Eä's Redemption by AaronAzrael  

Of the coming of the Elves and the captivity of Melkor 9

Melkor affronted the strike of the Valar
in the northwest end of Middle Earth,
where everything faced destruction of war,
luckily, the Good force defeated those adverse.

The armies of Melkor fled to Utumno,
the servants of the evil lord hid in the thereabout dens,
and what happened next - who knows?
The Valar crossed entire Middle Earth; on Cuiviénen

they put Guards, and the Quendi witnessed not
what happened after in the Terrible Battle Almigthy,
save for the fact that the land underneath shook,
with waters raising high, with fires celestial, mighty.

The ambush of Utumno was long and tiresome,
many strategies applied, while preserving the balance
of the Absolute force, which surely requires some
knowledge on how to invest alchemy's lawful potency.

The forms of Middle Earth got reshaped.
The Vast Sea that separated it from Aman widened,
the wild waves digged a new gulf, escavated
in the south; and north's strait Helcaraxë cut the land.

It was exactly in this newly formed narrow of Helcaraxë
where Aman and Middle Earth drew nearest to each other;
among all these greatest was the Bay of Balar, the entrance
of the river of Sirion (from Dorthonion) to the sea there.

All the northern lands were made waste back then,
for there were dug the bottomless Utumno pits and wells,
full of fires and countless hosts of the servants
of Melkor, who turned the place to absolute hell.

At last! The gates of Utumno collapsed,
the halls of Melkor definitely crumbled,
so the fallen one hid in the deepest well, trapped,
and finally Tulkas knocked him down, humbled.

Angainor, the great unbreakable chain,
forged by the Vala Aulë to restrain fully Melkor,
was used by the Elohim to captivate the bane
and Peace on Earth reigned, remembering its lore.