[00:07.000]There was Ilúvatar, the whole father
[00:11.200]And he made first the Ainur,
[00:14.000]The Holy Ones,
[00:16.000]That were the offspring of his thought,
[00:21.000]And they were with him before time.
[00:24.500]And he spoke to them,
[00:26.400]Propounding to them themes of the music;
[00:30.500]And they sang before him.
[00:35.200]And it came to pass that Ilúvatar called together all the Ainur
[00:41.800]And declared to them a mighty theme,
[00:45.500]Unfolding to them things greater and more wonderful
[00:50.200]Than he had yet revealed;
[00:56.000]And the glory of its beginning and the splendour of its end
[01:00.500]Amazed the Ainur.
[01:09.800]Then Ilúvatar said:
[01:11.000]'Of the theme that I have declared to you,
[01:15.000]But all incomplete,
[01:17.300]I desire now
[01:19.500]That you will make clear to me together,
[01:22.500]A Great Music.
[01:24.000]And since I have kindled you with fire,
[01:28.000]Ye shall show exercises of your powers
[01:31.000]In adorning this theme,
[01:34.500]Each with his own thoughts and devices.'
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