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Melkor was originally greater than all the other Valar combined and stood in defiance of all of them. He is therefore not Manwe's personal opposite but the opposite of all the Valar--the antithesis of positive (creative) energy itself. He was the nihilistic Enemy of all and everything, and he could have destroyed the world had he not tried so hard to make it all his own. How are Melkor and Manwe brothers? Manwe was most like Iluvatar in mind; Melkor most like him in body. They are symbolically brothers (all were equally fraternal literally) by virtue of their greater inheritance.
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