3/6/2024 0 Comments Angband ringil forums![]() But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice. And he issued forth clad in black armour and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable on-blazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. But he could not now deny the challenge before the face of his captains for the rocks rang with the shrill music of Fingolfin’s horn, and his voice came keen and clear down into the depths of Angband and Fingolfin named Morgoth craven, and lord of slaves. That was the last time in those wars that he passed the doors of his stronghold, and it is said that he took not the challenge willingly for though his might was greatest of all things in this world, alone of the Valar he knew fear. Thus he came alone to Angbands gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. He passed over Dor-nu-Fauglith like a wind amid the dust, and all that beheld his onset fled in amaze, thinking that Oromë himself was come: for a great madness of rage was upon him, so that his eyes shone like the eyes of the Valar. Then Fingolfin beheld (as it seemed to him) the utter ruin of the Noldor, and the defeat beyond redress of all their houses and filled with wrath and despair he mounted upon Rochallor his great horse and rode forth alone, and none might restrain him. Now news came to Hithlum that Dorthonion was lost and the sons of Finarfin overthrown, and that the sons of Fëanor were driven from their lands. Here is what The Silmarillion says of Fingolfin’s battle with Morgoth: That an Elf and a mortal Man could injure Morgoth in his self-incarnated form suggests that, yes, he might have been slayable. Along with Beren, Fingolfin is the only non-Ainurian enemy of Morgoth to cause him physical harm (unless one assumes that Ungoliant was not originally one of the Ainur). Q: Could Fingolfin Have Defeated Morgoth in Mortal Combat?ĪNSWER: Fingolfin holds the distinction of being the only Elf to do single combat with Morgoth. ![]()
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