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Episode three. The Siege of Angband finally breaks and it all goes up in smoke (ha ha). Morgoth has spent 400 years building dragons and lava behind his gates while the elves got comfy, and one midwinter night he lets it all out at once. Ard-galen goes up in flames and a fully mature Glaurung comes out to play.
I go through the battle bit by bit, and it is frigging big. Barahir drags Finrod out of the Fen of Serech and gets a ring for his trouble, which ends up as an engagement ring thousands of years later. Then Fingolfin completely loses it and rides to Angband on his own to fight Morgoth and it is amazing.
After that Sauron takes the original Minas Tirith and fills it with werewolves, and I try to squeeze Beren and Lúthien into a fraction of the time it deserves. We cover so much of the First Age now that I am struggling to fit it all here.
A Drunk History Of Middle-earth