tolkienillustrations:The Battle of the Sudden Flame by Alan Lee“Then suddenly Morgoth sent for
tolkienillustrations:The Battle of the Sudden Flame by Alan Lee“Then suddenly Morgoth sent forth great rivers of flame that ran down swifter than Balrogs from Thangorodrim, and poured over all the plain… In front of that fire came Glaurung the golden, father of dragons, in his full might; and in his train were Balrogs, and behind them came the black armies of the Orcs in multitudes such as the Noldor had never before seen or imagined.”—Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin -- source link