From Silmarillion to the Lord of the Rings

Three sagas which started

from the Timeless Halls

and continued in Middle Earth.

A never-ending story

of good and evil, light and dark, balance and imbalance, life and death, war and peace, and love and hate

among Men, Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves,

the Maia and Ainur.

One decision

can affect the outcome of another.

Heroes can fail in just one move.

But the story rolled on.

I. Of Ilúvatar and Melkor

Ilúvatar is the Great Persona

behind the creation of the World.

He created the Ainur, Maiar,

Elves, Men,

adopted the Dwarves

and Hobbits.

But with his creation,

an Ainu wanted

to surpass his creator.

Melkor is his name.

He corrupted creatures

in Middle Earth.

From making Balrogs to Orcs

and spreading evil in the world,

he believed in that cruel way of living.

But Ilúvatar never left

his Children to his hands.

II. The Valar vs. Melkor

Before the Children of Ilúvatar

wakes up,

the Valar dealed

with Melkor first.

If you were even in their shoes,

you would also be yelling at him with,

"I'm so done with you, you dimwit!"

But even if Melkor

is the strongest of the Ainur,

he's the weakest in morals and values.

He just thinks about himself

and what he can gain—

such a lonely life he had.

But the Valar has a good plan

for him to be subdued.

III. The Eldar, The Naugrim, and The Edain vs. Melkor/Morgoth

The Valar may have saved

the firstborn Children of Ilúvatar from harm

but as long as Melkor exists,

darkness lurks and lives.

The Elves may have been in bliss

even mingling with a Maiar

and marrying that same deity,

but it never lived long

because when the Silmarils

made by Fëanor

were robbed by Morgoth,

everything changed.

At this time, the first of the Dwarves

also woke up, living underneath

Middle Earth's rich caves.

And this started a friendship and rivalry

between the Firstborn Children of Ilúvatar and his adopted ones

made by Aulë, the Ainu of the Earth.

But chaos slowly grew in each soul

that stayed in Arda.

Sauron is one Morgoth's disciples

which stayed strong

and spread his lies to Middle Earth.

Even the first Men,

the Second Children of Ilúvatar,

who roamed

the vast lands of Middle Earth

had their share of being corrupted

by Morgoth's malevolence.

On the other hand,

Fëanor of the Elves

did not give up until

he had his jewels back.

He even involved his offsprings

to search for those shiny gems.

The first Silmaril was thrown

in the sky, staying there.

The second and third

was thrown in the sea

and in a fiery pit in the earth.

This also ends Melkor

or Morgoth's residency

in Middle Earth.

The Valar threw him in the Void

to make him realize his mistakes.

III. Middle Earth vs. Sauron

In this stage, Middle Earth started

to be organized by its rulers

in every state.

Union between different groups

of people heightened in this era.

One group of Men

became the Númenoreans

and were powerful people.

They also had ups and downs

in leading their people

yet the most dire downfall

in their history

is when Sauron infiltrated

and corrupted the minds

of the greatest Men

living in Middle Earth.

The other races

also fell to Sauron's words of evil—

the reason why the Rings

were made in this age, too.

"Three Rings for the Elven-kings

under the sky"—

the only rings Sauron never possessed,

and which Celebrimbor

made without any help

to preserve the Elven domains

and help to ward off evil.

But they still have

a bit of a link

to the One Ring

until it would be wrecked.

"Seven for the Dwarf-lords

in their halls of stone"—

greed consumed the Dwarven lords

for they have a tough tolerance

to Sauron's evil whispers.

But they were still

changed for the worse

which made Sauron's plan work.

"Nine for Mortal Men

doomed to die"—

since they were the weakest

of all the people of Middle Earth,

they became the Nazgûl,

phantoms for spreading darkness,

screeching and frightening people.

"One for the Dark Lord

on his dark throne

In the Land of Mordor

where the Shadows lie."

Sauron made this ring to:

rule them all that lives in Arda,

find them to corrupt their minds,

bring them all to give them misery,

"and in the darkness bind them."

Then in a war,

Isildur cut Sauron's finger

but he still kept the Ring

thinking it was essential

and important.

He was just being tricked

and corrupted

until it betrayed him

in the Disaster of the Gladden Fields

where it was lost.

But, Saruman who is Sauron's disciple

still remains dormant

to spread chaos.

III. Middle Earth vs. Saruman and the One Ring

After years of being hidden,

the One Ring is found

inside a fish caught by Stoor cousins Déagol and Sméagol

where Smeagol killed his cousin

and claimed the Ring for himself

as his birthday present.

As the Ring was in his possession,

it corrupted him into having Gollum,

a crazy evil identity created by the Ring which poisoned his mind.

One time when Gollum stayed

in the caverns of Misty Mountains,

he lost his "precious"

and was found by Bilbo Baggins.

The shrewd funny Hobbit

then used it to have advantage

over some situations.

Its power made him go invisible.

At first it helped him

during his journey

with the Durin Dwarves

but as he grew old, this began to corrupt him, too.

He even said that it made him

live longer yet become

"thin and stretched" in the process.

So Gandalf intervened

and helped with destroying it.

He said that it should be thrown

to Mt. Doom to destroy it.

In the Fellowship

that the races made

in Rivendell,

Frodo, Bilbo's nephew,

volunteered to take the Ring

to Mordor to be destroyed.

In this time,

Middle Earth met Saruman,

one of Sauron's cronies.

He made the journey

for Frodo and his friends

so difficult that one of the people

from their team died

because of the Ring

and the Orcs who hunted them.

Ringwraiths also made the trail

to Mordor seem like a hard task.

But it's fortunate for them

that their team gained friends

and allies along the way.

Aragorn gathered a lot of his kin,

even the ghosts who promised

to fight to take down the almost unbeatable evil.

And everyone took their part

to impart their abilities

to bring light back to Middle Earth.

Sam, Frodo's bestfriend,

also helped him to get rid of the Ring.

Unfortunately, Frodo

was impaired by the One Ring

when they reached Sammath Naur.

Luckily, Sméagol bit Frodo's finger

when he was being consumed

and it fell in the fires of Mt. Doom

with the Stoor calling it his precious.

The Ring was wrecked,

peace came back,

and this started the Fourth Age

where Elves started to diminish

and go to Valinor in the West,

and where Men reigned

in Middle Earth to vanquish

a New Shadow.