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[littlemanpoet]

Originally posted by Kuruharan:
<STRONG>Actually, the Valar never struck me as being particularly skilled in their task. They were always goofing up.</STRONG>

ALWAYS goofing up!? [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Take a look at The Music of the Ainur in the Silmarillion (or the Book of Lost Tales). In it Tolkien portrays the seed of everything that came afterward. Iluvatar is pleased by the music of the Ainur, until Melkor asserts his own dissonant themes.

I think you're seeing five little black dots in the middle of the big white page, so to speak. In other words, the Valar were quite accomplished in their work, Manwe giving speech to Eagles, Aule forming the mountains and basically cleaning up the mess Morgoth made, Yavanna making green things grow, Ulmo doing his wonders in the deep. I could go on and on...

I really don't know that I'd even call the things you mentioned as MISTAKES or goof-ups by the Valar. Sure, what they did got corrupted or went bad, but just because something gets corrupted doesn't mean it shouldn't have been done in the first place. Otherwise God should never have bothered to create it all in the first place.

[ February 23, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]