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Death on the pale horse.
Gustave doré, from The Doré Bible gallery, Philadelphia, not dated.
(Source: archive.org)
The Delving of Utumno
Now Melkor began the delving and building of a vast fortress, deep under the Earth, beneath dark mountains where the beams of Illuin were cold and dim. That fortress was named Utumno. And though the Valar knew naught of it yet, nevertheless the evil of Melkor and the bligth of his hatred flowed out thence, and the Spring of Arda was marred.
— The Silmarilion | Quenta Silmarillion: Chapter 1, Of the Begining of Days
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