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Old 08-16-2005, 12:47 PM   #42
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I know that Morgoth couldn't produce offspring anyway, but I just thought I'd add an idea.

Morgoth would most likely never have wanted a child. The theme of son-overpowering-powerful-God is recurrent in mythology - look at old Zeusy. A child to him would be a threat. So if he didn't know he was, er, sterile, I don't think he'd have wanted to risk conception. And they didn't have contraception in those days.

Quite odd of Old Tollers to make him sterile though. I can name a few evil people who managed kids...
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