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Myths Transformed VII: Notes on motives in the Silmarillion

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Volume: Morgoth’s Ring
Chapter: Myths Transformed
Pages: 394–406
Paragraph count: 32
Token count: 4,719

Citation Index

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p394
Notes on motives
(i)
p394–395
Sauron was ‘greater’,
p395
Sauron, however, inherited
p395–396
Thus, as ‘Morgoth’,
p396–397
Sauron had never
p397
Morgoth had no
p397–398
Sauron was not
p398
(ii)
p398–399
No one, not
p399
Much could thus
He, like Melkor,
[Morgoth’s staying ‘at
p399–400
Melkor ‘incarnated’ himself
p400
But in this
p400–401
It is quite
p401
(iii)
The Valar ‘fade’
p401–402
This appearance of
p402
Even so, and
In their association
p402–403
The last intervention
p403
The war was
p403–404
In any case,
p404
Nonetheless the breaking
It is very
It may be
p404–405
Here the long
p405
The last effort
The Valar were
Similarly the Elves
p405–406
Evil is fissiparous.