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			Unconquerable spears of steelwere at his nod, no ruth did feel
 the legions of his marshalled hate,
 on whom did wolf and raven wait;
 and black the ravens sat and cried
 upon their banners black and wide
 was heard their hideous chanting dread
 above the reek and trampled dead.
 With fire and sword his ruin red
 on all who would not bow the head
 like lightning fell.  The Northern land
 lay groaning neath his ghastly hand.
 
 Alright, someone like has got to rock.
 
 Then Morgoth came.  For the last time
 in those great wars he dared to climb
 from subterranean throne profound,
 the rumour of his feet a sound
 of rumbling earthquake underground.
 Black-armoured, towering, iron-crowned
 he issued forth;his mighty shield
 a vast unblazoned sable field
 with shadow like a thundercloud;
 and o'er the gleaming king it bowed,
 as huge aloft like mace he hurled
 that hammer of the underworld,
 Grond.  Clanging to the ground it tumbled
 down like a thunderbolt, and crumbled
 the rocks beneath it; smoke up-started,
 a pit yawned, and a fire darted.
 
 Come on, admit it.  Morgoth gets the red carpet for being so cool.
 
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				'It just shows you how true it is that one-half the world doesn't knows how the other three-quarters lives.'
 Bertie, The Code of the Woosters, by P. G. Wodewouse |