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Originally Posted by Inziladun
I agree on Ungoliant's origin. I think she was one of the Ainu who entered separately from the Valar.
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Maybe but probably not.
There are at least two other examples of the Valar summoning "spirits" during the early days; first Manwë:
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But Manwë was the brother of Melkor in the mind of Ilúvatar, and he was the chief instrument of the second theme that Ilúvatar had raised up against the discord of Melkor; and he called unto himself many spirits both greater and less, and they came down into the fields of Arda and aided Manwë, lest Melkor should hinder the fulfilment of their labour for ever, and Earth should wither ere it flowered.
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Then Yavanna:
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When the Children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and the olvar, and some will dwell therein, and be held in reverence, and their just anger shall be feared.
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It doesn't seem too much of a stretch to say that Melkor has the same power, particularly in his early days when he was still strong.
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Therefore he gathered to himself spirits out of the halls of Eä that he had perverted to his service...
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As to what these spirits are, Tolkien doesn't say but I consider it doubtful that they're Ainur. The Ainur were created outside of (and before) Eä, whereas these seem to me to have been created within Eä and are part of it ("spirits out of the halls of Eä").