Gothmog
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Elder Days - late First Age
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Among the servants of Morgoth who bear names, , the greatest was the dread spirit known as Gothmog, the Lord of Balrogs, whom the Eldar feared to name, calling him instead "the Scourge of Angband."
Gothmog (S."Hate-strife" ;Or.:"Voice of the Master" Q.:"Kosomoko" or "Kosomot") was the Lord of the Balrogs and the High Captain of Angband, serving as one of the most formidable lieutenants under the Dark Lord Morgoth during the First Age of Middle-earth. All Balrogs are terrifying and awesome, so it is virtually impossible to adequately describe Gothmog, the most powerful of all the Balrogs that ever burned in Arda. Gothmog's presence was so overwhelming that few could stand before him without succumbing to terror and he was of such might and majesty that a persistent rumor that has echoed down the Ages has portrayed him as the son of Morgoth Himself— an unlikely thought at best. In any case, Gothmog was responsible for a great part of the misery of Arda in in the First Age. Many were the Elven heroes who fell to his whip and blade before he was killed in mortal combat with Ecthelion of the Fountain in the siege of Gondolin in First Age 511.
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- Black Axe
- Firespeaker - Fiery Whip
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- Gothombauk
- Kalimbo
- Kosmoko
- Kosomok
- Kosomoko (C)
- Kosomot (C)
- Náron (N)
References[]
- MERP:Creatures of Middle-Earth
- MERP:Lords of Middle-earth Vol I: The Immortals