	The tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth was entitled Morgoth's Ring, referencing a quote stating that just as the One Ring was Sauron's Soul Jar, since Morgoth was involved in the creation of the world itself, his influence cannot be expelled from it even after he himself has been physically removed.
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The Silmarillion / int_d948b07	type	Terrain Sculpting
The Silmarillion / int_d948b07	comment	Terrain Sculpting: In the beginning of the world, the Valar tried to shape it according to divine plan, while Melkor came along and undid their work. The end result was that the world was very gradually formed.
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The Silmarillion / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Silmarillion / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Men arrive in Beleriand and discover the Elves' war with Morgoth, a fair few of them turn around and head right back over the Blue Mountains so they won't have to deal with it. Morgoth, of course, tries to encourage this as much as he can. When NÃºmenor's decline began, a significant number of the Faithful began to depart from the island to havens in Middle-earth, such as Lond Daer in southern Eriador and Pelargir in what would later become Gondor.
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The Silmarillion / int_da4a8208	type	Progressive Instrumentation
The Silmarillion / int_da4a8208	comment	Progressive Instrumentation: A rare literary example, the Song of Iluvatar is described as this. Each of the Valar adds their voice to the rest, one by one, and Iluvatar adapts the song to fit each new voice, including Melkor when he attempts to turn it into a dirge...
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The Silmarillion / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Silmarillion / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl Haleth. Holding out against a massive onslaught of Orcs, her father, the leader of their band of Men is killed and her twin brother dies trying to retrieve that body, so with a combination of physical prowess and pure willpower manages to keep a fair amount of her people alive until help arrives at the last minute. LÃºthien counts, considering the lengths she went to helping Beren in his quest. While she never personally engaged in battle, she did contest with the will of Sauron, and was instrumental in sneaking into Angband. There's also the little bit about putting Morgoth under her spell...
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The Silmarillion / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
The Silmarillion / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base Everybody with means to do so delves one: Morgoth had Utumno and Angband, Thingol and Melian had Menegroth, Finrod had Nargothrond, the dwarves had Belegost and Nogrod, and even the Petty-Dwarves had Amon RÃ»dh. Only Men and wood-elves had the misfortune of lacking massive underground fortifications in which to hide when the enemy came calling. Gondolin is a subversion: a shining city on a hill, but hidden away behind almost impenetrable mountains (possibly a big crater or caldera), so effectively underground as far as concealment and defense are concerned.
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The Silmarillion / int_db126a0b	type	World Tree
The Silmarillion / int_db126a0b	comment	World Tree: The Two Trees of Light created by Yavanna, Laurelin and Telperion, are the vast and holy trees that light the entire Blessed Realm. The repeated themes of trees and light as symbols of goodness come together in them. Their light is preserved by FÃ«anor in the Silmarils, even after the Trees themselves are destroyed. The Moon and Sun grow from their branches before they die, and the last Silmaril becomes what we call Venus, the Evening Star.
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The Silmarillion / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
The Silmarillion / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Beren and LÃºthien.
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The Silmarillion / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
The Silmarillion / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun The first Sunrise signals the awakening of the race of Men, in a suitably dramatic passage. The Moon first appeared at the same time the Noldor reached the end of the Grinding Ice.
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The Silmarillion / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Silmarillion / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: EÃ¶l the Dark Elf, who forged two Infinity Plus One Swords, one of which became famous and even, according to the Book of Lost Tales, will become significant to the future Apocalypse of the world.
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The Silmarillion / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
The Silmarillion / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Most of the Noldorin leaders.
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The Silmarillion / int_de15a322	type	Tangled Family Tree
The Silmarillion / int_de15a322	comment	Celeborn and Galadriel's daughter Celebrian marries Dior and Nimloth's grandson Elrond. Their relations can be named in several different ways. Elrond is also Celebrian's paternal second cousin twice removed. Celebrian is the granddaughter of Finarfin and Elrond is the great-great-grandson of his brother Fingolfin.
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The Silmarillion / int_de953d10	type	Rage Helm
The Silmarillion / int_de953d10	comment	Rage Helm: The Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost were known for wearing hideous and frightening masks in combat. The Dragon Helm of Dor-lÃ³min was originally a dwarven helmet worn by AzaghÃ¢l, Lord of Belegost. He gave it to Maedhros as a gift when they became allies, and Maedhros passed it on to his friend Fingon. However, the helm was simply too damn heavy for any elf to wear it comfortably. Eventually, Fingon gave it to the Mannish chieftain Hador, when Hador became Lord of Dor-lÃ³min, and it became an heirloom of his house.
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The Silmarillion / int_df04089a	type	Lineage Comes from the Father
The Silmarillion / int_df04089a	comment	Lineage Comes from the Father: Galadriel is counted among the Noldor, even though proportionally she has more Vanyarin and Telerin blood.
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The Silmarillion / int_df1a0454	type	Fantasy Pantheon
The Silmarillion / int_df1a0454	comment	Fantasy Pantheon: Eru IlÃºvatar, and his personified thoughts, the Valar and Maiar. However, Eru is the only true God, consistent with Tolkien's Catholicism. The Ainur are the equivalent of Christian angels, though they take the place of a polytheistic pantheon in the story.
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The Silmarillion / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Silmarillion / int_df582b0b	comment	Galadriel is the daughter of EÃ¤rwen, and granddaughter OlwÃ«, king of the Teleri. Her husband Celeborn is the grandson of Elmo (or his son, or OlwÃ«'s grandson), OlwÃ«'s brother. This makes them second cousins (or Galadriel Celeborn's first cousin once removed).
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The Silmarillion / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
The Silmarillion / int_e0040f41	comment	Really the Start of Darkness for all the Elves, and Arda, too.
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The Silmarillion / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
The Silmarillion / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: In the first parts. Not only are they mortal, but they also have that special form of inherent discontent with the World-as-Is, which forces them to strive for Excellence. Elves are more concerned with preserving natural beauty. Mortals are also apparently the only species to have some freedom from the decrees of the Great Music, "which is as fate to all things else."
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The Silmarillion / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Silmarillion / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: Angrist, a knife that cuts iron like cheese. Telchar of Nogrod, the Dwarven smith who forged it, also created the sword Narsil, which found its way into Elendil's possession, and was eventually reforged into AndÃºril in The Lord of the Rings.
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The Silmarillion / int_e0ecc959	type	Changed My Mind, Kid
The Silmarillion / int_e0ecc959	comment	Changed My Mind, Kid: The Haladin, a tribe of Men, are just about crumbling after a week holed up in a fortress resisting an Orc rout with their leader and his son dead when Caranthir, one of FÃ«anor's sons on whose land they've grudgingly been tolerated enough to live on, finally shows up with his followers. Haleth, who helped them pull through that long against incredible odds is grateful but not grateful enough to accept Caranthir's offer of more official residence and alliance.
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The Silmarillion / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
The Silmarillion / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: Though Tolkien writes plenty of badass Heroes, a common theme throughout his literature is facing impossible odds, and often dying in the process. As such, there are Hero Killers a-plenty in The Silmarillion. Morgoth. Responsible for the rest of the villainous Hero Killers, as well as responsible for the deaths of millions of soldiers of good. Personally, he slew several of the strongest warriors of his era, although often received permanent wounds in the process. Of all the Valar, only Tulkas was capable of beating him in a one-on-one fight. Sauron. The only hero to ever fight him man-to-man and succeed was Huan, a Valarian hound. Elendil, the King of Gondor and Arnor, and Gil-Galad, High King of the Noldor, managed to kill him in combat as well, however they did not survive the battle either. Gothmog. Morgoth's toughest Balrog and the overall commander of his armies. Gothmog never missed the chance to fight even the boldest and strongest of Heroes, and even when he died at the hands of Ecthelion of the Fountain, Ecthelion didn't survive to tell the tale. Ungoliant. Another one of the Baddies, there are no specific heroes she's killed, but it is noted that many have tried to hunt her down and slay her, and none ever returned. Glaurung. The Granddaddy of Dragons. Not only did he enjoy playing with the psyches of his enemies, he also bled highly acidic blood, and when he finally was slain by TÃºrin, he was so badly injured in the fight that he fell into despair. Ancalagon the Black. The largest Dragon in the history of Arda. Like Ungoliant, he never slew any specifically-named Heroes, but during the War of Wrath, he burnt, ate, or crushed thousands of Valarian warriors and their allies. Carcharoth. A wolf bred by Morgoth specifically to counter Huan, Carcharoth directly killed both Beren and Huan, and indirectly caused LÃºthien's death shortly thereafter. FÃ«anor. Though not as evil as the other Villains listed, he still had a hand to play in brutality. Paranoid and egocentric, he nearly attempted to murder his brother and famed Hero Fingolfin, and had his forces slaughter the Teleri in order to seize their ships. He later left many of his Noldori to die for not being loyal enough, and even killed his own son, though it was accidental.
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The Silmarillion / int_e1ecdac3	type	Our Gods Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_e1ecdac3	comment	Our Gods Are Different: Eru Iluvatar is God in the Abrahamic sense; an all-powerful creator who exists outside of time and permeates everything. The Valar and Maiar should be thought of more like gods in the Classical sense, or, since they're subordinate to Eru, like angels. Tolkien might have been inspired by writers like Milton or Dante, who were very much Christian but still wanted to put pagan deities in their created worlds; there's a fair bit of justification for why the Valar don't violate the First Commandment by their very existence. As a side note, nobody in Arda seems to practice any form of organized worship of any of the above. The only exception we've seen is the fallen men of Numenor, and for them it's treated like a very bad thing and a sign that Sauron had corrupted them.
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The Silmarillion / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
The Silmarillion / int_e1fa333c	comment	There's an attempted but failed one from TÃºrin to Glaurung when they first meet. Glaurung releases TÃºrin from his spell, having given him a Hannibal Lecture with him stuck to the spot by hypnosis and then gives him another when the spell is lifted. TÃºrin comes forward to try to stab his eyes out with his sword, but Glaurung "towers above him", puts him back under his spell and resumes the lecture.
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The Silmarillion / int_e294a0be	type	Our Souls Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_e294a0be	comment	Our Souls Are Different: And how. This is a pretty complex issue — the nature and fate of the soul depends on race. Ainur (Valar and Maiar) are primordial spirits that existed before the beginning of the world; they can take physical form, but for them this is more like wearing clothes than having a body. When they "die" they usually just make a new one, though fallen Ainur can become so messed up that they lose this ability. In their purest form, Ainur were the offspring of Eru's thoughts himself and each was given understanding only of that part of the mind of Illuvatar from which he or she came. The exception to this was Melkor. Whereas the Incarnates (Elves, Men/Hobbits, and Dwarves) are only "complete" when they are embodied. They all have a spirit or soul (fÃ«a) which comes from the Flame Imperishable of IlÃºvatar. It is indestructible and grants the individual consciousness and free-will, but unlike the Ainur it is utterly powerless without a body made of the physical matter of Arda. The Valar, Maiar, and Elves must remain in the world until it ends, and cannot leave it: Elves whose bodies are killed can remain as shades (though this choice implies they are tainted), or go to the Halls of Mandos and hope to get a new body after a time of waiting. Which Elves get reincarnated seems to depend mostly on whether they can repent of whatever mistakes or misdeeds they've made, but the details are murky at best. The souls of Men and Hobbits are designed to leave the universe after a relatively short lifespan; trying to avoid this fate leads to serious problems (Gollum and the NazgÃ»l are examples). The fate of Dwarves is even more obscure; Elves seem to think they have no afterlife at all, but Dwarves believe that their maker AulÃ« will take care of them in the Halls of Mandos. A still more obscure question is, what happens to dead Orcs? The Silmarillion suggests (without confirming) that Orcs were bred from Elves who were tortured and corrupted, and a throwaway line in The Lord of the Rings suggests that two of the Orc characters might remember the First Age, which at that point was a good six thousand years ago: the Orcs may be as long-lived as the Elves, though Tolkien elsewhere contradicted that. Maybe their souls go to the same place as those of Elves (where presumably they wait for the end of the world). Tolkien never quite figured out the question of Orc souls: everything in the legendarium suggests that Orcs are creatures of pure evil but he was never happy with what that might imply. And then there are Ents, giant Eagles, Hounds of OromÃ«, and other more obscure creatures; Tolkien couldn't even decide whether the talking animals have souls at all, let alone what kind of afterlife they'd have. Meanwhile, Ents seem to be Incarnates and as immortal-within-the-world as Elves, but the fate of slain Ents is never mentioned.
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The Silmarillion / int_e2ef7c20	type	No Man of Woman Born
The Silmarillion / int_e2ef7c20	comment	No Man of Woman Born: Huan the wolfhound can only be killed by the mightiest werewolf to ever live. Sauron tries to kill him by shapeshifting into the most powerful werewolf alive, but this fails because the most powerful werewolf to ever live is Carcharoth, who hadn't come into his full power yet.
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The Silmarillion / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
The Silmarillion / int_e313b4e7	comment	Manchild: The Men see Elves as eternal children. Given to their actions, this seems pretty much justified.
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The Silmarillion / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
The Silmarillion / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: as a prequel, it's loaded with them, but the most interesting is the business of Galadriel's hair. Apparently it was the shade of the combined colours of the silver and golden trees, and FÃ«anor greatly craved it - he creates the Silmarils in an attempt to match it after Galadriel refuses to give him a lock of her hair. Now think about what Gimli asked of her in The Lord of the Rings.
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The Silmarillion / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
The Silmarillion / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: TÃºrin fights with a sword and has a cool dragon-topped helmet, and Beleg is pretty badass with bow and arrow, hence his title "CÃºthalion", meaning "Strongbow". Together they gain renown as the Two Captains and the land they hold becomes known as Dor-CÃºarthol, meaning the Land of Helm and Bow.
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The Silmarillion / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
The Silmarillion / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: Subverted. The War of Wrath between the Valar and the fallen Valar turned Destroyer Deity Morgoth is immensely destructive with countless dead, including sinking the continent of Beleriand beneath the sea. As a result, the Valar decide to no longer use their power to directly intervene in the war against evil to prevent such destruction in the future. Subverted in that, unfortunately, this makes things all the more difficult when one of Morgoth's lieutenants creates problems down the line.
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The Silmarillion / int_e45ce099	type	The Wise Prince
The Silmarillion / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: Finrod Felagund, and his father Finarfin. Finarfin is the one prince of Tirion wise enough not to stick with the rebellion. He thus becomes king of Tirion, and leads the non-rebellious Noldor in battle against Morgoth when the Valar finally come to save Beleriand.
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The Silmarillion / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Silmarillion / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Occasionally looks can deceive; during the Second Age, Sauron's preferred form is that of a beautiful angelic being (Annatar, the "Lord of Gifts"); it is in this form that he deceives the Elves into forging the Rings of Power and later subverts NÃºmenÃ³rÃ«. Melkor's eyes also originally "pierced with a deadly light."
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The Silmarillion / int_e545350f	type	Lust
The Silmarillion / int_e545350f	comment	Elves are in many ways more powerful, "magical" and skilled than Men (they better be as they got long enough to practice), but they can screw up monumentally. Possibly more than Men in fact, as their greater power lets them screw up more dramatically and cause more damage. Elves have more control over their bodies than Men, and thus are less inclined toward mundane sins like Lust and Gluttony and Sloth, but can fall to Wrath or Pride just as Men can. In other words, when an elf becomes evil it is not because he lacks willpower; it is because he actually intends to do so. Elves are more "in-tune" with the physical world than Mortal Men, since they are a permanent part of it. As such, they seem to feel things more intensely than Mortals, and as a consequence their errors in judgment can be far more damaging. Their peaks and valleys are more like mountains and canyons. An angry Elf is a Person of Mass Destruction. A sad Elf can literally die of a broken heart.
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The Silmarillion / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Silmarillion / int_e567510d	comment	FÃ«anor, High King of the Noldor, stated in canon to be the most clever and most skilled elf in history, singlehandedly routs an army of orcs and chases them into a trap against seven Balrogs. Even though he is wounded and on fire, he fights against the demonic creatures for hours until Morgoth sends out a Balrog as powerful as Sauron to kill him... and FÃ«anor still refuses to go down until his sons and their armies arrive to rescue him. He dies of full body burns and severe wounds a few hours later and the sheer anger and refusal of FÃ«anor to die causes his body to disintegrate into burning ash. Very in-character for him.
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The Silmarillion / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Silmarillion / int_e596f27b	comment	Tragic lovers Beren and LÃºthien are separated and reunited in death, twice! Special because, being a Man and an elf, they would not have had the same fate after death (elves are bound to the world for as long as it lasts whereas Men are fated to leave it forever after a short while), but, through divine intervention, got the one exception. After their first death they were sent back for a short time to live a happy life together, and after their second death LÃºthien's spirit was allowed to follow Beren's out of this world, as Man souls do.
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The Silmarillion / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
The Silmarillion / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Even the Valar are dismayed and disoriented by the Unlight of Ungoliant.
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The Silmarillion / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Silmarillion / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Ar-Pharazon from the Akallabeth is the nephew of the King of Numenor, Tar-Palantir. When the king dies, Ar-Pharazon forces the king's daughter to marry him, considered an act of great evil, and usurps the throne of Numenor. When Sauron declares himself King of Men, Ar-Pharazon takes it as a challenge to his ego and resolves to make Sauron serve him, which backfires when Sauron charms his way into Ar-Pharazon's council, persuading Ar-Pharazon to worship Morgoth and instituting a Religion of Evil which practices Human Sacrifice. Sauron eventually persuades Ar-Pharazon to take Valinor, the land of the Gods, by force, and Ar-Pharazon's choice to lay claim to Valinor dooms Numenor when Eru separates Valinor from the rest of the world and causes Numenor to be lost beneath the waves. While the rest of Numenor is mourned for its loss of a golden age, Ar-Pharazon is not, and he is condemned to linger in the world until the end of time. Saeros is a racist Elf in King Thingol's court who resents the presence of Turin as a ward of Thingol. One evening Saeros makes insulting remarks about Turin's people, causing Turin to throw a mug in Saeros' face and injure him. The next morning, Saeros attempts to murder Turin over the previous night's events, provoking Turin into stripping him and accidentally killing him by running him off a cliff. When Thingol hears of what Saeros had done, he pardons Turin, while it's stated that Saeros would be held in Mandos, the land of the dead, for a long time due to his misdeeds.
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The Silmarillion / int_e6a901a3	type	Meaningful Rename
The Silmarillion / int_e6a901a3	comment	Meaningful Rename: Feanor is the one who changes Melkor's title to Morgoth. It's pretty clear by then what he's become and how he's seen that he fully deserves the new name compared to the old one (see Meaningful Name for specifics). TÃºrin gave himself many aliases to hide his identity, usually obliquely referring to whatever horrible thing had last happened to him: i.e. Neithan (the Wronged), Agarwaen (the Blood-Stained), Turambar (Master of Doom). By doom mastered Galadriel was originally called Artanis ("Noblewoman" in Quenya), she was given the name Galadriel ("Maiden crowned with a radiant garland" in Sindarin) by her husband Celeborn.
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The Silmarillion / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Silmarillion / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Ulfang and his sons. He was an Easterling chieftain who secretly allied himself with Morgoth while serving under Caranthir, and it was his people's treachery that allowed Morgoth to learn all the secret plans for the Union of Maedhros and crush the alliance in the NÃrnaeth Arnoediad. Having agreed to betray Gondolin to Morgoth, Maeglin went back to the city and pretended everything was just fine, waiting for the invasion to start. He never once warned anybody. In The Book of Lost Tales his house's symbol is even a mole.
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The Silmarillion / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
The Silmarillion / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: Draugluin comes to die lying by the feet of Sauron, his master. The dog similarities are more or less justified by the fact that he is a wolf, or at least a werewolf.
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The Silmarillion / int_e7f9c214	type	Barred from the Afterlife
The Silmarillion / int_e7f9c214	comment	Barred from the Afterlife: TÃºrin essentially barred himself from the passing on from the Halls of Mandos unto Eru, which is extraordinary since Men by their design are meant to depart Arda. Due to his failures TÃºrin is unable to rest in peace. Can anyone blame him? Morgoth ensured he had a fairly lousy existence. It's poetic then that he is prophesied to deal the killing blow unto Morgoth and destroy his evil influence. The NÃºmenorean king Ar-Pharazon the Golden and his army remain interned in the Cave of the Forgotten in Valinor. Do not open till Dagor Dagorath! Subverted by Maglor, while an elf and thus immortal, who is forbidden ever return to Elvenhome. Which means he is still here amongst us.
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The Silmarillion / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
The Silmarillion / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: A frequent visual motif in the legendarium is darkness and shadow as a metaphor and literal tool of evil. However, it isn't without exceptions, for nothing was evil in its beginning, including the concept of darkness. Darkness as an evil motif: Morgoth uses and abuses darkness, turning it from a harmless cozy nighttime thing into a terror and a weapon. He works in darkness, his servants (such as Orcs) fear and hate the Sun and Moon, he destroys light wherever he can (except the Silmarils, which he can't destroy and keeps as spoils). Ungoliant, the horrific spider-shaped thing that crawled from the Void, devours all light and belches out webs of shadow darker-than-dark, shadows that are more than mere absence of light. With Morgoth, she destroys the holy Trees of Valinor. EÃ¶l, called "the Dark Elf," is the only individual Dark Elf to always be associated with literal darkness. He lives in the dark, hates and shuns sunlight, and is pretty evil at the end of the day. He's got fewer redeeming features than FÃ«anor. Caranthir the Dark, FÃ«anor's fifth son. On one hand, he is supposed to be called "the Dark" because of his hair color (contrasted with his brother Celegorm the Fair note though Celegorm explicitly being blond was cut from the published work due to the apparent Continuity Snarl with later conceptions, namely that blond hair was only on his step-grandmother's side of the family tree) and is on the Noldor's side. On the other hand, he is a Jerkass who participates in the massacres of Elf by Elf, and who thinks the Sindar are inferior, and is a loud-mouthed bully even by FÃ«anorian standards. He does get a Pet the Dog moment when he and his troops rescue the people of Haleth from Orcs, though even that is suspect. He conveniently shows up just after their leaders have been killed, and offers to basically let them be a buffer between his people and Morgoth, only he phrases it better. That Haleth immediately led her people away from him and to Thingol of all Elves makes you wonder.
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The Silmarillion / int_e8d46c29	type	Backstory
The Silmarillion / int_e8d46c29	comment	Backstory: Sometimes confused to be this to The Lord of the Rings, but are actually the original main stories and written much earlier. The author just never finished or published them, and so they are often viewed as supplementary to LotR, rather than equal tales that just happen to predate (both in in-universe and real-world chronology) the book that got the hype started.
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The Silmarillion / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
The Silmarillion / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: EÃ¤rendil's ship Vingilot. It carries a holy Silmaril jewel and appears as the brightest star in the sky (a.k.a. Venus).
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The Silmarillion / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Silmarillion / int_e9e35e8f	comment	After capturing Gorlim, one of Barahir's resistant outlaws, Sauron offers to reunite him with his captive wife, Eilinel, if Gorlim betrays the whereabouts of Barahir and his men. Once Sauron obtains the information, he informs Gorlim that Eilinel is dead and he had only seen a phantom, and promptly kills him.
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The Silmarillion / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Silmarillion / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Elves are truly immortal and will know the greatest wonders of creation, experiencing life to its very fullest on Arda. They initially regarded the short-lived Men as the "sickly" and "doomed" to die. As the ages pass though, gradually they, and even the god-like Valar, will become intensely jealous of Eru's Gift of Men, for death is liberation of the physical world and the inevitable sorrows of loss.
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The Silmarillion / int_eb3c0a1	type	The Kingslayer
The Silmarillion / int_eb3c0a1	comment	The Kingslayer: The dwarven jewelsmiths who killed the great elven king Thingol. It started the whole Elves Versus Dwarves shtick in the whole of Middle-earth (and, after that, in many other fantasy universes that ripped the Elves Versus Dwarves shtick from Professor Tolkien). Now that is a regicide with repercussions!
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The Silmarillion / int_eb467486	type	Monster Progenitor
The Silmarillion / int_eb467486	comment	Monster Progenitor: Ungoliant spawns numerous hideous spider-like things, such as Shelob. To a similar extent, Glaurung is referred to as the "Father of Dragons."
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The Silmarillion / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Silmarillion / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Barahir, a Man and chief of the House of BÃ«or, rescuing Finrod Felagund in the Pass of Sirion during the Dagor Bragollach. Felagund swears an oath to come to the aid of Barahir or any of his descendants in their hour of need just as Barahir did for him.
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The Silmarillion / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Silmarillion / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Ar-PharazÃ´n is a subversion — his storyline is certainly that of classic tragedy, but the reader has no sympathy at all for him, seeing as the guy was an incestuous, megalomanic Jerkass even before he met Sauron.
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The Silmarillion / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Silmarillion / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Half-brothers FÃ«anor and Fingolfin. FÃ«anor doesn't kill Fingolfin, but he comes pretty close, twice.
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The Silmarillion / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
The Silmarillion / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: As Beren, Finrod, and their companions journey to Angband with the intent to retrieve a Silmaril from the crown of Morgoth, they come upon a camp of Orcs which they attack, killing all the Orcs. They then take the Orcs' weapons, and Finrod casts a spell that makes them assume the appearance of the Orcs they killed. In this disguise they travel far into Morgoth's territory, but arouse the suspicion of Sauron when they pass by the watchtower of Tol-in-Gaurhoth without reporting back to him. As Luthien and Huan follow Beren who is once again trying to get into Angband, Huan stops at the ruins of Sauron's watchtower to pick up the skins of the werewolf Draugluin (whom Huan had killed earlier) and the vampire bat Thuringwethil (who was presumably killed when Luthien made the tower collapse). On the advice of Huan and with Luthien's magic, Beren and Luthien use the skins to disguise themselves as Draugluin and Thuringwethil, and thus reach the Gate of Angband.
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The Silmarillion / int_ece948d8	type	Tender Tears
The Silmarillion / int_ece948d8	comment	Tender Tears: Nienna. Though with Morgoth tearing around Arda and destroying the Valar's handiwork, she's got a legitimate reason to cry (plus her tears essentially work like divine Healing Potions).
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The Silmarillion / int_eddfe7e5	type	Underground City
The Silmarillion / int_eddfe7e5	comment	Underground City: The Dwarven cities.
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The Silmarillion / int_ee19033d	type	Atlantis
The Silmarillion / int_ee19033d	comment	The fall of NÃºmenor, also known as AkallabÃªth or AtalantÃ«, is Atlantis's destruction IN MIDDLE-EARTH!
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The Silmarillion / int_ef2582c3	type	Named Weapons
The Silmarillion / int_ef2582c3	comment	Named Weapons: Both TÃºrin and Beleg have them, and many others.
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The Silmarillion / int_f0864fd9	type	Combat by Champion
The Silmarillion / int_f0864fd9	comment	Fingolfin after hearing that all of the North is in ruin from the Battle of Sudden Flame, after which he rides alone to challenge Morgoth.
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The Silmarillion / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Silmarillion / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: While most contemporary Dark Fantasy has arisen from the Hype Backlash against Tolkien's work and critics are quick to blame him for High Fantasy's typical Black-and-White Morality, The Silmarillion shows his world in a very different light. Violent, morally ambiguous antiheroes? Check. Black and Grey (though still a little bit of white) morality? Check. Hypocritical, brutal, imperialist elves who'd give the Lannisters nightmares? Check. Sexual themes like rape and incest? Check. Dead kids? Check. Downer Ending? Oh boy, yes.
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The Silmarillion / int_f18c7347	type	Twisting the Prophecy
The Silmarillion / int_f18c7347	comment	Twisting the Prophecy: From the "Tale of Beren and Luthien" has an example that overlaps this and Prophecy Twist. When trying to free Beren from a prison run by Sauron, Luthien is aided by Huan, a wolfhound with semi-divine powers, about whom there is a prophecy that he will not be killed except by "the mightiest wolf that would ever walk the world". After Huan has killed all of Sauron's werewolves, it occurs to Sauron (who is aware of the prophecy) to transform himself into a giant werewolf larger than any other werewolf before him and fight Huan in this shape. Sauron is shamefully defeated; when Sauron's superior Morgoth hears about this, he correctly deduces that the "mightiest wolf that would ever walk the world" is yet to come and raises another wolf whom he causes to grow to an even greater size than the transformed Sauron. It is this wolf, Carcharoth, who eventually kills Huan.
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The Silmarillion / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
The Silmarillion / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: By the end of the First Age, the surviving sons of Feanor have realized that their oath has brought nothing but pain and suffering to the world. They still feel compelled to try stealing the Silmarils, and they're completely miserable about it. For all the evil creature too. Melkor started as the mightiest of the Valar, and ended up the weakest, hateful and miserable of everything and everyone, but incapable of ever fulfilling his desire of destroying the world, and barred to the void until the end of the world (when he will die). Sauron ended up as a disembodied powerless spirit. Feanor is bounded to remain in Mandos until the end of days as penance for his crimes. All his sons end up dead too. The orcs are utterly miserable beings that hate themselves and everyone else.
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The Silmarillion / int_f1d2c779	type	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
The Silmarillion / int_f1d2c779	comment	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Tolkien's wife Edith was a fair-skinned brunette, and apparently his own aesthetic preferences combined with what seem to be ancient Celtic standards of beauty*most were probably dark-haired, not redheaded to make this combination the most common for the really beautiful people. Elves, of course, are the most beautiful incarnates, very tall and always superhumanly healthy and physically perfect (unless they're maimed or something). And the great majority of elves have pale skin and black or dark brown hair. Some of them are especially emphasized for their dark-haired-pale-skinned beauty: LÃºthien, the daughter of Melian the Maia and most beautiful woman in the world (and sort-of-avatar for Edith Tolkien), and her descendant Arwen in The Lord of the Rings. A male example would be TÃºrin Turambar, a brooding anti-hero with black hair and pale skin who's described as being more handsome than any other mortal man.
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The Silmarillion / int_f210d3d7	type	Magnum Opus
The Silmarillion / int_f210d3d7	comment	Magnum Opus: Discussed In-Universe via the idea of there being one great work that one is destined to create in life, never to be surpassed or recreated, the prime examples being the creation of Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor by Yavanna, and the crafting of the Silmarils by FÃ«anor.
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The Silmarillion / int_f2c01f65	type	Axis Mundi
The Silmarillion / int_f2c01f65	comment	Axis Mundi: Meneltarma, the holy mountain in the center of NÃºmenor, and the highest peak on the island. The NÃºmenÃ³reans viewed it as the most sacred site to Eru IlÃºvatar and required absolute silence on it for all except the king during specific holy days. Animals did not approach it either, save for the Great Eagles that circled it as guards.
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The Silmarillion / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Silmarillion / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: A few characters; Beren certainly comes to mind.
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The Silmarillion / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
The Silmarillion / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Tragic lovers Beren and LÃºthien are separated and reunited in death, twice! Special because, being a Man and an elf, they would not have had the same fate after death (elves are bound to the world for as long as it lasts whereas Men are fated to leave it forever after a short while), but, through divine intervention, got the one exception. After their first death they were sent back for a short time to live a happy life together, and after their second death LÃºthien's spirit was allowed to follow Beren's out of this world, as Man souls do. Aegnor and Andreth are a variant. Andreth died and left the world forever. When Aegnor died, he could not follow her because being an elf, his life is tied to the world's. So he refused reincarnation and decided to remain in the Halls of Mandos forever because being permanently dead was the closest that he could get to being together in death with Andreth.
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The Silmarillion / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
The Silmarillion / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The two direct conflicts between Melkor and the Valar are intentionally left vague by the author as they're the only ones that the Elves weren't present for. The very first war happened during the physical creation of Arda. All we're told is that Melkor assumed a great and terrible shape, described as "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." He and the Valar clashed over and over again as he sabotaged the world; they built mountains and Melkor threw them down, they dug valleys and he filled them up, they filled oceans and he spilled them over. Back in those days, Melkor was the strongest thing in the universe save IlÃºvatar himself so none of the Valar could stop him. This stalemate continued until Tulkas came down and finally managed to defeat him, forcing Melkor to flee and allowing Arda to be finished. The second war is known as "The Battle of the Powers" and it was done for the sake of the Elves so they could make the journey to Aman unmolested by Melkor's growing forces. Once the Elves awoke they were protected by a group of Maiar and kept far away from the fighting. All the Elves knew of the war was that it shook the ground and Melkor's distant fortress of Untumno could be seen by the huge fires around the area. This war ended with Melkor's forces nearly annihlated and the big man himself being chained and dragged back to Aman. The survivors leftover will be the cause of the woes experienced by the Elves and Dwarves left behind after the fact.
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The Silmarillion / int_f786350a	type	Dying Curse
The Silmarillion / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: As FÃ«anor dies of the wounds he sustained in battle with Morgoth's Balrogs, he curses "the name of Morgoth" three times before succumbing to his injuries.
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The Silmarillion / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
The Silmarillion / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: Maeglin's heartbreak over Idril helps motivate him to betray Gondolin, so he can murder her husband and seven-year-old son and have a chance to rape her. Daeron's love for LÃºthien leads him to betray Beren to Thingol, who most definitely intended to kill the guy, and later to get LÃºthien in trouble for trying to follow Beren. But unlike Maeglin, he's genuinely concerned for LÃºthien, and apologizes when he sees Thingol's reaction.
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The Silmarillion / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Silmarillion / int_f7cee9b	comment	Hurin: Watched his people be massacred in a horrific battle, committed himself to a Last Stand where he killed hundreds of monsters with an axe and shouted "Day shall come again!" every time he killed. He only got captured because his axe melted.
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The Silmarillion / int_f81084e9	type	Vampiric Werewolf
The Silmarillion / int_f81084e9	comment	Vampiric Werewolf: Sauron, despite officially being a Maia, is a shapeshifter who takes the form of both a vampire and a werewolf- which, in the world of Middle-Earth, are evil spirits who just take the forms of really big bats and wolves- at separate points in the story.
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The Silmarillion / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
The Silmarillion / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: Like dragons, they are demonic spirits in animal bodies/shapes, not "infected" Men. They apparently are not shapeshifters, always resembling huge talking wolves, but the text never clarifies. Sauron was their lord in the First Age.
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The Silmarillion / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
The Silmarillion / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Played straight with Morgoth, when one of his plans is messed up by pity. Since he himself has none, he couldn't expect anyone else to show mercy to an enemy. Subverted when Glaurung spares TÃºrin's life and he stares back at him, "being yet bemused by the eyes of the dragon, as were he treating with a foe that could know pity."
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The Silmarillion / int_fb1fb07f	type	Doomy Dooms of Doom
The Silmarillion / int_fb1fb07f	comment	Doomy Dooms of Doom: Mandos, the judge of the dead, pronounces a doom against the Noldor. (This is using "doom" in its older sense, meaning destiny or fate, but they're all doomed, anyway.) The word "doom" used to mean "destiny" appears all over the frickin' place in this book.
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The Silmarillion / int_fb463c65	type	Self-Guarding Phlebotinum
The Silmarillion / int_fb463c65	comment	Self-Guarding Phlebotinum: The eponymous Silmarils burned any evil or tainted creature touching them, such as Morgoth and Carcharoth, while sparing the good-aligned heroes such as Beren and EÃ¤rendil. Becomes a plot point late in the book, when two remaining sons of FÃ«anor (the Silmarils' creator) finally get their hands on their "heirlooms" — only to find that the Silmarils reject and burn them, after all they have done to get them back.
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The Silmarillion / int_fb9e0265	type	Team Dad
The Silmarillion / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Maedhros, the eldest son of FÃ«anor, filled this role among his more violent brothers — at least at first. He eventually turned to evil, though not as badly as Celegorm and Curufin. When Beren's grandchildren were left to die, Maedhros did at least try to find them. Also, he was willing to swallow his pride and work with the other peoples to take Morgoth down. Not an innocent by any means, but Maedhros did have a conscience. He finally repented after seeing the damage the Oath had done.
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The Silmarillion / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
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The Silmarillion / int_fd497706	comment	FÃ«anor. Though not as evil as the other Villains listed, he still had a hand to play in brutality. Paranoid and egocentric, he nearly attempted to murder his brother and famed Hero Fingolfin, and had his forces slaughter the Teleri in order to seize their ships. He later left many of his Noldori to die for not being loyal enough, and even killed his own son, though it was accidental.
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The Silmarillion / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: Orcs. The origin that made it into the book is that they were once Elves, twisted and corrupted by Morgoth. This is only one possibility, though, and it kept changing right up until Tolkien's death — he didn't like the implications that Always Chaotic Evil had for their eternal souls, even though he did not want evil to be capable of independent creation, which would have conflicted with his Christianity.
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The Silmarillion / int_fed93e1b	comment	TÃºrin, due to his Dark and Troubled Past, is seen as dangerous, if a powerful ally, in Nargothrond. Finduilas' ex-lover Gwindor tells her that TÃºrin is "not Beren". Tuor, on the other hand, is accepted by the people of Gondolin as one of them and King Turgon is happy to have him married to his daughter, explicitly referencing Beren and LÃºthien's union as a reason to do so.
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The Silmarillion / int_ff7e9adf	comment	Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Golden hair, instead of the usual black or brown, is typically a sign of a wiser-than-usual Elf, or an especially nice or heroic one: The Vanyar, who usually have golden hair, are the holiest Elves, living closest to the Valar. None of them stay in Middle-earth during the Great March, hardly any join the rebellion, and their king IngwÃ« is the High King of all Eldar. The House of Finarfin, the third of the Noldorin royal houses, inherits the golden hair of the Vanyar from Indis. They are also generally the wisest of the Noldorin princes (excepting Orodreth), the least rash, and the greatest friends to mortals. In his latest writings Tolkien also moved Galadriel far over on the innocent side of the trope, by extricating her from all involvement in the Noldorin rebellion, to the point of having her leave Valinor for Middle-earth by a different route and for a different reason. Finarfin is the most innocent: he quits the rebellion early and goes back to Valinor.
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The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Macho Masochism / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Made a Slave / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Made of Good / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Made of Indestructium / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Magic A Is Magic A / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Magic Hair / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Magical Girlfriend / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Maker of Monsters / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Male Sun, Female Moon / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mass "Oh, Crap!" / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Master Archer / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Master of Illusion / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	May It Never Happen Again / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Friendship / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mayflyâ€“December Romance / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Meaningless Villain Victory / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Medical Monarch / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Messianic Archetype / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Million Mook March / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mind-Control Music / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mineral MacGuffin / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mixed Ancestry is Attractive / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Momma's Boy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Monster Progenitor / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mookâ€“Face Turn / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Morality Kitchen Sink / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mordor / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mortality Phobia / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Moses in the Bulrushes / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mother Nature / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mother of a Thousand Young / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Murder the Hypotenuse / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mutual Kill / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mystical Plague / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Mythopoeia / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Named After the Injury / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Named Weapons / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Narrative Filigree / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Near-Villain Victory / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Never Be Hurt Again / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	No Adaptations Allowed / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	No Badass to His Valet / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	No MacGuffin, No Winner / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	No Yay / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Noble Fugitive / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"! / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Not Badass Enough for Fans / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Not Enough to Bury / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Not Hyperbole / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Offered the Crown / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Omnicidal Maniac / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	One-Track-Minded Hunger / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Only One Afterlife / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Order Versus Chaos / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Our Dark Elves Are Different / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Our Dwarves Are All the Same / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Our Gnomes Are Weirder / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Our Humans Are Different / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Pals with Jesus / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Pantheon Sitcom / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Paradox Person / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Patchwork Story / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Persona Non Grata / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Phlebotinum Muncher / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Place Before Time / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Place of Protection / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Please Spare Him, My Liege! / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Poisonous Captive / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Posthumous Collaboration / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Power of the Void / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Powerful and Helpless / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Prayer of Malice / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Prequel in the Lost Age / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Pride / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Primordial Chaos / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Princess in Rags / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Prophecies Are Always Right / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Proud Scholar Race / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Pummeling the Corpse / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Purple Prose / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Quest to the West / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Questionable Consent / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rage Against the Heavens / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rage Helm / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Raised by Rival / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rapid Hair Growth / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rash Equilibrium / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rash Promise / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Raven Hair, Ivory Skin / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Realism-Induced Horror / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Reasoning with God / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rebellious Princess / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Releasing from the Promise / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Renegade Splinter Faction / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Revenge Through Corruption / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rousing Speech / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Rousseau Was Right / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Ruling Couple / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Run or Die / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sapient Steed / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Savage Wolves / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Saved from Development Hell / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Scars Are Forever / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Science Imitates Art / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Scrapbook Story / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Screw Destiny / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sdrawkcab Alias / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sealed Badass in a Can / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Self-Constructed Being / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Self-Guarding Phlebotinum / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Settling the Frontier / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Swan Song / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Shaped Like Itself / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	She Is the King / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Shining City / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Ships That Pass in the Night / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Shocking Defeat Legacy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Short Title: Long, Elaborate Subtitle / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sibling Team / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Signature Instrument / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Situational Hand Switch / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Soft Water / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Solar and Lunar / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Soul Jar / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Space Is an Ocean / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Spin-Offspring / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Spontaneous Human Combustion / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Stab the Sky / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Stalking Is Love / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Star Power / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Stellar Name / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Stellification / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Stupid Good / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sudden Name Change / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Suicide Mission / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Super-Hearing / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Supernaturally Marked Grave / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Swamps Are Evil / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Swan Boats / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Swiss-Army Tears / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Sword and Sorcerer / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Take Over the World / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Talking Weapon / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Tall, Dark, and Handsome / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Team Dad / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Terrain Sculpting / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Alliance / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Aloner / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Artifact / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Blacksmith / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Captain / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Clan / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Constant / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Corruptible / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Creon / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Dark Side Will Make You Forget / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Dragonslayer / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Empire / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Exile / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Family That Slays Together / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Flame of Life / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Gods Must Be Lazy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Good Kingdom / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Great Flood / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Greatest Story Never Told / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Heart / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The High King / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The High Queen / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Kindnapper / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Kingslayer / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Magnificent / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Maker / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Necrocracy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Nothing After Death / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Old Gods / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Paragon Always Rebels / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Promise / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Sacred Darkness / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Stations of the Canon / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Svengali / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Usurper / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Wild Hunt / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	They Call Him "Sword" / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Throwing Down the Gauntlet / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Thunderbolt Iron / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Tin Tyrant / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Top God / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	TouchÃ© / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Touched by Vorlons / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Tragic Bromance / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Tragic Dream / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Tragic Hero / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Treasure Room / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Troubled, but Cute / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Twisting the Prophecy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Ultimate Blacksmith / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Underequipped Charge / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Underground City / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Unseen Evil / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Unwanted False Faith / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Unwilling Suspension / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Vampiric Werewolf / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Verbal Tic Name / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Villain World / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Villainous Incest / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Villainous Vow / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Villains Want Mercy / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Visionary Villain / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Void Between the Worlds / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Walk into Mordor / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Walking the Earth / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	We Are as Mayflies / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	We Didn't Start the Billy Joel Parodies / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Weapon Specialization / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Welcome Back, Traitor / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	/ int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Wizard Duel / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Woobie Family / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	World of Badass / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	World of Ham / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	World Shapes / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	World Tree / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	World's Strongest Man / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Wound That Will Not Heal / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	You Cannot Grasp the True Form / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good! / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Youngest Child Wins / int_1f140feb
Battlelore	seeAlso	The Silmarillion
Hogwarts Hocus (Roleplay)	seeAlso	The Silmarillion
thesilmarillion	sameAs	The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Flying Dutchman / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Girl in the Tower / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	Romancing the Widow / int_1f140feb
The Silmarillion	hasFeature	The Dark Side / int_1f140feb

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