As Melkor had now seen the vision, created by their Great Music, it was far more that his ideas. Filled with astonishment he left the Timeless Halls as one of the first with the wish to enrich the world and to see the Children of Ilúvatar to live among them and teach them and guide them.

And now that he had seen the foreshadowed world, he understood how to create and build more, now that the Flame Imperishable was in the world. Whilst some of his brethren felt at a loss as they had expected the find a world as they had seen it in the vision, Melkor was full of joy and thirst for action, starting his work enthusiastically. Great was then his passion and tirelessly he worked. After waiting for so long, he could not work fast enough to create all that he had heard and seen and thought of even before the Great Music.

And although the Children of Ilúvatar were far from what he had ever imagined, great was his love for them and he wanted to bring order into the world to prepare it for their arrival. His greatest passion however lay in the clear cristals of ice, because he knew of it's fragile beauty and his passion for fire as his desire for the Flame Imperishable had dominated his thoughts for so long.

The darkness of the world seemed to him so dull and he wanted to create the beauty he had in mind for the children to come. So he began creating great fires of heat and all shades and colours in the depths of darkness and time. And he forged great cristals of ice that reflected the light of his fires and for a while it could not understand why both could not be so close to each other without one destroying the other.

As he worked now without rest and alone, he forgot the bitterness in his heart for a while and the joy of creating filled him instead.

But as he thought now about the Children of Ilúvatar, a seed of envy started to sprout, envy for the gifts that had been promised to them and jealous that Ilúvatar would have others to serve him. So it came to his mind, that he could subdue them to his will instead and he would rule and teach them wisely and they would serve him in return. And he wanted to show them in everything he created the power of his might.

In the long ages of labour and creation, Melkor avoided the company of his brother Manwë and the Valar that had sung the other theme, for he did not understand their minds and plans properly. Only a few lesser Maiar had wanted to join him in Eä and Melkor taught them, led them and slowly subdued them to his own will.

As now a place was made for the Children of Ilúvatar, Melkor wanted to prepare it to the best of his discretion and power. But disagreement was between him and his brethren on how to shape and structure the habitation for Elves and Men. What he had created, his brethren would reshape and what they had build, he would change and both thought their idea would be the best for the Children to come. And Melkor ignited great fire on the Earth to give them light and warmth. He now thought, amongst all the Ainur he had been the first to dream of a world like this, he had been the one to ask Ilúvatar, he was to first to come into Eä and put the greatest thought and work into what had been created and he said to the other Valar: 'This shall be my own kingdom; and I name it unto myself!'

But as now Manwë joined forces with other Valar and Maiar to opose him, Melkor decided to depart for a while to forge a plan how to become stronger than them and take what he thought of as his own.