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View Poll Results: Which Male Valar is your favorite?
Manwë 7 14.29%
Melkor 5 10.20%
Ulmo 16 32.65%
Aulë 5 10.20%
Mandos 5 10.20%
Lórien 2 4.08%
Tulkas 4 8.16%
Oromë 5 10.20%
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Old 12-07-2007, 01:43 PM   #12
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There is something very touching in Ulmo himself. Being always alone (not having a spouse like most other Valar) and living isolated from the other Valar makes him an oddly sad character to me. I think he must be solitary by nature, but there's still something sad in him. Besides, how could one not like him since he was the only Vala who really didn't abandon the Children of Ilúvatar?
This reminded me of Davem telling me that the role of Ulmo, Lord of Waters was played by an inflatable penguin in the production of the Silmarillion at Birmingham...
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