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who did J.R.R. Tolkien mean Morgoth to be (symbolically)?
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He intended Morgoth to be Morgoth.
As for Morgoth's dissemination of power: I think that this is an interesting feature and is one way in which Tolkien's mythology diverges somewhat from Christian myth. It is tempting to say that this brings a Manichean strain into the mythos.