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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Gothmog was the Lord of Balrogs and the High-Captain of Angband, one of the chief servants of the Dark Lord Morgoth with a rank equal to that of Sauron. While he was not as powerful or cruel as the Dark Lords, he surpassed them in strategy and also in brute strength. He carried a black axe and fought in the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, where he mortally wounded Fëanor. He killed two Kings of the Ñoldor: Fëanor in the Dagor-nuin-Giliath, and Fingon in the Nirnaeth Arnoediad. In that same battle, he captured Húrin of Dor-Lomin, who had slain his personal body guard of Trolls, and brought him to Angband. He also led the assault on GondolinIn the fiction of J. Tolkien, Gondolin was a hidden city of the Elves founded by Turgon in the First Age. Its name is Sindarin for "Hidden Rock". As recounted in The Silmarillion the Vala Ulmo, the Lord of Waters, revealed the location of the Vale of Tuml and was there slain by Ecthelion of the FountainEcthelion of the Fountain is a fictional character from J. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Ecthelion was an Elf of Gondolin, leader of the People of the Fountain . He had the most beautiful voice and greatest musical talent of all the people of Gondol, a Ñoldorin Elf-lord.

In the earliest version of his mythology ( The Book of Lost TalesThe Book of Lost Tales is the title of the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. The Book of Lost Tales contains the first versions of the), Tolkien describes Gothmog as a son of Morgoth and the ogress Fluithuin, but the idea of the children of ValarTolkien's fantasy universe, Middle-earth, the Valar are the Powers of Arda who live on the Western continent of Aman. The Valar were the fourteen powerful spirits of the race of the Ainur who entered Arda after its creation to give order to the world and was abandoned in later writings.

In one of Tolkien's early Middle-earth writings, Lay of the Children of Húrin, "Lungothrin, Lord of Balrogs" is mentioned. It is not, however, certain if it was another name for Gothmog, or it simply meant "a Balrog lord". According to Christopher TolkienChristopher John Reuel Tolkien (born November 21, 1924) is best known as the son of author J. Tolkien, and as the editor of much of his father's posthumously published work. wrote a great deal of material connected to the Middle-earth mythos that was not, the latter is more probable, as the name Gothmog was mentioned in the earliest Middle-earth writings, as well as the final version of Tolkien's mythology.