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As the Ainur gaze out on this preview, Melkor sees now in detail how even his most private ideas and themes, even his most disruptive and destructive efforts, in the end serve only to fully elaborate Ilúvatar ’ s master plan, design, theme and will.
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Ainur and out
The Ainur, looking out at the preview of all creation, come to believe that Water, of all the substances and energies of material reality, most completely echoes the collaborative elaboration that was the propounding and cultivating of Ilúvatar ’ s entire creative plan ( i. e., the Great Music of the Ainur.
Ainur and on
When the choir of the Ainur finally embark on the fully collaborative elaboration of Ilúvatar ’ s grand plan, Melkor participates with all the others, yet he stands forth and inserts his very different thematic adornments, which disrupts the harmony.
This category lists articles on the greater Ainur, the Valar, from J. R. R.
This category lists articles on the lesser Ainur, the Maiar, from J. R. R.
Ainur and Melkor
Melkor is introduced, and the Ainur begin their Chorus.
The first Ainu to be named in the histories, Melkor (‘ Arises in Might ’) is described as the most powerful of the Ainur and as knowing much of Ilúvatar ’ s thoughts, including something of each of the primary themes that prefigure the other Ainur.
The Great Music of the Ainur progresses thus: Ilúvatar introduces a First Theme to the choir of the Ainur and Melkor ‘ spoils ’ it, with some other Ainur starting to twist their music to Melkor's theme.
) After the Great Music stops, Ilúvatar promptly praises Melkor, chastises him, and then leaves the Ainur for time to their own thoughts.
Many of the Ainur, including Melkor, become enamoured of the Earth, though Melkor still wants to dominate it and the Children.
In later writings they ceased to be creatures, but are instead Maiar, lesser Ainur like Gandalf or Sauron, spirits of fire whom Melkor had corrupted before the creation of the World.
But while Aulë strove to be true to the original intent of the Music of the Ainur, and submitted all that he did to the will of Ilúvatar, Melkor wished to control and subvert all things, and was jealous of the creations of others so that he would try to twist or destroy all that they made.
The inscription in Book X reads: " In this book are given many of the later writings of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien concerning the history of the Elder Days from the Music of the Ainur to the Hiding of Valinor ; here much is told of Sun and the Moon ; of the immortal Eldar and the death of the Atani ; of the beginning of the Orcs and of the evil power of Melkor, the Morgoth, the Black Foe of the World.
Melkor, who was then the most powerful of the Ainur, broke the harmony of the music, until Ilúvatar began first a second theme, and then a third theme, which the Ainur could not comprehend since they were not the source of it.
Ainur and even
However it is written that when the Second Music of the Ainur is played, after the Dagor Dagorath, the spirits of Men shall be included in this even greater theme, when all of the players will know and understand their part and its relation to the whole, and be tributary to its beauty and glory.
Ainur and most
The Ainur who most desire and love the Universe enter into it at the beginning of Time.
The most important of the Ainur who move into Earth are called the Valar (‘ Those with Power ’, singular ' Vala '), of which there are fourteen principal characters: Manwë, Ulmo, Aulë, Oromë, Mandos, Lórien, Tulkas, Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Estë, Vairë, Vána, and Nessa.
The first 15 of the Ainur that descended to Arda, and the most powerful ones, were called Valar, and the Ainur of lesser might that came with them were called Maiar.
Ainur and themes
Through listening and contemplation, an Ainu becomes aware of other Ainur, other musics, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.
During this sneak-preview of the Birth, Life and Death of the Universe, the Ainur behold and contemplate all the aspects of material reality, which aspects are each associated with themes associated with particular Ainu.
During the Music of the Ainur, Aulë's themes concerned the physical things of which Arda is made ; when Ilúvatar gave being to the themes of the Ainur, his music became the lands of Middle-earth.
Ainur and only
The Children of Ilúvatar ( or, in the published Silmarillion, Men only ) will sing it with the Ainur.
Ainur and fully
The Ainur see in the Vision that there are things none of them remember composing, and things they perhaps remember composing but did not at the time fully understand.
Ainur and Ilúvatar
The ‘ Ainur ’ ( meaning ‘ Holy Ones ’, singular ‘ Ainu ’) are the first such concepts-embodied or themes-realized ; they are the children ‘ of Ilúvatar ’ s thought .’ Upon their creation, when nothing else existed, Ilúvatar taught the Ainur the art of ‘ Music ’, which becomes their life and work.
After a time of Music, Ilúvatar proposes a first ‘ great ’ design / theme / plan to all the Ainur at once: a symphony for His pleasure.
While it is true that the Ainur are Ilúvatar ’ s thoughts embodied, they each have a life of their own, and are expected to utilize their ‘ freedom ’ by cultivating the grand theme.
Ilúvatar calls the Ainur together and ‘ shows ’ them a ‘ Vision ’.
Before the creation of Earth ( Arda ) when the Ainur sang to their father Ilúvatar, Ulmo was the best singer and maker of music.
Arda was created, together with the rest of Eä, through the Music of the Ainur for the Children of Ilúvatar ( that is, Elves and Men ).
The Children of Ilúvatar is the name given to the two races of Elves and Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium because they were created by Ilúvatar, the One God, without the help of the Ainur.
Ainur and ’
Their ‘ task ’ is to be part of the history of the Universe as it unfolds in accordance with the Great Music of the Ainur.
Of the Maiar: The ‘ Maiar ’ ( meaning unclear, singular ‘ Maia ’) are Ainur that came into the World with the Valar, but are of lesser rank and power.
The ‘ battle ’ in the choir of the Ainur rages back and forth with the ‘ pro-Ilúvatar ’ Music described as " deep and wide and beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow, from which its beauty chiefly came.
Ainur and will
Following this, there will be a Second Music of the Ainur.
All the Ainur know is that the Second Music will be greater than the First Music.
Ainur and .
These divine beings are the Valar, the Maiar and the ' Enemies ' ( the last being equivalent to fallen Ainur of the same kind and order as the Valar / Maiar.
Just as with the rest of Tolkien's characters, the natures and names of these worldly Ainur are by no means incidental ; they are intimately connected with important elements of plot and action in the later tales.
Once the Earth is built and realized, the Ainur move into it.
The Ainulindalë ( Quenya, " Music of the Ainur ") is the first part of the fantasy work The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
In Tolkien's legendarium, the Ainur are Eä's divine beings.
The Music of the Ainur is later made manifest by a single-word command of Ilúvatar's.
gaze and out
`` Well, that's your business, Mr. Skyros '', said Angie, and his dreamy eyes moved past Mr. Skyros' shoulder to gaze vaguely out the ground-glass window.
Furthermore, Plutarch reports that at the next Olympic Games: " Themistocles entered the stadium, the audience neglected the contestants all day long to gaze on him, and pointed him out with admiring applause to visiting strangers, so that he too was delighted, and confessed to his friends that he was now reaping in full measure the harvest of his toils in behalf of Hellas.
One common suggestion is to simply look out of the window of the moving vehicle and to gaze toward the horizon in the direction of travel.
Often her gaze is directed out at the viewer, serving as an intercessor, or conduit for prayers that flow from the Christian, to Her, and only then, to Her Son.
3 km west you can gaze out to the cape of Agios Fokas, where foundations and columns stubs remain of the temple of Dionysos and an early Christian basilica.
" Bolland feels that " after my cover # 127 worked out the people at DC turned their gaze on London ... and particularly on the group of artists at 2000AD who had been weaned on the DC characters.
Some Culture Study scholars maintained that the construction of the category " folk " was born out of super-ordinate's essentialist gaze that de-sign-ates otherness in the form of a discipline, “ Folklore ” and " Folkloristics ".
" The final scene is a close-up of Laura's face, now amber-eyed, transitioning into Will howling at the moon as he completes his final metamorphosis, then back to Laura, fading out to her glowing, no-longer-human gaze.
These animated constructs were crafted to have predatory instincts by the Necrotects, they lurk beneath the desert sands ready to spring out and attack the unwary with their halberds while their deadly gaze can transform their foe into sand.
Unlike the couple, he looks out to meet the gaze of the viewer.
Desperate, Shatarupa leaped over him to stay out of his gaze even for a moment.
She later shows personal growth when she tries to knock Yugi out of his gaze.
As we might expect, Porphyro makes his way to the castle and braves entry, seeking out Angela, an elderly woman friendly to his family, and importuning her to lead him to Madeline's room at night where he may but gaze upon her sleeping form.
Before you can find out, he has you locked in his hypnotic gaze.
According to legend, she would be allowed to gaze out onto the square from the window of the room she was confined to for one hour a day, whence came the square's name.
“ I set out, as a philosopher, to work as a peer to the moral philosophers of the past, to create something new under the philosophical sun — under the gaze of Apollo, as it were — ‘ a new, an environmental ethic ,’ such as Richard Routley had warranted in 1973 .”
“ It is painful as well, because it means turning yourself inside out, giving up your own sense of who you are, and being willing to see yourself in the unflattering light of another's angry gaze .”
One of the ' Occidental Guests ', played by Björk, waits on another shore with her gaze directed out to sea.
Desperately wanting to get out from her family's watchful gaze, Lizzie sneaked out and went to the rave on Valentine's Day.
Author Donn Welton pointed out that the usual power relationship between the " voyeuristic male gaze and object " is destabilized by the portrayal of the male patrons of the peep show as leering and pathetic.
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