but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first." "Straightway discord arose around him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent. For a while the cosmic choir made wondrous music, but then Melkor tried to increase his own glory by weaving into his song thoughts and ideas that were not in accordance with the original theme. According to a story meant as a parable of events beyond Elvish comprehension, Eru let his spirit-children perform a great Music, the Music of the Ainur (Ainulindalë), developing a theme revealed by Eru himself. Rebellion originated with the Vala Melkor (Morgoth). As created by Eru, the Ainur were all good and uncorrupt, as Elrond stated in The Lord of the Rings: "Nothing is evil in the beginning.
Though less mighty than the chief Valar, he was more powerful than many of his fellow Maiar Tolkien noted that he was of a "far higher order" than the Maiar who later came to Middle-earth as the Wizards Gandalf and Saruman. In Tolkien's letters, the author noted that Sauron "was of course a 'divine' person (in the terms of this mythology a lesser member of the race of Valar)".
The lesser beings who entered the world, of whom Sauron was one, were called Maiar. Those who entered the physical world were called Valar, especially the most powerful ones. In the terminology of Tolkien's invented language of Quenya, these angelic spirits were called Ainur. The being later known as Sauron thus originated as an "immortal (angelic) spirit". The cosmological myth prefixed to The Silmarillion explains how the supreme being Eru initiated his creation by bringing into being innumerable spirits, "the offspring of his thought", who were with him before anything else had been made.
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