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at night and especially to the North in winter. (It was after the
First Battle that Varda set certain stars as ominous signs for the
dwellers in Arda to see.)
The Valar to counteract this make the Moon. Out of
earth-stuff or Sun? This is to be a subsidiary light to mitigate
night * (as Melkor had made it), and also a 'vessel of watch and
ward' to circle the world.(7) But Melkor gathered in the Void
spirits of cold &c. and suddenly assailed it, driving out the Vala
Tilion.(8) The Moon was thereafter long while steerless and
vagrant and called Rana (neuter).(9)
[If Tulkas came from the Sun, then Tulkas was the form this
Vala adopted on Earth, being in origin Auron (masculine). But
the Sun is feminine; and it is better that the Vala should be Aren,
a maiden whom Melkor endeavoured to make his spouse (or
ravished);(10) she went up in a flame of wrath and anguish and

(* [marginal note] But not to drive it away. It was necessary to have
an alternation, 'because in Ea according to the Tale nothing can
endure endlessly without weariness and corruption.')

her spirit was released from Ea, but Melkor was blackened and
burned, and his form was thereafter dark, and he took to dark-
ness. (The Sun itself was Anar neuter or Ur, cf. Rana, Ithil.)]
The Sun remained a Lonely Fire, polluted by Melkor, but
after the death of the Two Trees Tilion returned to the Moon,
which remained therefore an enemy of Melkor and his servants
and creatures of night - and so beloved of Elves later &c.
After the capture of the Moon Melkor begins to be more bold
again. He establishes permanent seats in the North deep under-
ground. From thence proceeds the secret corruption which per-
verts the labours of the Valar (especially of Aule and Yavanna).
The Valar grow weary. At length discovering Melkor and
where he dwells they seek to drive him out again, but Utumno
proves too strong.
Varda has preserved some of the Primeval Light (her original
chief concern in the Great Tale). The Two Trees are made. The
Valar make their resting place and dwellings in Valinor in the
West.
Now one of the objects of the Trees (as later of the Jewels)
was the healing of the hurts of Melkor, but this could easily
have a selfish aspect: the staying of history - not going on with
the Tale. This effect it had on the Valar. They became more and
more enamoured of Valinor, and went there more often and
stayed there longer. Middle-earth was left too little tended,
and too little protected against Melkor.
Towards the end of the Days of Bliss, the Valar find the tables
turned. They are driven out of Middle-earth by Melkor and his
evil spirits and monsters; and can only themselves come there
secretly and briefly (Orome and Yavanna mainly).
This period must be brief. Both sides know that the coming of