#westernesse

The fact that as early as the frickin Barrow-Wights chapter of Fellowship there's hints of what he'll do and become makes my brain snap crackle and pop like nobody's business. What do you MEAN he's the only one who recalls out loud the death of a Westernesse warrior at the hands of the Carn Dǔm (Witch King of Angmar's soldiers) when he was taken/possessed by the Wights?! I mean, they all get those Westernesse daggers from Tom but only Merry recalls a vision before that.

Then of course he's the one with a special interest in Hobbit history in Rohan and Gondor (y'know Gondor where the Men of Westernesse share a heritage with Aragorn!!) like??? AAAAH!

The reason Morgoth always, always loses no matter what isn’t that Eru made the world too resilient for him to damage and break - every single particle of matter in the setting has some of Melkor’s Will behind and inside it - the reason is that Morgoth’s evil DECAYS AT A FASTER RATE THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD. The world never heals from the evils he and his agents introduce, they just crumble faster than the norm is in Arda Marred. People killed are replaced by others and in time their descendants forget them. Ruined lands are abandoned for new ones until they recover or are removed entirely. Orcs are a regional threat when they have a powerful will driving them; otherwise they (a ruined and stumped form of life) seem mostly capable of being raiders, which, fair enough, it isn’t exactly a picnic to be attacked by a warband in the middle of the night, but it isn’t exactly a unified army intent on conquest either. Humans are corruptible, but also tend to corrupt things on their own - how long does it take after Sauron’s fall for the various evil cults he inspired to turn on eachother? Numenor lasted for millennia, but the more they turned to evil the quicker the rot started setting in (I don’t think Eru destroyed them because they set foot on Aman, but rather because the Valar weren’t doing their jobs as rulers of the World). Saruman likewise spirals out of control and ends up murdered by his own henchman, with Isengard, Rohan, Dunland and the Shire all recovering in a generation or two.

Basically, this is what I think it means that Morgoth and Evil are self-defeating in the Tolkien-verse.

EDIT this is basically Eru and Morgoth’s interactions

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Silmarillion-The Downfall of Numenor by morgaer on deviantart

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@oneringnet‘s favorite locations event: Númenor