Cthulhu vs. Melkor

Cthulhu vs. Melkor is a What-If? Death Battle by I'm Lynda. It features Cthulhu from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, and Melkor from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings books.

Description
It’s Lovecraft versus Tolkien when we bring Cthulhu and Melkor together and make them fight!

Interlude
Velma Dinkley: Dark gods, evil reality warpers that make life a living hell for mere mortals.

Egon Spengler: Like Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft’s Great Dreamer.

Velma: And, like Melkor, J.R.R. Tolkien’s darkest of dark lords.

Egon: But, what happens when they come together?

Velma: I’m Velma Dinkley, of Mysteries, Inc.

Egon: And I am Dr. Egon Spengler, of the Ghostbusters

Velma: We are serving as special guest hosts for this very special Death Battle.

Egon: We are experts in the field of the occult, and that is why we have been brought in to analyze the combatants, their weapons, armor and skills, and determine who would win a Death Battle.

Pre-Fight
In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu lay dreaming.

And as he lay drowned and putrefying, his servants paraded around him, wailing and howling and groaning his praises.

And in his rabid dreams he saw death and madness and destruction. And in his maniacal dreams he smelt blood and decay. And in his demented dreams he heard...a dim, small voice.

His smallest finger moved, and all R’lyeh went quiet.

* * *

In the Nethermost Hall of mighty Angband, the dread lord Melkor sat upon his basalt throne. The Silmarils shown brightly in his iron crown, their light casting foul shadows on the walls, as his servants gibbered and hooted and howled his praises.

But Melkor sat silent as his eyes gazed far, into the darkness beyond Arda. There, in the darkness beyond darkness, something moved, and the void roiled and bubbled.

And Melkor stared at the darkness beyond darkness, and his thoughts were troubled.