Here's a good one: anyone who has read the extremely lengthy description of the seven gates of Gondolin, each more fantastic, expensive, and better guarded than the last, will realise how ridiculous all that security was, when Morgoth just came through the back way!
And maybe the timing of the destruction of the Two Trees. Everyone was up the mountain at a festival praising Eru, allowing Morgoth time to commit some of his most hideous sins. If they hadn't been so pious, this might not have happened! Eru works in mysterious ways, though, and if it had not been for this act of Morgoth (and the fact he used a sword and not an axe), the sun and moon would never have come into being.
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But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.
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