Who was in the Host of the 'Valar'?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by hewhoarisesinmight

but why didn't the Valar do the job. There would less collateral damage if they had gone in with more force as the battle would have been over sooner.

I think actually it's the other way around. If there were the Valar present, there wouldn't be less "collateral damage"... maybe on lives, but surely not on the face of Arda. Remember the first battle of Utumno, and look what happened to Beleriand when there were just Maiar. We can speculate that if Valar were present in the War of Wrath, there might be not even no Beleriand, but also for example no Eriador. Something like that.

Also there was the point that Valar considered their assault on Utumno a failure. Cf. somewhere around, I am sure there would be some references to this topic on some threads in the Downs.

Otherwise I agree with Anguirel, only some reference to the books to verify this would be good. And also, I think Aiwendil's point about Manwë is crucial to this topic.