Exactly, you're twisting the words around to try and make them conform to your point of view rather than taking them at face value. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
Creatures does not necessarily mean that he created them. Remember that Melkor created nothing himself, he warped things that others made and 'twisted' them to his own purposes. He took Elves, beasts, or whichever you prefer to make orcs. He took the spirits of Maia and changed them into terrible demons of fire or monsters in the forms of spiders (ugh!) or dragons. So he actually did not create anything.
He also infused Balrogs with his power as well.
If somebody who was not in the midst of this discussion read that passage, they would probably include Balrogs in the list of Morgoth's creatures.
[ March 03, 2002: Message edited by: Kuruharan ]