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"Green things fell sick and rotted, and rivers were choked with weeds and slime, and fens were made, rank and poisonous, the breeding place of flies; and forests grew dark and perilous, the haunts of fear; and beasts became monsters of horn and ivory and dyed the earth with blood."
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The description of Morgoth's dwelling of Utumno in "Of the Beginning of Days." Just thought I'd throw that out to help clarify how Morgoth found subjects to pervert and twist into strange creatures... perhaps even the "prototypes" of dragons.
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'See half-brother! This is sharper than thy tongue. Try but once more to usurp my place and the love of my father, and maybe it will rid the Noldor of one who seeks to be the master of thralls.' -Feanor, threatening Fingolfin with his sword. ~Moderator of the
Mordor RPG.~