Íluvatar's opponents?

[Legolas]

No, that's not the concept. By praising Eru or cursing him, a being would prove his design to be perfect. Whether good or evil, the being would make a choice - exercising his/her privlege of free will - which would show that whether or not he/she chose good, the outcome would be as Eru would have it. That his will was greater than theirs and would come through no matter what The good triumphant, the evil falls. His design is ultimate goodness.

As I quoted earlier from Tolkien:

And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument, in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.

[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: Legolas ]