*** The first time he knocks down the Two Lamps originally set to illuminate Middle-earth with EndlessDaytime, which [[ColonyDrop alters the ''geography'']]. The [[FantasyPantheon Ainur]] are the only sapients existing then (This was before the Awakenings of Elves and Men), and they end up moving to the continent Aman. On Middle-earth, life only survives because the Ainu Yavanna puts some of it into hibernation until the much later creation of the Sun. (Creator/JRRTolkien, realizing this made Middle-earth uninhabitable for the Elves who lived there in the Eternal Night, planned to radically change the whole cosmology and prehistory to make the Sun much older, but never wrote a finished "Round World" history.)
*** Later, after the Awakening of the Elves, Morgoth and [[EldritchAbomination Ungoliant]] destroy the Two Trees which the Ainur had created to light Aman, and spread clouds of "Unlight" which hide even the stars. The effects probably wouldn't have been quite so bad if Morgorth hadn't previously sowed dissent among the Noldor, and/or hadn't [[spoiler: stolen the Silmarils, the only things that could have resuscitated the Trees.]] During the period of darkness following that, we have, in short order: the rebellion of the Noldor, Elves slaughtering each other in the first Kinslaying, the declaration of the Doom of the Noldor, Noldor betraying each other left and right, and the deaths of countless more Elves crossing the Grinding Ice (after which the Moon and Sun rise for the first time).
*** Morgoth responded to the creation of the Moon and Sun by covering his Hell-fortress is volcanic clouds of toxic fumes, and then started spreading the fumes southward to blot out the sunlight over Hithlum and Beleriand.

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*** The first time he knocks down the Two Lamps originally set to illuminate Middle-earth with EndlessDaytime, which [[ColonyDrop alters the ''geography'']]. The [[FantasyPantheon Ainur]] are the only sapients existing then (This was before the Awakenings of Elves and Men), and they end up moving to the continent Aman. On Middle-earth, life only survives because the Ainu Yavanna puts some of it into hibernation until the much later creation of the Sun. [[note]]Creator/JRRTolkien, realizing this made Middle-earth uninhabitable for the Elves, Ents, and Dwarves who lived there during the darkness, planned to radically change the whole cosmology and prehistory to make the Sun much older, but never got beyond drafts.[[/note]]
*** Later, after the Awakening of the Elves, Morgoth and [[EldritchAbomination Ungoliant]] destroy the Two Trees which the Ainur had created to light Aman, and spread clouds of "Unlight" which hide even the stars. The effects probably wouldn't have been quite so bad if Morgorth hadn't previously sowed dissent among the High Elves, and/or hadn't [[spoiler: stolen the Silmarils, the only things that could have resuscitated the Trees.]] During the period of darkness following that, we have, in short order: the rebellion of the Noldor, Elves slaughtering each other in the first Kinslaying, the declaration of the Doom of the Noldor, Elves betraying each other left and right, and the deaths of countless more of them crossing the Grinding Ice (after which the Moon and Sun rise for the first time).
*** Morgoth responded to the creation of the Moon and Sun by covering his Hell-fortress in volcanic clouds of toxic fumes, and then started spreading the fumes southward to blot out the sunlight over Hithlum and Beleriand.

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