Originally posted by Thorondor
Exa's wrath will be terrible now *takes cover and hides*
Threw... away... the... second... best... book... ever... oh... my... god... *dies of heart attack* (and a really bad heart attack... I already die of heart attacks when I see that somebody opens a copy of the sil more than 50degrees 😖 )
but - nice texts on the previous pages 🙂 *reads*
Gothmog was not indestructible. He took part in (and indeed presumably led) Morgoth's deadly surprise assault on the Hidden City of Gondolin. In the square of the King in the heart of the city, he came upon the Elf-lord Ecthelion of the Fountain. They fought a great duel, and in the end Gothmog and Ecthelion slew one another. So ended one of the most feared denizens of the pits of Angband.
..Just another noldor biting the dust, those noldor seem so frail, lord of the fountain, as if he could actually take on a dwarf or something tough, prissy little fairy elf
Umm... the elf's name wasn't Ecthelion, it was turgon, father of Idril who slew Gothmog with Glamdrig.
no it did not say that
it always states that sauron was the second
what would be the point in having sauron as a villain in lotr later, you might as well have had gothmog do it
sauron is said to be his mightiest
greatest
'only less evil than melkor in that he served another, before rising again like a great shadow of morgoth'
Sauron I am confused. I reread the Silmarillion and in one passage Tolkien stated that Gothmog was Melkor's mightiest and most fearsome servant. In another it said Sauron was, 'only less evil than melkor in that he served another, before rising again like a great shadow of morgoth'
I am confused. Maybe Chris edited it wrong.
Originally posted by Gandalf Of Lore
Umm... the elf's name wasn't Ecthelion, it was turgon, father of Idril who slew Gothmog with Glamdrig.
It was Ecthelion who killed him (after 4 or 5 other Belrog he killed...)
Turgon stayed in his tower and died in it when it was burned (nice passage in the lost tales)
And maybe that refers to different times - I mean Gothmog as Morgoths son was surely very fearsome n scary, but Sauron was his greatest and mightiest servant... and the "evillest".