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...First Age of Middle-earth, 6,500 years pre-Frodo. Your hero is the good-hearted but proud and irascible Túrin (son of Húrin), a human warrior who had the good fortune to be trained by elves in wicked swordsmanship. Your villain is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, your basic evil incarnate, who squats in his dark fortress of Angband and makes war on all that is just and beautiful. Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high-heroic style, which is sometimes hilariously dorky and faux-archaic, and as a short subject it never achieves the towering operatic...
...villain of Children is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, who's your basic evil incarnate. Tolkien's baddies rarely have much in the way of personality, and Morgoth spends most of his time squatting in his dark fortress of Angband, casting a shadow over the land and generally making war on all that is just and beautiful. He leaves most of the actual scrapping to his lieutenants, most notably Glaurung, a wingless, wormy and rather sarcastic dragon...
...Morgoth whispered in the ear of Fëanor, to trouble him further. Together they came to Valinor and Morgoth pierced the two sacred trees with his spear and Ungoliant drank their light's blood from out of them and the two creatures escaped and a twilight settled upon the world. And the Valar called Fëanor to them and asked him to give up his Silmarils so that there might be light. But Fëanor would not. At that moment Morgoth attacked Fëanor's distant castle and took the jewels...
...ages and ages, a struggle went on between the Elvish princes and Morgoth's dark hordes. Again and again the Valar intervened to keep Middle-earth from destruction by Morgoth. But however much Morgoth was checked, there was yet always an evil and a darkness and pride and jealousy stirring some where upon Middle-earth...
...about the origins of Middle-earth will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own. Tolkien's familiar, deep-rooted sense of the unwinnable war between good and evil is also evident, along with a reverence for trees. Characteristically, dragons-those antique cruise missiles used by Morgoth-are plentiful, as are huge eagles, for rescuing heroes and depositing them safely on mountain tops...