The discord Melkor created would have dire consequences, as this singing was a kind of template for the world: "The evils of the world were not at first in the great Theme, but entered with the discords of Melkor." However, "Sauron was not a beginner of discord and he probably knew more of the Music than did Melkor, whose mind had always been filled with his own plans and devices." Apparently Sauron was not even one of the spirits that immediately began to attune their music to that of Melkor, since it is elsewhere noted that his fall occurred later (see below). 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 of the same race, 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.
Though one of the minor spirits created before the world, he knew Eru, according to his measure."
As Tolkien noted: "Sauron could not, of course, be a 'sincere' atheist. The being later known as Sauron thus originated as an "immortal (angelic) spirit." In his origin, Sauron therefore perceived the Creator directly.
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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