YMMV / The Fall of Númenor

• Fridge Brilliance: In the Legendarium, wicked beings suffer from Creative Sterility, becoming unable to make anything but corrupted, inferior copies of something which already exists. And indeed, Sauron's “Since I cannot win their army, I'll pretend I surrender so that they take me to their island, and then I'll corrupt everyone" is a combination of schemes used by Morgoth in a larger scale. Even Mordor and its tower Barad-dûr are lesser copies of Angband.

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