But being alone [Melkor] had begun to conceive thoughts of his own unlike those of his brethren. Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first.
Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Silmarillion. (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.) 4. (Ainulindale)
