In the First Age of Middle-Earth, tens of thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, six immense battles occurred between the Elves of Beleriand and the Dark Lord Morgoth. The fifth of these battles is one of the most unforgettable sagas in Tolkien's entire mythology, a conflict so momentous and so harrowing that it forever altered the future of Middle-Earth. This is the story of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad: the Battle of Unnumbered Tears.