Bows of rain

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Anyway, there was a (non-player) character of a Maia who was a servant of Varda, she was named Kalamírë (i.e. "light-jewel") and she was the personification of Rainbow.

Very interesting. Wonder how many other hybrid "children" exist in Arda, meaning beings that intersect two or more magisteria of other Valar. Aule and Varda = meteorites?

In the later days of the Third Age, Saruman takes for himself the title of Many Colours, and this is not seen as a good thing. This breaking of the white light (i.e. as when light passes through a prism), which is what happens to create a rainbow, is considered to be leaving the path of wisdom.

Would then a rainbowic being be necessary on the side of good, or is it clear that I'm reading way too much into this?