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Like Alatar, I don't really give in to hype. I make my own opinions. In my opinion, Morgoth was just a selfish idiot who went from a grumpy guy at first to a horribly bland creature that wanted everybody dead for pretty much no reason whatsoever. Ungoliant probably would have killed him, and he barely beat Fingolfin. At the very least however, he was the original Dark Lord. Sauron's motives seemed even worse than Melkor's, and he appeared even less intelligent and powerful. Luthien and Huan made Sauron their *****, and his Ring always failed him. Also, I don't see the fall of Numenor as Sauron's doing: I always thought that Numenor was stuck down a dark road when Ar-Pharazon came into power, and Sauron being promoted would have allowed Ar-Pharazon to show him off as a trophy more often. It would be like saying "Oh, that's Sauron. He's a Maia. The Aniur are supposed to be much greater than us men, but hey, him being here working for me says otherwise."
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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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