As someone with a bipolar relative, whose most recent and, hopefully, last episode I got to experience the peak of, I can say that Melkor's behavior does not remind me of someone bipolar. I agree with Galadriel that bipolar people are far more frightening than charming (at least during manic periods - it's just sad when they become depressed

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Also . . . all right, I'll bite. Where do you get the impression that he is
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more interested in sex than most Ainur.
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? I for one have not seen anything that would indicate that. Then again, I am just starting my second reading of the Silmarillion and lack some of the familiarity with the subject matter possessed by others here.