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.

Nienna is the only Vala of female appearance who was not married, similarly to Ulmo among the male counterparts.

He lived in the gardens of Irmo under the tutelage of Nienna, the patron of mercy.

He also lived for a time in Lórien, but he studied pity and patience under Nienna.

In The Book of Lost Tales Nienna was named Fui or Qalmë-Tári and was married to Vefántur ( Mandos ), to whom she was not related in that context.

Gandalf's rebuke of Frodo for wishing death upon Gollum in The Fellowship of the Ring is obliquely attributed in The Silmarillion to Gandalf's having been a disciple of Nienna in Valinor ( Chapter 2, " Valaquenta "): " Wisest of the Maiar was Olórin ... is ways took him often to the house of Nienna, and of her he learned pity and patience.

Nienna wept on the mound of Ezellohar, watering it with her tears.

They grew in the presence of all of the Valar, watered by the tears of Nienna.

Nienna – ( possibly ‘ The Weeper ’ or ‘ The Mourner ’) She is the sister of the Fëanturi.

But he is specially attached to Nienna, who is herself a major cultivator of the ironic triumph of Fate.

Nienna is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

Nienna is considered one of the most powerful of the female Valar, alongside Varda and Yavanna.

All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.

She lived a lonely life, not able to be seen with the King since no formal presentation had taken place.

Sakasamano Niji, is a song about a lonely person who probably lived a life without someone loving her ( in which points out to be a girl ).

Following the sojourn of her husband to Isfahan for his safety she lived a lonely life with the mother of the Báb and her closest companion an African servant named Fiddih.

On Coorain she lived a lonely life, and grew up without playmates except for her brothers.

" Also a man who helps poor people make claims: " a master of claims and benefits, a poor man's lawyer in fact ", helping " a poverty-stricken illiterate ", and " men who have put their hopes on horses-men that have lived beyond their women, and those who were always too ill-shaped to love, and so loved drink ... and laughing men, who have boozed their dead wives club money, and those that sleep late and stand waiting for opening time ", for " drinking men often die lonely deaths, those who have forsaken women and have died in their camaraderie of booze.

She was said to have lived lonely and converted to Christianity after she returned from USA and also ate Pork because she found not eating Pork as Racist.

As Kierkegaard lived by his own word he was lonely and much ridiculed during his lifetime.

Violet obliged and apparently lived a lonely and sad life with her mother until Annie died at 98 years of age in 1954.

Appollonius tells her she will never be married and will live a lonely, meaningless existence, having accomplished so little she might as well have never lived at all.

He lived quietly and lonely, after his wife's early death, in Vienna until his own death in 1957.

Another dismissed myth was that in the region where Mrauk U was to be constructed, lived a lonely female monkey.

Erkki Rapo lived a rather nomadic, lonely life.

According to one of Tolkien's outlines, Tolfalas was originally a far greater island, but in the floods following the Downfall of Númenor it " was almost destroyed, and was left at last like a barren and lonely mountain in the water ".</ div >

In the hymn, the supplicant entreats her to explain how she wanders so far from the fringe of civilisation without becoming afraid or lonely.

According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Tsala Apopka Lake and thought the area looked like the headlands and lochs of Inverness, Scotland, deserving the name Inverness.

Van is also depicted as being more lonely and emotionally reserved, as well as being far more aggressive and willing to slay any perceived enemies than his more pacifistic series counterpart.

Thus even for those far from home, the sight of someone familiar only from the commons might be comforting to a homesick or lonely traveller.

Also featured: A first date that ends painfully, more jokes from Tron, a lonely lesbian searches for a friend in the park, a psychic reading goes too far when Chu Chi accuses an innocent bystander of being a murderer.

The base of a small tower, built either by the Cheynes in the 14th century or the Gunns in the 15th century, lies on a rock above the river Thurso in a lonely position far inland.

Stationed in Japan, far from his financee Molly, Lt. Reggie Fairfax of the Royal Navy is lonely.

Women, as you must know, have a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men.

The lonely Bluestone Heath Road follows the course of an ancient drove road from west to east across the Wolds, and several " A " roads also run through the AONB.

In 1897 Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and two companions tried to reach the North Pole in the hydrogen balloon Örnen (" Eagle "), but were stranded north of Kvitøya, the northeasternmost part of the Svalbard archipelago, and perished on this lonely island.

Another notable landmark is the only complete nineteenth century lighthouse complex open to the public in California, set on a lonely, windswept hill that looks like an island in the fog.

* Hebridean Symphony ( 1913, dedicated to Raymond Bantock, prefixed with the poem: From the lonely shieling of the misty island / Mountains divide us and the mist of seas / Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is highland / And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.

It is said that on a lonely island, assuming nobody else would hear him, he gave the knowledge of hatha yoga to Goddess Parvati, but a fish heard the entire discourse, remaining still throughout.

The story's two protagonists – feuding spacemen of the future who are of distant Scandinavian origin and one of whom ( the bad guy ) is historically conscious – decide to revive this Viking tradition, resorting to a deadly holmgang on a lonely asteroid instead of a sea island, in order to settle their irreconcilable differences over a tangled issue involving crime, politics and a woman's love.

Hattifatteners travel the sea in small boats, meeting every year on a lonely island.

It is probable that he resigned his see after a few years, and retired to end his life on the lonely island in Donegal Bay which has ever since borne his name, Inishmurray.

This lonely island has been always uninhabited, even between the 17th and the 20th century when there were coconut plantations in other islands of the Chagos.

It was fired towards the tracking station built on the lonely island of St Kilda

The island ( size: 2000 x 1700 m ) belongs to the Northeast Group of the Savage Islands, which comprises in addition three islets: Sinho Islet (, diminutive of só, " lonely ", maybe a pun on the same pronounced Ilheucinho, " Little Islet ), Palheiro do Mar, and Palheiro de Terra.

In 1873 the German Eduard Dallmann was the first to land on the island, and reported it ' a lonely place '.