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the mind of Iluvatar, whose labour lay elsewhere and in other
regions and histories of the Great Tale, amid stars remote and
worlds beyond the reach of the furthest thought. But of these
others we know nothing and cannot know, though the Valar of
Arda, maybe, remember them all.
Chief of the Valar of Arda was he whom the Eldar afterwards

named Manwe, the Blessed: the Elder King, since he was the
first of all kings in [Arda >] Ea. Brother to him was Melkor, the
potent, and he had, as has been told, fallen into pride and desire
of his own dominion. Therefore the Valar avoided him, and
began the building and ordering of Arda without him. For
which reason it is said that whereas there is now great evil in
Arda and many things therein are at discord, so that the good of
one seemeth to be the hurt of another, nonetheless the founda-
tions of this world are good, and it turns by nature to good,
healing itself from within by the power that was set there in its
making; and evil in Arda would fail and pass away if it were not
renewed from without: that is: that comes from wills and being
[sic] that are other than Arda itself.
And as is known well, the prime among these is Melkor.
Measureless as were the regions of Ea, yet in the Beginning,
where he could have been Master of all that was done - for
there were many of the Ainur of the Song willing to follow him
and serve him, if he called - still he was not content. And he
sought ever for Arda and Manwe, his brother, begrudging him
the kingship, small though it might seem to his desire and his
potency; for he knew that to that kingship Iluvatar designed to
give the highest royalty in Ea, and under the rule of that throne
to bring forth the Children of God. And in his thought which
deceived him, for the liar shall lie unto himself, he believed that
over the Children he might hold absolute sway and be unto
them sole lord and master, as he could not be to spirits of his
own kind, however subservient to himself. For they knew that
the One Is, and must assent to Melkor's rebellion of their own
choice; whereas he purposed to withhold from the Children this
knowledge and be for ever a shadow between them and the
light.
As a shadow Melkor did not then conceive himself. For in his
beginning he loved and desired light, and the form that he took
was exceedingly bright; and he said in his heart: 'On such
brightness as I am the Children shall hardly endure to look;
therefore to know of aught else or beyond or even to strain their
small minds to conceive of it would not be for their good.' But
the lesser brightness that stands before the greater becomes a
darkness. And Melkor was jealous, therefore, of all other
brightnesses, and wished to take all light unto himself. There-
fore Iluvatar, at the entering in of the Valar into Ea, added a
theme to the Great Song which was not in it at the first Singing,