Vala (Middle-earth) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-13

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00:00:56 1 Origin and acts
00:06:41 2 List of the Valar
00:08:05 2.1 Lords
00:08:13 2.1.1 Manwë
00:08:46 2.1.2 Ulmo
00:09:14 2.1.3 Aulë
00:10:11 2.1.4 Oromë
00:11:23 2.1.5 Mandos
00:13:21 2.1.6 Lórien
00:14:20 2.1.7 Tulkas
00:15:06 2.2 Queens
00:15:14 2.2.1 Varda
00:15:52 2.2.2 Yavanna
00:16:40 2.2.3 Nienna
00:17:26 2.2.4 Estë
00:17:55 2.2.5 Vairë
00:18:16 2.2.6 Vána
00:19:01 2.2.7 Nessa
00:19:26 2.3 Others
00:19:34 2.3.1 Melkor
00:20:41 3 Relationships between Valar
00:21:28 4 Concept and creation
00:23:14 5 Valarin, the tongue of the Valar
00:23:24 5.1 External history
00:24:04 5.2 Internal story
00:25:54 6 Comparison with the Eldila of C.S. Lewis
00:27:07 7 See also



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The Valar [ˈvalar] (singular Vala) are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. They are "angelic powers" or "gods" subordinate to the one God (Eru Ilúvatar); they are the most powerful of the Ainur who chose to go into the World (Arda) and complete its material development after its form was determined by the Music of the Ainur (Ainulindalë). For this reason they are also referred to as "the Powers of the World." They are mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, but were developed earlier in material published posthumously in The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth.
The term Valar is applied occasionally by Tolkien to include all of the Ainur who entered the world, but more frequently to refer specifically to the fourteen most powerful of them, the "Lords and Ladies of the Valar".