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to himself. To Melkor among the Ainur had been given the greatest gifts of power and knowledge, and he had a share
in all the gifts of his brethren. He had gone often alone into the void places seeking the Imperishable Flame; for desire
grew hot within him to bring into Being things of his own, and it seemed to him that Il├║vatar took no thought for the
Void, and he was impatient of its emptiness. Yet he found not the Fire, for it is with Il├║vatar. But being alone he had
begun to conceive thoughts of his own unlike those of his brethren.
Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that
sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune
their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and
the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound. But Il├║vatar sat and hearkened until it
seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as of dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless
wrath that would not be assuaged.
Then Il├║vatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that he smiled; and he lifted up his left hand, and a new theme
began amid the storm, like and yet unlike to the former theme, and it gathered power and had new beauty. But the
discord of Melkor rose in uproar and contended with it, and again there was a war of sound more violent than before,
until many of the Ainur were dismayed and sang no longer, and Melkor had the mastery. Then again Il├║vatar arose, and
the Ainur perceived that his countenance was stern; and he lifted up his right hand, and behold! a third theme grew
amid the confusion, and it was unlike the others. For it seemed at first soft and sweet, a mere rippling of gentle sounds
in delicate melodies; but it could not be quenched, and it took to itself power and profundity. And it seemed at last that
there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Il├║vatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one
was deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly
came. The other had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little
harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes. And it essayed to drown the
other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken by the other and woven
into its own solemn pattern.
In the midst of this strife, whereat the halls of Il├║vatar shook and a tremor ran out into the silences yet unmoved,
Il├║vatar arose a third time, and his face was terrible to behold. Then he raised up both his hands, and in one chord,
deeper than the Abyss, higher than the Firmament, piercing as the light of the eye of Il├║vatar, the Music ceased.



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Then Il├║vatar spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may
know, and all the Ainur, that I am Il├║vatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what
ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can
any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things
more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.'
Then the Ainur were afraid, and they did not yet comprehend the words that were said to them; and Melkor was
filled with shame, of which came secret anger. But Il├║vatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions
that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him.
But when they were come into the Void, Il├║vatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a
vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it
was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it. And as they looked and wondered this World
began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew. And when the Ainur had gazed for a while and
were silent, Il├║vatar said again: 'Behold your Music! This is your minstrelsy; and each of you shall find contained
herein, amid the design that I set before you, all those things which it may seem that he himself devised or added. And
thou, Melkor, wilt discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and wilt perceive that they are but a part of the whole
and tributary to its glory.'
And many other things Il├║vatar spoke to the Ainur at that time, and because of their memory of his words, and