It was more of an invasion by the Valar and a brutal war which saw the Northwestern part of Middle-Earth destroyed. I would not have called the War of Wrath a "work" of Melkor. The quote above mentions "devastating works". Karen Wynn Fonstad, in The Atlas of Middle-Earth says this:Īlthough no text supports my conclusions, Mordor might have appeared as part of a worldwide upheaval during the destruction of the Iron Mountains in the area where the Great Gulf partially drained the Inland Sea - the volcanic processes in the formation of that land would allow relatively rapid mountain-building processes. Therefore, Mordor must have been a side-effect of the war. The water drains during the War of Wrath, which ended the First age. Its exact length is unclear because Tolkien never really settled on a date, but we know it cannot start before the Elves are born and that it ends after the War of Wrath, when Morgoth is captured and removed from Arda.ĭuring the whole First Age, the area where Mordor is situated is underwater. The First Age is longer than the two other. There are no other texts about the creation of Mordor, but we can piece its history from various sources with a few educated guesses. The History of Middle-Earth Volume 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth, note 14, p. were a relic of the devastating works of Melkor in the long First Age. This is a footnote from one of Tolkien's late texts:
Mordor was probably created during the War of Wrath
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