771 CE - Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother & co-regent, Charlemagne, sole-ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.
Photo of the Day
Large Hadron Collider tunnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Quote of the Day
"Money, with all its colorlessness and indifference, becomes the common denominator of all values; irreparably it hollows out the core of things, their individuality, their specific value, and their incomparability". --Georg Simmel
Song of the Day
Artist - EMF
Album - Schubert Dip
Film of the Day
Director - John Sturges
Starring - Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland
Wiki of the Day
Morgoth Bauglir ([ˈmorɡoθ ˈbau̯ɡlir]; originally Melkor [ˈmelkor]) is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium. He is the main antagonist of The Silmarillion, figures in The Children of Húrin, and is mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings.
Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur, but turned to darkness and became Morgoth, the definitive antagonist of Arda from whom all evil in the world of Middle-earth ultimately stems. Sauron, one of the Maiar of Aulë, betrayed his kind and became Morgoth's principal lieutenant.
Morgoth was the principal agent of evil in The Silmarillion, and his influence lingered in the world even after he was cast from the world into the outer void. Morgoth's example provided later ages a cautionary tale against pride, wrath, envy, lust for power, and greed — and the destruction these visit upon oneself and others.
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