Valinor
 

I was wondering who the founders/leaders of Valinor are. I forgot, and like the idiot I can be, i haven't the resources to find out. please help me.

Don't put yourself down! Just look to the name. The Valar founded Valinor. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

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Iarwain

[ August 26, 2003: Message edited by: Iarwain ]

what was the woman's name that founded it with him. I know there are 2 main people who founded valinor and i was just wondering who both are.

Hmmm hard to tell, I ahve never felt that someone specific did found Valinor, only as Iarwain sais the valar collectively. Nevertheless, I think you are refering to Varda, the spouse of Manwë. They are two of the greatest valar, both of them stayed true to Iluvatar, striving for the good of men and elves, in difference from Melkor who was the most like to Manwë, only more powerful.

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I thought Valinor was just a part of ea that was created along with midde-earth in the music of the ainur, and that the Valar took it as their land while melkor inhabited middle-earth. (needless to say that the valar did make great changes to the land to make it better fit their purposes, as did melkor)

I would have to say that the Valar did found Valinor in about the same way the United States was founded(or any other country for that matter). The Valar came to Ea and chose the land on which Valinor sould be located to be their country. So they set it apart as their abode, and made it independent from all outsiders. I don't think that just one or two of them could have done this, they would have all had a part in the process.

I think I agree with Gurthang on how it was founded, but I'm not so sure about this. I know that the Valar inhabited Valinor, but didn't most of the Valar walk the lands of Middle Earth for a long time before Melkor actually started destroying it? I'm not so sure on my facts right now for my book is out of reach, but I thought that they were actually part of Middle Earth for a while.

I know I remember something about Ulmo for he still roamed Middle Earth after a long time had passed, but didn't Varda and Yavanna stay there for a while as well. I thought I remembered it saying in the Silm that Yavanna was there creating the forests and so forth. Was she actually in Middle Earth or just in Valinor doing all of this? It has been a topic that I have been wondering about.

Yavanna probably was in Middle-earth, and Ulmo was in Utgarsecg. I don't recall Varda staying in Middle-earth that long. Didn't Orome also frequently roam Middle-earth like Yavanna did. In the old mythology, he was Yavanna's son.

well, valinor wasn't really set apart form the rest of arda until the 2nd age when Neumenor came with the great fleet right? i think that most or all of the valar helped in shaping valinor to there likings. maybe ulmo and yavanna didnt help.

Technically true, but really every city and place and item in all of Ea were created by the music of the Ainur.

Valinor was founded after the Spring of Arda was ended, and Almaren in ruins. They went there because they wanted a place safe from Morgoth. As for the process of choosing the spot, and building of the actual place, that's beyond me, or ME. Whatever

Not items or cities. Sometimes predestined, in 'theme' form, to an extent; but actual cities and items in the world are created physically by its inhabitants.

Built out of the Music and the word of Illuvatar, though, yes.