“what happens when a man hasn’t been loved his whole life? I think often something like power fills that void.”—charlie vickers

it’s no coincidence he set his sights on mairon: he was aulë’s best pupil—and melkor despised aulë and resented eru for how he reacted to his transgression both are sub-creators and craftsmen, but in direct opposition, so corrupting mairon was melkor’s personal victory over aulë