Melkor/Arda Marred or Remade

[Saurreg]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

I partly agree. It is true that he did not suffer as much as his victims did, but he did suffer. (Of course we can always argue, was his suffering justified, but I was trying to avoid that argument... )

When you mentioned suffering, were you by chance suggesting that Morgoth could not help but be evil because that was Illuvatar's plans for him - to play the villain in a cosmic ballad so that a new and better world could be made?

In that case his would be the saddest story of them all.