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they made a great music before him. Of this Music the World
was made; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur, and
they beheld it as a light in the darkness. And many of the
mightiest among them became enamoured of its beauty and of
its history which they saw beginning and unfolding as in a
Vision. Therefore Iluvatar gave to their vision Being, and set it
amid the Void, and the Secret Fire was sent to burn at the heart
of the World.
Then those of the Ainur who would entered into the World at
the beginning of Time, and behold! it was their task to achieve it
and by their labour to fulfill the Vision which they had seen.
Long they laboured in the regions of Ea, which are vast beyond
the thought of Elves and Men, until in the time appointed was
made Arda, the Kingdom of Earth. Then they put on the
raiment of Earth and descended into it and dwelt therein; and
they are therein.
$2 These spirits the Elves name the Valar, which is the
Powers, and Men have often called them gods. Many lesser
spirits of their own kind they brought in their train, both great
and small; and some of these Men have confused with the Elves,
but wrongfully [read wrongly], for they were made before the
World, whereas Elves and Men awoke first on Earth, after the
coming of the Valar. Yet in the making of Elves and of Men,
and in the giving to each of their especial gifts, none of the Valar
had any part. Iluvatar alone was their author; wherefore they
are called the Children of Iluvatar [> Eru].
$3 The chieftains of the Valar were nine. These were the
names of the Nine Gods [> gods] in the Elvish tongue as it was
spoken in Valinor; though they have other or altered names in
the speech of the Gnomes [> Sindar], and their names among
Men are manifold: Manwe and Melkor, Ulmo, Aule, Mandos,
Lorien [> Lorion], Tulkas, Osse, and Orome.
$4 Manwe and Melkor were brethren in the thought of
Iluvatar / and mightiest of those Ainur who came into the
World. But Manwe is the lord of the gods, and prince of the airs
and winds, and ruler of the sky. With him dwells as wife Varda



the maker of the stars [> The mightiest of those Ainur who
came into the World was Melkor; but Manwe was dearest to
the heart of Iluvatar and understood most clearly his purposes.
He was appointed to be, in the fullness of time, the first of all
kings: lord of the realm of Arda and ruler of all that dwell
therein. And there his delight is in the winds of the world and in
all the regions of the air. With him in Arda dwells as spouse
Varda kindler of the stars], immortal lady of the heights, whose
name is holy. Fionwe and Ilmare are their son and daughter
[this sentence struck out]. Next in might and closest in
friendship to Manwe is Ulmo, lord of waters. He dwells alone in