Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-29360236-20160806123845/@comment-26347028-20160815113608

Catfishperson wrote: Melkor was able to do something that no other vala could; think his own thoughts and have his own ideas and visions of what he thought a perfect world would be. And they were not initially evil... It was only after Eru and the other valar shot his thoughts down that he grew jealous and bitter. If any other of the valar had possessed his power, and his yearn to create and think, They would have wound up just like him. They thought their own thoughts. They just thought their own thoughts that were similar to Eru's, and realised that to achieve them they needed to co-operate, not destroy. Varda was against him from the start, because she knew what he was up to. Since she knew, I think it's reasonable to assume that he was in some way evil still there, and she was able to see what he would become. That's why he is so afraid of her. Everyone else among the Ainur that went to Arda yearned to create - that's why they went. And together, they had power superior to that of Melkor. But together, were they evil?