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Originally Posted by the guy who be short
Morgoth would most likely never have wanted a child. The theme of son-overpowering-powerful-God is recurrent in mythology - look at old Zeusy....
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Yes, Zeus and his pantheon rebelling against their father, Kronos and making the visible world with parts of his body, or Odin and his pantheon rebelling against Ymir and making the visible world out of his corpse, etc, etc.
The interesting thing about that, is that this particular theme in mythology is to be found in virtually all cultures, except that of the Hebrews. Now, looking at it from a Judeo-Christian point of view, the explanation could be said that while all cultures seem to have a concept of this rebellion of the Created against the Creator, only the Jews understood that the Father brought the world into being, and not his rebellious creations.
An interesting concept to consider, in the light of Tolkien's Catholicism.