The Discord of Melkor

oil on canvas 60x80 cm

"But as the theme progressed, it came into the heart of Melkor to interweave matters of his own imagining that were not in accord with the theme of Ilúvatar (...) Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered: but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound."

J.R.R. Tolkien "The Silmarillion"