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Sorry folks, I should have posted a smiley, that bit was a sort of joke :). I do challenge his logic there: the whole genocide of the Numenoreans is just an appalling concept. Honestly I think my own...

Whoah whoah.. what about the Easterlings and all the Men who fought for Morgoth in the War of Wrath? I guess "untermenschen" don't really count in that regard??

Aha! The continent is Aman, Valinor is only central Aman! A lore error by Ngugi! Stop the presses :D

JRR explicitly states the Valar faced "real peril", whether or not they would have "killed"...

If I recall, all that Tolkien says re the original war is that the Valar where hard-pressed, and then Tulkas arrived, and then they won. From the duel at Utumno I figured he alone was able to beat...

Now, see, that's in (apparent) contradiction with the Silmarillion, where, in the siege of Utumno, Tulkas wrestles with Melkor "as the champion of the Valar", and throws him on his face. And this is...

Yup. Morgoth is the "most powerful" of the Valar (at least at start), but he gets knocked about by Tulkas. I always kind of imagine Tulkas just holding Melkor by the collar and slapping him across...