#(also Daeron appears which is always a plus in my book)

[yellow-faerie]

In The Sacrifices of a Queen, is Morgoth more active or taking a different strategy? Or does he have a similar attitude around the kinslayings/Feanorian oath, and trust that the elves would do his job for him?

Hmmm this is a very good question - honestly I think he might have been more scared of the Fëanorians than of the Doriathrim, and so when he saw that Maedhros' forces were gathering after Melian's girdle fell, he decided that that would be the best time to strike (since Nimloth and Dior would be distracted by the sons of Fëanor)

Basically he didn't want to end up fighting the Fëanorians for the Silmaril since they had been becoming more fey and wild, and had become the most serious threat to his growing providence in the last few decades over the other peoples of Beleriand, so he was trying to get in there first (and almost succeeded, if not for Nimloth and Dior's quick thinking)