How bout this? It's from the chapter of the Sil 'Of Feanor and the Unchaining of Melkor':
"For Manwe was free from evil and could not comprehend it, and he knew that in the beginning, in the thought of Iluvatar, Melkor had been even as he"
This means that in the "thought of Iluvatar", Melkor had been good or light or protagonistic or whatever you want to call it, just as Manwe was. It may have been Melkor's doom to become corrupted, but it still came about because of his own decisions.
[ May 17, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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