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plains. He is a hunter, and he loves all trees; for which reason
he is called Aldaron, and by the Gnomes [> Sindar] Tauros
[> Tauron], the lord of forests. He delights in horses and in
hounds, and his horns are loud in the friths and woods that
Yavanna planted in Valinor; but he blows them not upon the
Middle-earth since the fading of the Elves, whom he loved.
Vana is his wife, the ever-young, the queen of flowers, who has
the beauty both of heaven and of earth upon her face and in all
her works; she is the younger sister of Varda and Palurien.
$9 But mightier than she is Nienna, Manwe's sister and
Melkor's. She dwells alone. Pity is in her heart, and mourning
and weeping come to her; shadow is her realm and her throne
hidden. For her halls are west of West, nigh to the borders of the
World and Darkness [read the Darkness]; and she comes
seldom to Valmar, the city of the gods, where all is glad. She
goes rather to the halls of Mandos, which are nearer and yet
more northward; and all those who go to Mandos cry to her.
For she is a healer of hurts, and turns pain to medicine and
sorrow to wisdom. The windows of her house look outward
from the walls of the World.
$10 Last do all name Melkor. But the Gnomes [> Noldor],
who suffered most from his evil deeds, will not speak his name,
and they call him Morgoth, the black god [> the Black Foe],
and Bauglir, the Constrainer. Great might was given to him by
Iluvatar, and he was coeval with Manwe, and part he had of all
the powers of the other Valar; but he turned them to evil uses.



He coveted the world and all that was in it, and desired the
lordship of Manwe and the realms of all the gods; and pride and
jealousy and lust grew ever in his heart, till he became unlike his
brethren. Wrath consumed him, and he begot violence and
destruction and excess. In ice and fire was his delight. But
darkness he used most in all his evil works, and turned it to fear
and a name of dread among Elves and Men.
$10a Thus it may be seen that there are nine Valar, and
Seven queens of the Valar of no less might; for whereas Melkor
and Ulmo dwell alone, so also doth Nienna, while Este is not
numbered among the Rulers. But the Seven Great Ones of the
Realm of Arda are Manwe and Melkor, Varda, Ulmo, Yavanna,
Aule, and Nienna; for though Manwe is their chief [> king], in
majesty they are peers, surpassing beyond compare all others
whether of the Valar and their kin, or of any other order that
Iluvatar has conceived [> caused to be].
$10b [All the following was added to the typescript in ink:
With the Valar were other spirits whose being also began before
the world: these are the maiar, of the same order as the Great
but of less might and majesty. Among them Eonwe the herald of
Manwe, and Ilmare handmaid of Varda were the chief. Many