He was a Maiar of Aulë, which was the Vala of Crafting, so prodigy is probably underselling it. As a side note, considering what happened with both Saruman and Sauron, I would say Aulë was probably a very shitty boss.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

He probably was - which is why they prefer to promote shitty engineers to management, usually.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Aule also created the dwarves against the explicit orders of Iluvatar, so it kinda runs in the family. ~~Wasn't Morgoth a Maiar of Aule too?~~ Nope, a Valar. Thanks for the correction!

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Morgoth was a Vala, probably even the most powerful among them.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He turned a park and a forest into a huge industrial complex, making an fully equipped army in a few years.

From an engineering point of view this is impressive.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He'd been amassing that army since 2953, and only revealed his true self by going sicko mode on Gandalf in 3018.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the details, I've look for it but could not find how long it took him.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The Orthanc wiki page. I basically lucked out, search engines suck these days

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

You know, I'm something of a wizard myself