Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc
I am wondering why would a fire spirit (which Arien was, no doubt) belong to Vána, who on first sight did not seem to have anything to do with fire.
|
I don't think that that passage from Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor means that Arien belonged to Vana - only that she did this and that in the gardens of Vana and I don't think that a maia has to belong to a certain vala/valie in order to perform a certain duty. Furthermore, in Myths Transformed it is said:
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Home X, MT, II
Now the Sun was designed to be the heart of Arda, and the Valar purposed that it should give light to all that Realm, unceasingly and without wearying or diminution, and that from its light the world should receive health and life and growth. Therefore Varda set there the most ardent and beautiful of all those spirits that had entered with her into Ea, and she was named Ar(i), and Varda gave to her keeping a portion of the gift of Iluvatar so that the Sun should endure and be blessed and give blessing.
...
But Arie rejected Melkor and rebuked him, saying: 'Speak not of right, which thou hast long forgotten. Neither for thee nor by thee alone was Ea made; and thou shalt not be King of Arda. Beware therefore; for there is in the heart of As a light in which thou hast no part, and a fire which will not serve thee
|
which further underlines the relation between Arien and fire as light, esspecially the Light of Iluvatar, the Imperishable Flame.