[Mithadan]

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Re: melkor

First, by the time he returned to Middle Earth, he had used up or disseminated his power to the point where he may not have had enough strength to defeat the Girdle. JRRT comments that Sauron, at the end of the Second Age, with his Ring, was more powerful than Morgoth at the end of the First Age. Alternatively, if Morgoth still had sufficient strength to overcome the Girdle, he might have had to do so in person. Morgoth was the only Vala to know fear, perhaps because he had relinquished so much power. He would likely have been too cowardly to personally lead an attack on Doriath.

--Mithadan--
"The Silmarils with living light
were kindled clear, and waxing bright
shone like stars that in the North
above the reek of earth leap forth." </p>