along with the possibility of 'redemption' for orcs - what about the possibility for Morgoth?
i was just re-reading the 'valaquenta' - one of the passages struck me: ""Among them[the Valar & Valier]Nine were of chief power and reverence; but one is removed from their number." that one, of course, is Melkor[Morgoth], who through his greed, jealousy and anger, broke the original fellowship of the 9 and fell into darkness.
in addition to this fellowship, i started thinking about the fellowship of the 9 in LOTR, & about the fall of boromir into darkness; his eventual understanding of the wrongness of his thinking about the fate of the Ring; and, finally, his eventual redemption & death. i wondered if this were a re-cycling of the breaking of the original fellowship of the 9 mythos. & if so, did it leave room to suppose that Melkor could eventually experience the eroors of his dark ways and be redeemed?
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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