[Flame of Udûn]

I didn't meant to assert that there was no single creator (of course Eru made the Valar and was the commander of the song that created the world). I did not mention him because I was looking at how the mythology fits in with that of the Norse rather than how it is similar to Christianity (eg. Melkor's fall being similar to that of satan). Despite Eru being very similar to the Christian God this does not in my opinion move the Valar to a position lower than that of the viking gods for in viking mythology the gods did not in fact create the universe they did however fashion it from the body parts of a dead giant that Odin slew. This to me is reasonably similar to the creation of the universe in ME except within the Viking mythology there is not a creator for Odin and his two brothers (the rest of the gods are descendants of these three) they are the grandsons of a male human type creature (obviously cannot be human reallyseing as they are gods) and he was licked out of the ice by a cow who also gave him sustinence in her milk.