Very good question Telchar!
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...but now the whisper went among the Elves that Manwë held them captive, so that Men might come and supplant them in the kingdoms of Middle-earth, for the Valar saw that they might more easily sway this short-lived and weaker race, defrauding the Elves of the inheritance of Ilúvatar
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well Melkor was obviously the whisperer to the Elves, and he is already assuming they will be short-lived and weaker, so perhaps their fall was already forseen and woven into the third Theme?