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Originally Posted by Vultur
At least in the 1930s, Tolkien had the Ekkaia or Vaiya not being a real water ocean even before the downfall of Numenor. In the Ambarkanta (found in HoME IV) Vaiya is "more like to water below the Earth and more like to air above it" and ships cannot sail in it.
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cool thanks! so it seems that Ulmo is really given lordship over Outer Space...Ossë and Uinen are then both the governors of the Earth's bodies of water, and they report to Ulmo, who reports to Manwë, who reports to Eru.