@sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild @Eiswald In the JRRTolkien fictional universe, the Maiar, Valar, and Elves all have the ability to perform "magic". When a human or hobbit talks about it as magic, the magic-user can't comprehend.

But, it was very clearly explained that Melkor became Morgoth as he siphoned off his immense spiritpower into investing Evil into the world, corrupting Middle-earth.

So, his magic came from investing some of his spirit into things. We know the same thing from Sauron's ring; he invested so much of his spirit into it, he was no longer powerful (enough) without it.

Consequently, we can determine that in Tolkien's universe, magic-use is a matter of siphoning off some of your own soul, or spirit, for the purpose of achieving some "thing".
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