Of the Valar
At the beginning of time, Eru had created the Ainur for his own entertainment and after he got bored by their music, sent some of them down to earth, where they were supposed to make a wonderful world out of the vast lands that lay before them, and the mightiest of them were later named Valar by the Elves.
Manwe is the mightiest of the Valar and their king. He is the Lord of the Air and his greatest delight is to blow bubbles and watch them float through the air, their surface glittering in the light. Later he became more ambitious about this hobby, and invented hot air balloons. But Yavanna, who loved all growing things, finally got annoyed with him when she found dead birds in her beautiful gardens which Manwe had shocked to death by flying past them in his balloon, and angrily took it away from him. At this, Manwe locked himself up in his bedroom and pouted for three months. He did not even leave his room for the great parties, and only did so after Aule promised to make a beautiful glass bubble for him that he could place on his desk to keep the papers from flying away.
His wife is Varda, called Elbereth by the Elves, the Queen of the Stars, but most know her as Varda the Sparkly. She is dearest to the Elves for they first perceived the light of her innumerable sparkling stars, when they awoke and have loved it ever since. She loves sparkly things and has millions of the sparkliest robes and gems. Not even Thranduil of Mirkwood owns as many sparkly things as Varda, and envies her passionately, wherefore he has yet refused to sail to the West.
Brother of Manwe, the mighty Lord of Bubbles, is Melkor. He is not very bright and more than just a little clumsy. Wherever he goes, chaos follows him inevitably. He tries eagerly to please everyone but rarely succeeds and the other Valar try to avoid him if possible, for he is renowned for his bad luck. When even a long and intense therapy did not help to cure his clumsiness, the other Valar finally decided to lock him up in the Void, so that Arda would no longer suffer from his bad luck.
Ulmo is the Lord of Waters and dwells in the Outer Seas all alone where he secretly breeds - sometimes strange - creatures to populate the oceans. One of the most peculiar ones is a thing with lots of tentacles, which he called squid. He also accidentally created a big white whale that somehow escaped to another world, where it is now called Moby Dick and hunted by an obsessed whaler.
Subject to Ulmo is Osse. He is the master of the seas about the lands of men. When the Elves came into the World, and the Teleri remained on the eastern shores waiting for Ulmo to return and bring them to Valinor, he made a lot of money with a surfing school and renting surfboards and boats to the Elves. Therefore he was not very happy when Ulmo came at last to take the Teleri to Valinor, and he convinced some to stay on the shores of Beleriand. Together with Cirdan he then opened the biggest dockyard in Middle-earth, where all the ships that afterwards sailed to Valinor and most of the other ships were built. Aule is a smith and master of crafts. He's most happy, when he's inside his forge inventing useful things. At least things he considers useful, but who needs a can opener when preserved food in cans is not yet invented in Arda?
Yavanna, his wife, as she most of the time is the one who has to test those items, is not very happy about her husband's enthusiasm in inventing things. especially when his new-invented juicer explodes and ruins her kitchen by splashing cherry juice all over the walls.
Yavanna's greatest delight lies in everything that grows. She has the biggest vegetables in her gardens, the most beautiful flowers and the sweetest fruits. And to keep it that way she uses a special fertilizer with very special ingridients which only she knows. Together with Vana she owns a little store where she sells the greatest part of her vegetables and fruits and that's also where to turn to if you have forgotten your mother's birthday or your wedding day: Vana makes the most beautiful bouquets in the whole world. And your mom or wife will love you for bringing you one of Vana's bouquets.
Mandos is the Lord of the Dead and the master of the Halls of Waiting, where the fëar of all Elves await their judgement after their physical death. He is always clad in black robes and very creative in finding new ways to punish those who have done evil deeds in life. Vaire the weaver, his wife, has trouble to keep up with recording all those methods of torture in her storied webs. Mandos has already published several books about "The Art of Torture" and is very famous with torturers - the professionals as well as those who only do it for fun - all over the world.
Mandos' brother is Lórien, the master of dreams and visions. His misty gardens are full of exotic herbs and plants with the most interesting effects. He always gives his newest creations to Mandos, who tries them on the poor spirits in the Halls of Waiting. Lórien's wife is Este, the pale, who spends most of the day asleep on an island in the lake, trying to sleep off the aftermathes of her husband's herbal creations which she eagerly consumes. If you need something to distract your mind or bring you interesting visions, Lórien's is the one who can provide anything you want.
Nienna is the sister of Mandos and Lórien, and she spends most of her time crying, because she has not yet found a man who wants to marry her. Though she is fair to look upon, the fact that she starts talking about having a family with lots of children in the first 2 hours after meeting someone, manages to scare all the men away faster than lightning.
Tulkas is the mud wrestling champion of the VMWF (Valinor Mud Wrestling Federation) and can outrun all things that go on feet. He runs around Valinor naked most of the time - showing off his perfect body and his muscles - something his wife Nessa finds very embarrassing, wherefore she spends most of her spare time dancing on the meadows of Valinor all alone, dreaming of a clothed Tulkas. The Elf-maidens on the other hand stop and stare whenever they see him and start drooling over him.
Nessa is the owner of the most exclusive night club in Valmar with the most beautiful and talented strip dancers in the whole of Arda. All famous people in Valinor - Valar and Elves - can be found there from time to time, when they are not attending one of Lórien's parties.
Orome, Nessa's brother, is the Lord of the Forest and a great hunter. He loves horses and hounds and is cursed all over Valinor when he blows his hunting horn early in the morning, when all others are still trying to get some sleep after an excessive orgy at Lórien or a night in Nessa's night club.
These are the brave Ainur that descended onto the earth to begin the mighty task of creating the world of their vision and unknowingly entertain Eru with their efforts who was - with the other Ainur - watching their progress with great interest and amusement. But they brought with them other spirits, lesser in might than the Valar who were called Maiar, to help them. Most of them were not known to the Elves, because they preferred not to appear in visible forms. Maybe because they somehow knew that they were watched and did not want to play a bigger role in Eru's play. But still there were some who became very famous, especially among the Elves.
Melian, the most beautiful of the Maiar, worked for Yavanna for a very long time as a gardener and in the evenings, as she was a very talented singer, entertained the guests on Lórien's parties. But she eventually found she was not paid enough for this hard work and did not get the acknowledgement she deserved as a singer and left Valinor, searching for new fields of activity, preferably better paid than her former job and making her more famous. She took her nightingales and went to Middle-Earth, where it was pretty boring after the Valar had retreated to Valinor and the Elves had not yet entered into the world. But at least the animals and birds listened to her when she sang and were not distracted by visions caused by Lórien's herbs. When the Elves passed by her forest, she met Elwe, one of their kings. When she found out that he was a king, she used her powers to make him fall in love with her, because she had always wanted to be a Queen. Though Elwe wanted to return to Valinor, where he had once seen the Two Trees, he stayed in Middle-Earth when Melian refused to accompany him. He founded the Kingdom of Doriath and so Melian finally got what she wanted.
Olórin was a counsellor of Lórien and an expert in herbs and their effects. He was sent to Middle-earth to find new herbs and bring them to Valinor, but was so fascinated with the Children of Eru that he decided not to return. He became a great advisor to Elves, Men and Hobbits. He did a lot of great deeds and much is told of him in other stories.
Had they been really wise they would all have stayed with Eru and enjoyed watching others do all the work, but once down on earth there was no turning back. Their mission had to be completed for Eru would not have them spoil his fun. He wanted his show and Eru always got what Eru wanted.
At the beginning of time, Eru had created the Ainur for his own entertainment and after he got bored by their music, sent some of them down to earth, where they were supposed to make a wonderful world out of the vast lands that lay before them, and the mightiest of them were later named Valar by the Elves.
Manwe is the mightiest of the Valar and their king. He is the Lord of the Air and his greatest delight is to blow bubbles and watch them float through the air, their surface glittering in the light. Later he became more ambitious about this hobby, and invented hot air balloons. But Yavanna, who loved all growing things, finally got annoyed with him when she found dead birds in her beautiful gardens which Manwe had shocked to death by flying past them in his balloon, and angrily took it away from him. At this, Manwe locked himself up in his bedroom and pouted for three months. He did not even leave his room for the great parties, and only did so after Aule promised to make a beautiful glass bubble for him that he could place on his desk to keep the papers from flying away.
His wife is Varda, called Elbereth by the Elves, the Queen of the Stars, but most know her as Varda the Sparkly. She is dearest to the Elves for they first perceived the light of her innumerable sparkling stars, when they awoke and have loved it ever since. She loves sparkly things and has millions of the sparkliest robes and gems. Not even Thranduil of Mirkwood owns as many sparkly things as Varda, and envies her passionately, wherefore he has yet refused to sail to the West.
Brother of Manwe, the mighty Lord of Bubbles, is Melkor. He is not very bright and more than just a little clumsy. Wherever he goes, chaos follows him inevitably. He tries eagerly to please everyone but rarely succeeds and the other Valar try to avoid him if possible, for he is renowned for his bad luck. When even a long and intense therapy did not help to cure his clumsiness, the other Valar finally decided to lock him up in the Void, so that Arda would no longer suffer from his bad luck.
Ulmo is the Lord of Waters and dwells in the Outer Seas all alone where he secretly breeds - sometimes strange - creatures to populate the oceans. One of the most peculiar ones is a thing with lots of tentacles, which he called squid. He also accidentally created a big white whale that somehow escaped to another world, where it is now called Moby Dick and hunted by an obsessed whaler.
Subject to Ulmo is Osse. He is the master of the seas about the lands of men. When the Elves came into the World, and the Teleri remained on the eastern shores waiting for Ulmo to return and bring them to Valinor, he made a lot of money with a surfing school and renting surfboards and boats to the Elves. Therefore he was not very happy when Ulmo came at last to take the Teleri to Valinor, and he convinced some to stay on the shores of Beleriand. Together with Cirdan he then opened the biggest dockyard in Middle-earth, where all the ships that afterwards sailed to Valinor and most of the other ships were built. Aule is a smith and master of crafts. He's most happy, when he's inside his forge inventing useful things. At least things he considers useful, but who needs a can opener when preserved food in cans is not yet invented in Arda?
Yavanna, his wife, as she most of the time is the one who has to test those items, is not very happy about her husband's enthusiasm in inventing things. especially when his new-invented juicer explodes and ruins her kitchen by splashing cherry juice all over the walls.
Yavanna's greatest delight lies in everything that grows. She has the biggest vegetables in her gardens, the most beautiful flowers and the sweetest fruits. And to keep it that way she uses a special fertilizer with very special ingridients which only she knows. Together with Vana she owns a little store where she sells the greatest part of her vegetables and fruits and that's also where to turn to if you have forgotten your mother's birthday or your wedding day: Vana makes the most beautiful bouquets in the whole world. And your mom or wife will love you for bringing you one of Vana's bouquets.
Mandos is the Lord of the Dead and the master of the Halls of Waiting, where the fëar of all Elves await their judgement after their physical death. He is always clad in black robes and very creative in finding new ways to punish those who have done evil deeds in life. Vaire the weaver, his wife, has trouble to keep up with recording all those methods of torture in her storied webs. Mandos has already published several books about "The Art of Torture" and is very famous with torturers - the professionals as well as those who only do it for fun - all over the world.
Mandos' brother is Lórien, the master of dreams and visions. His misty gardens are full of exotic herbs and plants with the most interesting effects. He always gives his newest creations to Mandos, who tries them on the poor spirits in the Halls of Waiting. Lórien's wife is Este, the pale, who spends most of the day asleep on an island in the lake, trying to sleep off the aftermathes of her husband's herbal creations which she eagerly consumes. If you need something to distract your mind or bring you interesting visions, Lórien's is the one who can provide anything you want.
Nienna is the sister of Mandos and Lórien, and she spends most of her time crying, because she has not yet found a man who wants to marry her. Though she is fair to look upon, the fact that she starts talking about having a family with lots of children in the first 2 hours after meeting someone, manages to scare all the men away faster than lightning.
Tulkas is the mud wrestling champion of the VMWF (Valinor Mud Wrestling Federation) and can outrun all things that go on feet. He runs around Valinor naked most of the time - showing off his perfect body and his muscles - something his wife Nessa finds very embarrassing, wherefore she spends most of her spare time dancing on the meadows of Valinor all alone, dreaming of a clothed Tulkas. The Elf-maidens on the other hand stop and stare whenever they see him and start drooling over him.
Nessa is the owner of the most exclusive night club in Valmar with the most beautiful and talented strip dancers in the whole of Arda. All famous people in Valinor - Valar and Elves - can be found there from time to time, when they are not attending one of Lórien's parties.
Orome, Nessa's brother, is the Lord of the Forest and a great hunter. He loves horses and hounds and is cursed all over Valinor when he blows his hunting horn early in the morning, when all others are still trying to get some sleep after an excessive orgy at Lórien or a night in Nessa's night club.
These are the brave Ainur that descended onto the earth to begin the mighty task of creating the world of their vision and unknowingly entertain Eru with their efforts who was - with the other Ainur - watching their progress with great interest and amusement. But they brought with them other spirits, lesser in might than the Valar who were called Maiar, to help them. Most of them were not known to the Elves, because they preferred not to appear in visible forms. Maybe because they somehow knew that they were watched and did not want to play a bigger role in Eru's play. But still there were some who became very famous, especially among the Elves.
Melian, the most beautiful of the Maiar, worked for Yavanna for a very long time as a gardener and in the evenings, as she was a very talented singer, entertained the guests on Lórien's parties. But she eventually found she was not paid enough for this hard work and did not get the acknowledgement she deserved as a singer and left Valinor, searching for new fields of activity, preferably better paid than her former job and making her more famous. She took her nightingales and went to Middle-Earth, where it was pretty boring after the Valar had retreated to Valinor and the Elves had not yet entered into the world. But at least the animals and birds listened to her when she sang and were not distracted by visions caused by Lórien's herbs. When the Elves passed by her forest, she met Elwe, one of their kings. When she found out that he was a king, she used her powers to make him fall in love with her, because she had always wanted to be a Queen. Though Elwe wanted to return to Valinor, where he had once seen the Two Trees, he stayed in Middle-Earth when Melian refused to accompany him. He founded the Kingdom of Doriath and so Melian finally got what she wanted.
Olórin was a counsellor of Lórien and an expert in herbs and their effects. He was sent to Middle-earth to find new herbs and bring them to Valinor, but was so fascinated with the Children of Eru that he decided not to return. He became a great advisor to Elves, Men and Hobbits. He did a lot of great deeds and much is told of him in other stories.
Had they been really wise they would all have stayed with Eru and enjoyed watching others do all the work, but once down on earth there was no turning back. Their mission had to be completed for Eru would not have them spoil his fun. He wanted his show and Eru always got what Eru wanted.
