LYCOS RETRIEVER
Valar: Almaren Morgoth
built 273 days ago
Now the Isle of Almaren was destroyed, and the Valar moved to Aman, the Blessed Realm, and they took Valinor, the Guarded Realm, as their home. To protect themselves, they built the Pelóri, the Mountains of Defence, and upon them Manwë, the mightiest Valar, built his throne. Yavanna, the wife of Aulë, planted the Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin. These were later destroyed by Melkor, but they gave fruit one more time. The fruits were later known as Anar and Isil, the Sun and the Moon.
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During the Second Age, the Valar's main deeds were the creation of Númenor as a refuge for the Edain, who were denied access to Aman but given free rein over the rest of the world. Middle-earth was left abandoned by the Valar, with even Ulmo no longer giving aid, allowing for the rise of the Morgoth's lieutenant, Sauron, to power as a new Dark Lord. Near the end of the Second Age, Sauron convinced the Númenóreans to attack Aman itself.
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During the creation and shaping of Arda, Morgoth thwarted it and made it marred and imperfect, and while the Valar started to build their kingdom of Almaren Morgoth corrupted many of the Maiar. He then took them into the north of Middle-earth, and formed a union called The Dark Powers, and created rival kingdoms to Almaren; that of Utumno and that of Angband and Thangorodrim.
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The Valar accepted, and ... began the War of Wrath, where the host of the Valar assaulted Morgoth’s stronghold of Angband and battled with the great winged dragons. During the battle, the upheaval was so great that the entire land of Beleriand and the shape of Middle-earth was altered.
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The Valar constituted the angelic hosts of Ea (the World), wherein they had their own dwelling places, Almaren and Valinor in Aman, the blessed realm. From these dwelling places, some of them (two definitely, four possibly) journeyed to and fro from Middle Earth
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Behind the walls of the Pelóri the Valar established their domain in that region which is called Valinor; and there were their houses, their gardens, and their towers. In that guarded land the Valar gathered great store of light and all the rairest things that were saved from the ruin [of Almaren]; and many others yet fairer they made anew, and Valinor became more beautiful even than Middleearth in the Spring of Arda; and it was blessed, for the Deathless dwelt there, and there naught faded nor withered, neither was there any stain upon flower or leaf in that land, nor any corruption or sickness in anything that lived; for the very stones and waters were hallowed.
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