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Tulkas is awesome. Sauron is stupid.
I have noticed that Tolkien never shows why Sauron or Morgoth are great. In Morgoth's case, is it possible that though he had the skills of all the other Valar, the "mastery" of said skills by the others gave them an advantage against Morgoth? If so, then he could have infact been the weakest compared to the others. Granted, him holding them off for a bit complicates this, but it might work out well in his later days.
You know, sometimes I think that the only reason the Professor claimed that Morgoth and Sauron were tough was so that his story was worth reading. They certainly don't seem strong or smart in the end.
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"And forth went Morgoth, and he was halted by the elves. Then went Sauron, who was stopped by a dog and then aged men. Finally, there came the Witch-King, who destroyed Arnor, but nobody seems to remember that."
-A History of Villains
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