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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