Morgoth Bauglir

 / Morgoth / Black King

   'The Black Enemy', name of Melkor, first given to him by Fëanor after the rape of the Silmarils. Also called the Black King; the Dark Lord; the Enemy, Bauglir; and by the Drúedain the Great Dark One.

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   The First Dark Lord.

   'Morgoth' means 'Black Enemy'; 'Bauglir' is 'The Constrainer'.

   After his theft of the Silmarils and Darkening of Valinor, Morgoth fled the Valar, and returned to Middle-earth with Ungoliant before the beginning of the First Age. In his ancient fortress of Angband, far to the north of Beleriand, he made an Iron Crown for himself, with the Silmarils mounted upon it.

   In the first year of the First Age, the Noldor returned to Middle-earth to make war on Morgoth for the recovery of the Silmarils. The history of that Age is the history of the hopeless wars of the Noldor against Morgoth.