Did Melkor really mar creation?
I thought it was his presence that made the world so beatiful, for example, he created the Misty Mountains, the icy wastes and the firey pits. Surely he enhanced the world by creating conflict and drama too, for if he had not the world would be intolerably boring?
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For forty days and forty nights
They rode through red blood to the knee
And they saw neither sun nor moon
But heard the roaring of the sea
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