"Bard" just somehow seems too jolly of a word to describe the Ainur. They were rather majestic folk who sat around looking majestic in everything that they did.
I can see how your friend could have been confused between "Bard" and "Singer," since the two often mean pretty much the same thing.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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