Valar / Greek and Roman gods

[Lindale]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Actually, I can't. I think that Melkor fits the idea of having offspring of his own less than anyone else (well, maybe except for Ulmo, or maybe Mandos) - he was too concerned with other things, I would say "because of lust for power he forgot everything else". And anyway, Valar overall, the way they are portrayed in the last draft, seem quite detached from this and at least for me really hard to imagine - maybe except for one or two Vánas and Nessas, but that'd be about it. In other words, whether this was Tolkien's intention or not in this draft of the Valar or not, I think he succeeded in making the Valar truly "outworldly" in this aspect.

Actually, Legate, I got the idea from HoME, just can't remember which: the Balrogs were supposed to be his offspring.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Lindale

Actually, Legate, I got the idea from HoME, just can't remember which: the Balrogs were supposed to be his offspring.

But again, just in some of the early drafts, right? In any case, it never got to the "officially published" "completed" works.