Melkor listened to each word carefully and almost smirked, yet his frown remained.
”You have chosen wisely. Of course, anyone with half a mind would make that choice.” His words were true and cut deep.
”I know you think of me as some sort of monster. A creator of woes and an embodiment of evil, Iver. But I was not always this way. Long ago, I was created by a being known to you as Eru Illúvatar. He was kind, sweet, all merciful, all knowing, the allfather and creator. To lesser beings he is the sole God of this world. He created life using a flame. The Eternal Flame. Now, you see, Iver, Eru’s first creation was me. I was his firstborn. His oldest son. Then followed my brothers and sisters, the Valar and Maiar, the Ainur. Eru used us to fight his own wars, to sing his own songs, to create his own world.”
“He was great in might and power and truthfully, I must admit, in those early days that he started life, there were some great moments. He created something beautiful. Arda. And despite his cruelty, his complete lack of irony and his hypocritical attitudes, he was a decent father. To you. His ‘children’. He completely ignored the Ainur. He abandoned his firstborn. Me. After he had used me for his own purposes, of course.”
“Though, that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that not only did he abandon his first son, he then proceeded to shun him publicly, to berate me. Why? Because I was just like the old stubborn bastard. The key difference being that I was better than him. I wanted to create my own life. I wanted to be just like him. To be my farther’s son and heir. Instead, he shunned me and cast me down. He placed Manwë, my younger, dutiful, pathetic brother as his heir and left the running of his world to him and all the other worthless brats that you know to be the Valar. They don’t care about the world. They don’t care about the Children of Illúvatar. Disease and destruction wreak havoc across Middle-Earth and no one bats an eye. Oh, but, when I show my face, it’s heretical. It’s debauchery. I’m some sort of a disease to them.”
“They fear what is more powerful than them. What they cannot understand. Unlike all the Valar, I was the most like Eru. I just wanted to create, Iver. I never wanted to war or kill or torture or hurt anyone. But imagine. When you’re trapped in this world and forced to do nothing but serve your younger, dumber, more submissive siblings. One tends to loose oneself in hate. I don’t hate the Valar, not all of them. Their my family. And I love them. But I have been betrayed, Iver. By my father. By my brothers and sisters. By my family. I am labeling as evil because Eru was too cowardly to share the Eternal Flame. Had he given it to me, none of this would have happened. But here we are. Millions of years later. The Children of Illúvatar and the Ainur killing one another because of the misdeeds done to them. I’m not evil, Iver. I don’t hurt to hurt. I don’t seek revenge. I seek justice. I seek my right to create. I seek peace. Once I’m done destroying this world and defeating the Valar who don’t step aside, I’ll be powerful enough to challenge Eru himself. And I will defeat him. By pen or sword, he will fall. I’m not the villain, Iver. Eru is. And I’m the hero of this story.”
“Once I have the Eternal Flame I shall recreate Arda in my own image. Without its faults. Without the corruption of mankind, the stubbornness of the dwarves, the spite of the elves. I will create a world without faults for all to enjoy and live in. A world of true peace. Think about it, Iver. If Eru truly cared about you, about his ‘Children’, about his world, wouldn’t he have interfered now? I can say this without a doubt. Eru is the only one powerful enough to kill me. Yet, he does not. And why is that? Because deep down, in his wretched black heart, Eru knows that I can create a better world. That I was right. That I am better than him.” He paused and spoke only after Iver could digest this information.
”Now, you shall be introduced to some of your new acquaintances. I am fairly certain you have met a few.”
The Maia guard picked Iver up, and with less hostility, moved him along to the left, veering him towards the dimly lit halls and down into the depths of the dungeons...
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”RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
Glorfindel, Zaro and the other ten elves heard the screech and were hurtled into one another, their ears bleeding further and becoming concussed. The scream ended abruptly.
The Giant’s head slid off its neck as Sigeric’s knife cleanly cut through it. The last Giant standing behind it reached into its nape and grabbed something before hightailing it out of view, running down the opposite side of the hill. Thoruk’s lightning just missed them, hitting the body of the dead Giant after Sigeric had killed it.
“Dude, look.” Marco pointed at Dimitri.
The Armoured on the other hand, caught the Serpent and smashed Dimitri’s head into the muddy ground. As Dimitri opened his jaws to bite his fingers, the Armoured smashed his face in, denting the hardened facial armor, punched Dimitri several times, grasped him by the collarbone and cracked his neck by smashing it into his own chest then took off, retreating back up the hill with both the Dwarf and Serpent Giants in hand.
“Fack...Isn’t that the one from Dale?” Marco asked Thoruk.
After this entire ordeal, Dimitri would come to develop ‘Armoured Trauma’ from the sheer measure of rape that he had received.
Sigeric’s chord was only ten meters and he could not reach Dimitri in time as the fight with the Armoured Giant was occurring over twenty meters away from him. He watched as the Forochelrim was brutalized, his Giant’s face being ground up into mush before the bastard snapped his neck with a loud CRACK. Now he was running away.
Out of the smoke and steam from the Warrior Giant’s body, Ha’zi saw a tall shape appear, walking through it, limping. One arm grasping a firework, the other cleanly ripped off.
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Turin dropped the Valar-blade as Pyrus’ head connected with his arm, violently. The man punched the Maia square in the face with his left hand and before Pyrus knew it something else hit him.
Blood tricked down his neck and he felt another smack before it all went dark.
Eonwë had taken Pyrus’ mace and beat him with it. Once, twice, and watched him fall. Túrin dislodged himself from the body and ran over to the Valar-blade, preparing to stab him and finish it all.
”No. Only one person has to die today. And that is Morgoth.” Eonwë told him. They had a brief argument before the two walked back over to Cardiloc, picked up Elladan’s broken body and hauled aboard the choo choo drake.
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”Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because we’re dangerous and could potentially break out? Never occurred to you, huh? He doesn’t need your love or your trust. Sauron just uses you, numpty.”
Miriel tried to keep her voice down as there appeared to be some noise coming from the end of the hall.
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The ride was awkward and warm and it took them another thirteen minutes to reach the Morannon.
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