The Saga of the Female Wizard- The Silmarillion

Book 1 of 3

By Forged in Fire and Flame

Disclaimer: All of the LOTR Universe besides my own characters belongs to the wonderful J.R.R Tolkien and anything from the movies (LOTR trilogy and Hobbit movies) belongs to Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema.

Note: This may start off a bit slow, but preserve and keep reading please, it will get faster. This chapter will have quotes from the Silmarillion that I do not own and don't claim to own. The main portions will be italicized. I have messed with the names and a few characters but all will be explained in time

The Beginning of the Ainur and Arda

In the very, very beginning of Arda, before even Arda existed there was nothing but Eru, or the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar made the Ainur, the Holy Ones of his thought for he was lonely and said to himself,

"Why should I be all alone? For I have the capacity to create beings and I will have fellowship with these beings.

So the Ainur, which is, the Valar and the Maiar were made. Out of nothingness came Melkor with his dark and unfathomable eyes and since he was the first, he was given the greatest gifts of power and knowledge. Next came his brother, Manwe with his bright blue eyes.

But Ilúvatar halted in his creation of the Ainur to explain to the two brothers of his Song, the Song of the Universe.

"The Song will live in every living thing when my work is done but the Song must be created first. That is what your purpose is, you must create the song with your brethren and then my goal will be reached."

Bowing, Melkor began to sing, though he had not known the tune. In his deep tenors, the Song deepened and seemed sad and heavy. And afterwards, Manwe began to sing as well, balancing the song into a melody of basses and cellos, and it was truly beautiful.

As the two Vala were singing, Ilúvatar made the rest of the Ainur, separating them into two groups, the higher Valar, and the slightly less powerful Maiar. And as he spoke to them all, they comprehended his design and sang their own melody, adding uniqueness to the song and as they sang for timeless days, they grew in understanding and increased in unity and harmony. And they sang, and sang, creating words long lost and melodies the ear has not since heard. But the One halted their song and called the Ainur and showed them a mightier theme, greater than they had even imagined. And Ilúvatar showed them even more wonderful things and the glory of its beginning and the splendour of its end amazed the Ainur, so that they bowed before Ilúvatar and were silent.

Then Ilúvatar said to them:

"Of the theme that I have declared to you, I wish that you now in harmony make a Great Music. And since I have kindled you with the Flame Imperishable, you reveal your own powers by making this theme, each person with his own thoughts and imagination. But I will sit and listen to this new song, which added to the old song forms The Song.

Then the voices of the Ainur were like harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like countless choirs singing in long lost tongues. And they began to fashion the theme of Ilúvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Ilúvatar were filled to overflowing even to the deepest pits and the highest heights, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.

"Never since have the Ainur made any music like to this music, though it has been said that a greater still shall be made before Ilúvatar by the choirs of the Ainur and the Children of Ilúvatar after the end of days. Then the themes of Ilúvatar shall be played aright, and take Being in the moment of their utterance, for all shall then understand fully his intent in their part, and each shall know the comprehension of each, and Ilúvatar shall give to their thoughts the secret fire, being well pleased."

But as the One listened, everything seemed good and acceptable for a while until Melkor interfered. His heart had grown dark and he grew jealous of the might of the One and desired more power and glory for himself, though he had the most power and knowledge among the Ainur. But as the cliché quote goes… With great power comes great responsibility. But Melkor abused that power and much grief and sorrow was the result of his acts. He had gone often alone into the void looking the Imperishable Flame; for desire grew hot within him create beings of his own design and to have servants under him. But he did not find the Fire or the Flame (reference to my username :) ) for it dwells within Ilúvatar.

And so he began a new thread, darker and deeper and immediately chaos and discord followed as some of the Ainur unknowingly followed his dark tune. And his discord spread until Ilúvatar saw the storm caused by the clashing of his design and that of Melkor's.

And then he stood up and raised his hand, creating a new song with more power, beauty and elegance. But Melkor's dark tunes rose to dominance and the war of sounds and melodies was violent as the Ainur grew dismayed and sung no more.

"Then again Ilúvatar arose, and the Ainur perceived that his countenance was stern; and he lifted up his right hand, and behold! A third theme grew amid the confusion, and it was unlike the others. For it seemed at first soft and sweet, a mere rippling of gentle sounds in delicate melodies; but it could not be quenched, and it took to itself power and profundity." This was the theme of the One, and the Ainur rallied to it and sang with their melodies once more.

And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of Ilúvatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came. The other had now achieved a unity of its own; but it was loud, and vain, and endlessly repeated; and it had little harmony, but rather a clamorous unison as of many trumpets braying upon a few notes.

And it essayed to drown the other music by the violence of its voice, but it seemed that its most triumphant notes were taken. Then the Ainur were afraid, and they did not yet comprehend the words that were said to them; and Melkor was filled with shame, of which came secret anger. But Ilúvatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him."

And so the two ever warring sides were created, good fought with evil, light with dark and hope with despair.

And then Ilúvatar showed them the result of their Music. The Ainur looked and saw a new World, and it lived and when the Ainur had gazed for a while and were silent, Ilúvatar said again: 'Behold your Music! This is your song; and each of you shall find contained in here, all those things which he himself added or devised. And you, Melkor, will discover all the secret thoughts of thy mind, and will perceive that they are but a part of the whole and tributary to its glory.'

And many other things Ilúvatar spoke to the Ainur at that time, and because of their memory of his words, and the knowledge that each has of the music that he himself made, the Ainur know much of what was, and is, and is to come, and few things are unseen by them. Yet some things there are that they cannot see, neither alone nor taking counsel together; for to none but himself has Ilúvatar revealed all that he has in store, and in every age there come forth things that are new and have no foretelling, for they do not proceed from the past. And so it was that as this vision of the World was played before them, the Ainur saw that it contained things which they had not thought. And they saw with amazement the coming of the Children of Ilúvatar, and the habitation that was prepared for them; and they perceived that they themselves in the labour of their music had been busy with the preparation of this dwelling, and yet knew not that it had any purpose beyond its own beauty. For the Children of Ilúvatar were conceived by him alone; and they came with the third theme, and were not in the theme which Ilúvatar propounded at the beginning, and none of the Ainur had part in their making. Therefore when they beheld them, the more did they love them, being things other than themselves, strange and free, wherein they saw the mind of Ilúvatar reflected anew, and learned yet a little more of his wisdom, which otherwise had been hidden even from the Ainur.

Now the Children of Ilúvatar are Elves and Men, the Firstborn and the Followers. And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars. And this habitation might seem a little thing to those who consider only the majesty of the Ainur or who consider only the immeasurable vastness of the World, which still the Ainur are shaping, and not the minute precision to which they shape all things therein. But when the Ainur had beheld this habitation in a vision and had seen the Children of Ilúvatar arise therein, and then many of the mightiest among them bent all their thought and their desire towards that place. And of these Melkor was the chief, even as he was in the beginning the greatest of the Ainur who took part in the Music. And he feigned, even to himself at first, that he desired to go thither and order all things for the good of the Children of Ilúvatar, controlling the turmoils of the heat and the cold that had come to pass through him. But he desired rather to subdue to his will both Elves and Men, envying the gifts with which Ilúvatar promised to endow them; and he wished himself to have subject and servants, and to be called Lord, and to be a master over other wills. And though his countenance darkened, he kept the brooding darkness in his heart for now.

But the other Ainur looked upon this habitation set within the vast spaces of the World, which the Elves call Arda, the Earth; and their hearts rejoiced in light, and their eyes beholding many colours were filled with gladness; but because of the roaring of the sea they felt a great unquiet. And they observed the winds and the air, and the matters of which Arda was made, of iron and stone and silver and gold and many substances: but of all these water they most greatly praised. And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar still listen unsatisfied to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.

And so, the Elves were created and Arda began.

Note: More of my own writing will come in the following chapters. Please comment, review and favorite and tell me in which category this should go in, the Silmarillion in books or crossovers as LOTR and Silmarillion.

Now I know some of you think that the Silmarillion is boring but I disagree, and think it is an epic story of epic proportions. I love that word, epic, by the way. Next up the Valar and Maiar will be introduced by name and the positions that they take of Earth, Sky, Sea, Fire and the rest of the domains.

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