Event

The Shaping of Arda

The Valar labour to order the world while Melkor strives to undo their work.

Supplementary writingsFrom posthumously published works, notes, drafts or appendices.

Date: Before the First Age
Age: Before the Ages
Type: Creation
Certainty: Unknown

The event

The Valar labour to order the world while Melkor strives to undo their work.

Consequences

Arda is marred from the outset; the long conflict between the Valar and Melkor is set in motion.

Participants

Morgoth

Morgoth

The first Dark Lord, a fallen Vala whose discord marred Arda and whose wars shaped the First Age.

Sources

The Silmarillion · 1977
Posthumously edited. Contains the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power.