BTW, I liked this picture better:
http://www.tednasmith.com/silmarillion/TN-Fingon_and_Gothmog-Web.jpg
]]>The original Gothmog was lord of the Balrogs; he was one of Morgoth’s most terrible servants, Marshal of the hosts of Angband, and the commander in all of the great battles with the Noldorin. (Sauron, for his part, mainly operated as a necromancer, rather than as a captain of physical forces in battle.) Gothmog slew Fëanor in the Battle Under the Stars, slew Fingon and captured H?@c3;ba;rin at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, and finally led the sack of Gondolin, where he was slain by (and slew) Ecthelion of the Fountain in single combat in the square of the King.
In the Third Age, Gothmog (the one I’m referring to) was the name of the second-in-command of the armies of Minas Morgul (under the Witch-King) at the battle of Pelennor Fields. He’s only mentioned briefly by name and not described in the book of The Return of the King. In Peter Jackson’s movie, he gets a fair amount of screen time, and is depicted as a Morgul-Orc (pictured here), who I think happens to bear an uncanny resemblance in both appearance and manner to John McCain.
I think that the proper URI for bringing this particular case before Nerd Court would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gothmog_%28Third_Age%29.
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