song endowed with existence by Eru, was called Eä in Quenya. The Earth was called Arda. Those of the Ainur who felt concern for the Creation entered it, and...
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Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium (redirect from The Void (Middle-earth))
parts, Earth, Purgatory or the Earthly Paradise, and Heaven or the Celestial Paradise. Scholars have debated the nature of evil in Middle-earth, arguing...
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Valar (redirect from Providence in Middle-earth)
some of the Ainur choose to enter the world (Arda) to complete its material development after its form is determined by the Music of the Ainur. The mightiest...
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Morgoth (redirect from Iron Crown (Middle-earth))
find it. He contends with Eru in the Music of the Ainur, introducing themes of his own. He draws many weaker-willed Ainur to him. Ironically, these attempts...
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character in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. She appears in The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and in several stories...
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Ainulindalë (redirect from Middle-earth creation myth)
how the Ainur, a class of angelic beings, perform a great music prefiguring the creation of the material universe, Eä, including Middle-Earth. The creator...
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Ainur may refer to: Ainur, a given name in several languages, such as Arabic, Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Albanian. The Turkish version of it is Aynur. It means...
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The history of Middle-earth, as described in The Silmarillion, began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and...
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Valar and Maiar. Other beings of Middle-earth are of unclear nature such as Tom Bombadil and his wife Goldberry. The Ainur were angelic spirits created by...
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History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 by George Allen & Unwin in the UK and by Houghton Mifflin in the US...
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History of Arda (redirect from Land of the Sun (Middle-earth))
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation...
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Scholars have identified numerous themes in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, among them paganism. Despite Tolkien's assertion that The Lord of...
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Christopher Tolkien; and films, games and other media created by other people. Middle-earth – fantasy setting created by Tolkien, home to hobbits, orcs, ents, dragons...
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Maiar (redirect from Maiar in Middle-earth)
Supernatural and angelic, they are "lesser Ainur" who entered the cosmos of Eä in the beginning of time. The name Maiar is in the Quenya tongue (one of several...
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for good or evil. Several of the races of Middle-earth are inherently able to work magic, from the godlike Ainur (including Wizards and Balrogs, both being...
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Christianity is a central theme in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional works about Middle-earth, but the specifics are always kept hidden. This allows for the...
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The music of Middle-earth consists of the music mentioned by J. R. R. Tolkien in his Middle-earth books, the music written by other artists to accompany...
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"Ainur", The Complete Guide to Middle-earth The Complete Guide to Middle-earth, published in 1978 was a major expansion of A Guide to Middle-earth, at...
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Beleriand (redirect from Angband (Middle-earth))
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand (IPA: [bɛˈlɛ.ri.and]) was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in...
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Sauron (category Middle-earth rulers)
chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that the Ainur, the "angelic" powers of his constructed myth, "were capable of many degrees...
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The Silmarillion (category Middle-earth books)
first created the Ainur, a group of eternal spirits or demiurges, called "the offspring of his thought". Ilúvatar brought the Ainur together and showed...
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Morgoth's Ring (category Middle-earth books)
tenth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R...
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Tenebrionidae Äynu people, of Western China Äynu language Äynu (disambiguation) Ainur (disambiguation) Aino (disambiguation) Aniu, character from Balto II This...
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The Lost Road and Other Writings (category Middle-earth books)
Ainulindalë (the Music of the Ainur). The Lhammas ("Account of Tongues") — an overview of the various languages of Middle-earth. Quenta Silmarillion — a draft...
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Works inspired by Tolkien (redirect from Images of Middle-Earth)
female elves". The Italian group Ainur (named for Tolkien's Ainur) released Middle-earth themed albums named Children of Hurin (2007) and Lay of Leithian...
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Goldberry (category Middle-earth deities and spirits)
the Ainur, specifically the Vala Yavanna. There are physical similarities between Goldberry and Yavanna: both characters have blond hair and dress in green...
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Balrog (category Middle-earth Maiar)
is a species of powerful demonic monsters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. One first appeared in print in his high-fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings...
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Battle of the Pelennor Fields (category Middle-earth battles)
Andelin, in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, writes that prophecy in Middle-earth depended on characters' understanding of the Music of the Ainur, the divine...
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Witch-king of Angmar (category Middle-earth Men)
Andelin, in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, writes that prophecy in Middle-earth depended on characters' understanding of the Music of the Ainur, the divine...
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The Book of Lost Tales (category Middle-earth books)
The History of Middle-earth, in which he presents and analyses the manuscripts of those stories, which were the earliest form (begun in 1917) of the complex...
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