Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-25597877-20141201215225/@comment-25684944-20141207092413

Sinthoniel wrote:

Longerbeard wrote: Then you'll need to begin with a movie of people creating Middle-Earth and start from the beginning You don't seem to know how Arda was created. Here a short overview:

Eru Iluvatar created the Ainur. He taught them to make music and from the music, the world was formed. Some of the Ainur entered the world. They are known as Valar and the lesser Maiar. These Valar formed the land on preparation of the arrival of elves (the first born children of Eru) and humans (the second children of Eru). Melkor (later called Morgoth) was the most powerful Valar but he claimed to rule over Arda although Manwe (the wisest of the Valar) was the ruler. Melkor started to destroy everything that the other Valar created and hated them all. The First Age began with the awakening of the elves. But before the Valar discovered that the elves awakened, Melkor caught some of them and tortured them; these turned to orcs. The Valar offered the elves to live in an, the realm of the Valar out of the reach of Melkor. Some elves refused, these were the green-elves (and later wood-elves) or dark-elves (Moriquendi) because they have never seen the light of Aman. From the elves that traveled to Aman, some returned later, most notably the Noldor led by Feanor, creator of the Silmarils that were stolen by Morgoth.

I could carry on forever but I shouldn't write the whole Silmarrillion down here... I have a very nice uncle who told me exactly the same yesterday.....