Is Melkor Mount Doom?

Melkor created Mount Doom in the First Age, and the name “Mordor” may have been given to the surrounding land before Sauron settled there because of its eruptions. When Sauron chose the land of Mordor as his dwelling-place in the Second Age, Orodruin was the reason for his choice.

Who was the oldest man in LOTR?

Tom Bombadil
Tom Bombadil is the oldest, as are other Maiar and Varda listed above. The Ents came from the thoughts of Yvanna (a Varda), who is the same age as Tom Bombadil. Also, the Ents were not resistant to Saruman’s evil, but Tom Bombadil was unaffected by Sauron’s evil ring.

Which is the youngest race of Middle-earth?

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid races. Men are described as the second or younger people, created after the Elves, and differing from them in being mortal.

Who is the oldest elf in Middle-earth?

He was one of the wisest and most foresighted of the Elves, and by the Second Age, one of the oldest known Elves in Middle-earth, to remain so throughout that age and into the Fourth Age as well….

How old was the oldest dwarf LOTR?

There are very few Dwarves with known age at the time of their death and most of the ones that are known died in battle. The longest living Dwarf was Dwalin who lived to become 340 years old, 80 years older than the second oldest Dwarf.

Is Tom Bombadil or Treebeard older?

Now, we know that Tom Bombadil predates the elves, and the trees themselves (which definitely existed before the ents.) So he’s definitely older than Treebeard.

Who is older Treebeard or Gandalf?

I was re-reading the Two Towers and Gandalf said this about Treebeard: ” Treebeard is Fangorn, the guardian of the forest; he is the oldest of the Ents, the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-Earth”.

Where is morgoth now?

Morgoth remains in the Void, watched by Eärendil and unable to return to Arda as long as the Valar maintain their power over it. However, the lies he put in the hearts of the Children of Ilúvatar still remain and will create their evil results till the end of days.

Is Tom Bombadil a Valar?

While it is conceivable that his personality could have reversed in these ways, there is no reason to think that it did. There is other evidence that Bombadil is not one of the Valar. In “In the House of Tom Bombadil”, Tom says of himself, “He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights.

Is Tom Bombadil stronger than Sauron?

Sauron is all-powerful. Unless he is destroyed he is unbeatable and unstoppable. The destruction of the ring (and Sauron’s native power which is VERY considerable) is the only way to defeat him. Tom Bombadill is not so much powerful as outside the power game that is being played out in the war of the ring.

Who is striders mother?

GilraenAragorn / Mother