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Originally Posted by Thinlómien
Sounds interesting... Actually very interesting. That might be the next thing I will buy from a bookstore (after English version of LotR  ). Just curious, but why is it called "Morgoth's Ring"? |
'tis based on one of the essays therein, in which Tolkien puts forward the theory that just as Sauron put much of himself into the Ring, and so weakened the part of himself seperate from the Ring, Morgoth put much of himself into the physical matter of Arda- all of Arda is Morgoth's Ring- and thus we are given a bit of an explanation for Morgoth's apparently weaker form at the end of the First Age than at any time previous.
It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it.