Home / Morgoth Morgoth Featured Essays The Lord of the Rings Eärendil, Éowyn, and Prancing Ponies: Why Shawn Marchese Loves Middle-earth (and Arrakis, Prog, and Archaism) By Jeff LaSala November 20, 2023 Comment number: 0 Blog Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Philosophers and Plough-dwarves, Each Must Know His Part in The Nature of Middle-earth By Jeff LaSala September 16, 2021 Comment number: 29 Blog Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Tolkien’s Orcs: Boldog and the Host of Tumult By Jeff LaSala June 10, 2021 Comment number: 17 Blog Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Tolkien’s Orcs: The Din-horde of Morgoth By Jeff LaSala April 13, 2021 Comment number: 28 Blog Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Tolkien’s Dark Lords: Sauron, Dark Magic, and Middle-earth’s Enduring “Melkor-ingredient” By Jeff LaSala December 3, 2020 Comment number: 39 Blog Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Mortal Men Doomed to Die: The Giver of Gifts and the Wise-women of Middle-earth By Jeff LaSala September 10, 2020 Comment number: 23 Rereads and Rewatches Deep Delvings Into Middle-earth Mortal Men Doomed to Die: Death as a Gift Is Debatable in Middle-earth By Jeff LaSala February 24, 2020 Comment number: 45 Rereads and Rewatches Silmarillion Primer A Farewell to Kings: The Fall of Númenor By Jeff LaSala October 31, 2018 Comment number: 122 Rereads and Rewatches Silmarillion Primer Morgoth Is Rendered Null and Void In An All-Out War (of Wrath) By Jeff LaSala September 19, 2018 Comment number: 98 Rereads and Rewatches Silmarillion Primer Eärendil the Mariner and the Last Crusade (Against Morgoth) By Jeff LaSala September 5, 2018 Comment number: 114 Rereads and Rewatches Silmarillion Primer When Tuor Met Ulmo, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Gondolin Fall By Jeff LaSala August 22, 2018 Comment number: 103 Rereads and Rewatches Silmarillion Primer The Tragical Misery Tour (of Húrin) and the Return of the Sons (and Jewel) of Fëanor By Jeff LaSala August 8, 2018 Comment number: 74 1 2 3