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NeoGreen

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23. Sometimes a deity...

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Fri Feb 1, 2019, 09:35 AM

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...watches as the Ainur create the universe with music.

Ainulindalë (Quenya: [ˌai̯nuˈlindalɛ]; "Music of the Ainur" ) is the creation account in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, published as the first part of the posthumously published The Silmarillion (1977).

In many ways central to Tolkien's "subcreative" cosmology, the Ainulindalë gives an account of the Ainur, a class of angelic beings, who perform a great music prefiguring the creation of the material universe (Eä). Ilúvatar introduces the theme of the sentient races of Elves and Men, not anticipated by the Ainur, and gives physical being to the prefigured universe. Some of the Ainur decide to enter the physical world to prepare for their arrival, becoming the Valar and Maiar.

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