Fall of Melkor: Battle of the Powers | Silmarillion Documentary

after the destruction of the two lamps the original light sources the symmetry of Arda was reformed by Massive energy the weight of the lamps broke continents and their fire burned the land The Valor did what they could to hinder the damage as melkor and his hosts fled back to utumno then the Valar left Middle Earth and started to build their new home in Amman at that time they raised the pylori the tallest of all mountains as a defense against the evil of melkor for almost half a millennium the world was left in the dark then Johanna sang into existence the two trees as a source of light behind pylori into the West the light of the trees Shone amid Valley but the narrow Coast beneath their Eastern feet was in darkness as was the rest of Arda [Music] this allowed melkor to expand his power in the darkness he raised the towers of mist to hinder oromay's travels in Middle Earth always fearing the white Rider near the Northwestern shores of the great sea he built angband the iron prison as an outlying Fortress and Armory for utomno his Great Northern Citadel to guard the range of the iron mountains as a first defense against a possible attack from the West it was commanded by mayron his Lieutenant knowing that the time of Awakening of the children of iluvatar was near Vada began the greatest work made by The Valor since they're coming into order taking the Dew from the Vats of talparium she created new and brighter Stars she set many individual stars but also constellations a long time was taken for this labor and once it was finished the elves awoke in quivianin and they beheld the Stars [Music] they called themselves quandy which means speaker or those who speak with voices for upon arising they met no other living thing that spoke or sang for this Vada was the Vala most loved and revered by the elves evil had spread in Middle Earth the existence of the elves was first spotted by melkor and as they were closest he struck the first blow monsters were spotted in the woods near the Waters of Awakening and indeed the most ancient songs of the elves of which Echoes are remembered still in the west tell of the Shadow shapes that walked in the hills and the dark Riders upon his Wild Horse relax [Music] it is no coincidence that the shape of Darkness as a black Horseman hunted them for the dark lord had cunningly sent his servants as Black Riders hoping that the elves would get scared and run away if they stumbled upon a great Rider of the Valor those who wandered too far from their lands were captured and taken to autumno there in his utmost contempt to create life they were corrupted Through Torture into servants bred solely for Warfare elves became an abominable race Of Orcs [Music] tortured and mutilated there is a legend that they are bred from a stone of the Subterranean Heats and slime [Music] defiled by melkor's sorcery Ox lived underground in the end of the world where they began multiplying over time melkor had perfected his breeding embodying many different subspecies but when the third of nahar's hooves was heard in Middle Earth and the sound of the Great Horn of valoroma echoed in the Hills all evil fled and melkor himself trembled hidden in his and when Aroma finally found the elves during his hunting those who weren't scared saw that the great rider was no shape out of Darkness Elder he named them people of the stars and asked them to return with him to valinor for their protection but while the majority of them agreed some refused in fear and it came to pass that oromay returned with the elves willing to leave with him ingwe finway and Elway served as their ambassadors they returned three years later to persuade the others to come to Amman thus the great March happened it was the journey that the elves known as the Eldar took from quiviano to valinor the Valar were now made aware of Orcs their creation was seen as the worst imaginable offense under the Council of manworth the Valor marched in force with the aim to end melkor's authority over Middle Earth the hosts of the West confronted the army of melkor in the northwest of Middle Earth in what was called the battle of the powers foreign the first victory of the hosts of the West Was Swift as the Valar passed over Middle Earth they raised Unbound without much difficulty however unbanned underground vaults and caverns were left relatively intense Intel on Slaughter as they swiftly moved on to melkor's primary stronghold of utongo The Valor then set a guard over kuviani but the Servants of melkor fled before them to the north and thus began the siege of utumna long and Grievous was the besieging countless battles were fought after many years the gates of utumba were broken and its halls unroofed and melkor took refuge in the uttamus pit thus toolcasts the Valiant champion of the Valor had finally found him the land was broken before them but in the end he chained him with angina forged by aule himself a chain of power strong enough to endure the dark lord a great Cloud Rose from the wreckage while the stars were hidden in poisons funerals The Valor failed to discover some of the deepest Chambers under the ruins of the North some balrogs and other evil creatures hid there and others dispersed to the far edges of the Earth [Music] melco's Lieutenant mayron was never captured the one who in later ages of the world was known as Sauron are the Lord of the Rings melkor was captured Chained and imprisoned for three ages of the world although the elves didn't participate in the war melkor never forgot that his downfall was for their sake locations [Music] [Music]

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Length: 8min 58sec (538 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 30 2023