Aluvatar and the Seven Fathers of the Dwarves

Alle wrought in secret and he made first the seven fathers of the dwarves in a hall under the mountains in Middle-Earth. Aluvatar said to him, Why doth thou attempt a thing which thou knowest is beyond thy power and thy authority? And if thy thought be elsewhere, standing idle, is that thy desire? Then Alle answered, I did not desire such lordship. I desired things other than I am to love and to teach them,. So that they too might perceive the beauty of A'ah which thee hast caused to be.