Dates

The first Enemy, Melkor was expelled from the world in I 590; the second Enemy, Sauron, ruled c. II 1000 to II 3441, and from c. III 1000 until his final downfall on 25 March III 3019

Origins

Melkor was the greatest of the Ainur; Sauron was a Maia corrupted to Melkor's service from the earliest times

Race

Divisions

Settlements

Melkor ruled from Utumno and later Angband; Sauron ruled from Barad-dûr in Mordor and Dol Guldur in Mirkwood

Title of

Melkor and later Sauron

Other names

Morgoth was also referred to as the Dark Enemy, Enemy of Men and Elves and Great Enemy; Sauron was also titled the Nameless Enemy and One Enemy

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Enemy

A term for either of the Dark Lords

Years of the TreesFirst AgeISecond AgeIIThird AgeIIIFourth AgeIV

A common term for either Morgoth or Sauron, or their forces.

Morgoth	The original Enemy was the dark Vala Melkor. After his murder of Finwë and theft of the Silmarils, he was named Morgoth, 'Dark Enemy', by Finwë's son Fëanor, and was known by that name ever afterwards.
Sauron	Sauron was a servant of the first Enemy during the Elder Days, but after the fall of his master Morgoth, he took on the mantle of Dark Lord and Enemy of Elves and Men. The Free Peoples were reluctant to speak his true name, and thus he was often referred to simply as 'the Enemy'.

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