Valimar Style book: the Tolkien Quotes
Arth (Aulë) Karas
Valimar!
>From the Silmarillion (published JRRT)
She [Nienna] comes seldom to the city of Valimar where all is glad
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She [Nessa] dances in Valimar on lawns of never-fading green.
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Behind the walls of the Pelòri [mountains] 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 and the fairest things that
were saved from the ruin; and many others yet fairer they made anew,
and Valinor became more beautiful even than Middle-earth 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.
And when Valinor was full-wrought and the mansions of the Valar were
established, in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they built
their city, Valmar of many bells. Before its *western gate there was a
green mound, Ezellohar, that is named also Corollairë...
*(in Book of Lost Tales, Chritopher Tolkien says "western" was
editorial, that his father placed Ezellohar to the North, and he would
change it back if he had the choice. Arth)
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they [The Valar] sat silent upon their thrones of council in the
Máhanaxar, the Ring of Doom near to the golden gates of Valmar.
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For am I [Melkor] not Vala also? Yea, and more than those who sit in
pride in Valimar; and I have ever been a friend to the Noldor, most
skilled and most valiant of the people of Arda.
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Arth (Aulë) Karas
Part two of four sections of every Tolkien quote about Valimar!
My greatest thnnks for Phoenix for compling these. Arth
Morgoth's Ring (CT collection: extractions and expansions of JRRT's
work)
Morgoth's Ring References to Valimar/Valmar
Page 55
And it came to pass that, after Valinor was full wroght and the
mansions of the Valar were established and their gardens and woodlands
were arrayed, the Valar built their city in the midst of the plain
beyond the Pelori. That city they named Valmar the Blessed. And
before its western gate there was a green mound, and it was bare save
for a sward of unfading grass.
But the light that was spilled from the Trees endured long, ere it was
taken up into the airs or sank into the earth for their enrichment.
Therefore of its abundance Varda was wont to gather great store, and
it was hoarded in mighty vats nigh to the Green Mound. Thence the
Maiar would draw it and bring it to frith and field, even those far
removed from Valmar, so that all regions of Valinor were nourished and
waxed ever fairer.
Page 61
25-6 That the Trees grew on a green mound in a Ring of Doom is a new
detail, though the implication of QS 14 (V.209) is that the Trees were
in the Ring. The Ring and the Mound are here said to have been before
the western gate of Valmar; in the Lost Tales the Trees were to the
north of the city, and were moreover 'leagues asunder' from each other
( I.71, 143)
Page 81
55 The three Elf-lords were brought, therefore, to Valmar, and there
spoke with Manwe and the Valar; and they were filled with awe, but the
beauty and splendour of the land of Valinor overcame their fear, and
they desired the Light of the Trees.
Page 94
89 Then Melkor dwelt for a while in a humble house in Valmar under
vigilance, and was not yet suffered to walk abroad alone. But since
in that time all his words and works were fair, and he became in
outward form and seeming even as the Valar his brethren, Manwe gave
him freedom within Valinor. Yet Tulkas' mirth was clouded whenever he
saw Melkor pass by, and the nails of his fingers bit into the palms of
his hands, for the restraint that he put upon himself.
Page 97
103 And at that time, being himself in peril, Melkor departed,
consumed with wrath, and bitter vengeance he plotted for his shame.
But Finwe was filled with great fear, and in haste he sent messengers
to Manwe in Valmar.
Page 100
113 It is said that even as Feanor and Fingolfin stood before Manwe,
and it was the Mingling of the Lights and both Trees were shining and
the silent city of Valmar was filled with radiance as of silver and
gold, in that hour Melkor and Ungoliante came over the plain and stood
before the Green Mound.
Page 113
137 Little foresight could there be for those who dared to take so
dark a road. Yet all was done in over-haste; for Feanor drove them
on, fearing lest in the cooling of hearts his words should wane and
other counsels yet prevail. And for all his proud words he did not
forget the power of theValar. But from Valmar no message came, and
Manwe was silent.
Page 133
Therefore in the Kalakiryan they set strong towers and many sentinels;
and at its issue upon the plains of Valmar a host was encamped; for
the armouries of the Valar were opened, and the Maiar and the Sons of
the Valar were arrayed as for war.
Page 146
9 But mightier than she is Nienna, Manwe's sister and Melkor's. She
dwells alone. Pity is in her heart, and mourning and weeping come to
her; shadow is her realm and her throne hidden. For her halls are
west of West, night to the borders of the World and darkness [read the
Darkness]; and she comes seldom to Valmar, city of the gods, where all
is glad.
Page 154
13 Now in that guarded land the Valar gathered all light and all fair
things; and there are their houses, their gardens, and their towers.
In the midst of the plain beyond the Mountains was the City of the
Gods [>their city], Valmar the beautiful of many bells
14 In Valinor Yavanna hallowed the mould with mighty song, and Nienna
watered it with tears. In that time the gods [>Valar] were gathered
together, and they sat silent upon their thrones of council in the
Ring of Doom nigh unto the golden gates of Valmar the Blessed; and
Yavanna Palurien sang before them and they watched.
Page 172
It is told that the gods would leave their business, and the birds of
Valinor their mirth, that the bells of Valmar were silent and the
fountains ceased to flow , when at the mingling of the lights Melian
sang in Lorien.
Page 178
44 There they dwelt upon the long shores of Elvenhome [Elvenland], and
if they wished they could see the light of the Trees, and could visit
the golden streets of Valmar and the crystal stairs of Tirion upon the
Green Hill.
Page 186
Before the gates of Valmar Melkor abased himself at the feet of Manwe
and sued for pardon, promising that, if he might be made but the least
of the free folk of Valinor, he would aid the Valar in all their
deeds, and most of all in the healing of the many hurts that he had
wrought and now would work no more. And Nienna aided his prayer, but
Mandos was silent. Then Manwe granted him pardon; but the Valar would
not yet suffer him to depart from their sight and vigilance. He was
given, therefore, a humble dwelling within the gates of the city, and
put on trial; and he was not permitted to go more than one league from
Valmar, save by the leave of Manwe and with a guardian at his side.
Page 241
Then Nienna spoke, who came to Valmar seldom, but sat now upon the
left hand of Manwe. 'In the use of justice there must be Pity, which
is the consideration of the singleness of each that cometh under
Justice.
Sheri
Wonderful !! Thank you Arth!! Sheri/Vana
Arth (Aulë) Karas
Valimar!
from The Book of Lost Tales (posthumous JRRT, Ed CRT.) BOLT I
copyright 1983 & (additions from Del Rey)
Note: As an unpublished work, Lost Tales' content is often at
variance with the Silmarillopn. Regarding this extract, the city
called "Valimar" in The Silmarillion is called "Valmar" in Lost Tales,
with the same name as Valmar plain in both books. The name "Valimar"
is not used in Lost Tales. The large region containing these and
other features is called "Valinor". Love, Arth
Page 73 (pg 74)
"But in the plain in the full radiance of the trees was a cluster of
dwellings built like a fair and smiling town, and that town was named
Valmar. No metal and no stone, nor any wood of mighty trees was
spared to their raising. Their roofs were of gold and their floors of
silver and their doors of polished bronze; they were lifted with
spells and their stones were bound with magic."
Separate from these and bordering upon the open vale was a great
court, and this was Aulë's house, and it was filled with magic webs
woven from the [golden] light of Laurelin and the [silver] sheen of
Silipion and the glint of stars; but others there were made of threads
of gold and silver and iron and bronze beaten to the thinness of a
spider's filament, and all were woven with beauty in to stories of the
musics of the Ainur, picturing the things that were and shall be, or
such as have only been in the glory of the mind of Ilúvatar.
In this court were some of all the trees that after grew upon the
earth, and a pool of blue water lay among them. There fruits fell
throughout the day, thudding richly to the earth upon the grass of its
margin, and were gathered by Palúrien's maids for her feasting and her
lord's.
(pg 75) Tulkas.. dwelt amidmost of Valmar. Most youthful is he and
strong of limb and lusty, and thus that is he named Poldórëorea, who
loveth games and twanging of bows and boxing, wrestling, running, and
leaping and song that go with a swing and a toss of a well filled
cup. Nonetheless is he no wrangler or striker of blows unprovoked as
is Makar, albeit there are none of Valar or Úvanimor (who are
monsters, giants and ogres) that do not fear the sinews of his arm and
the buffet of his iron clad fist, when he has cause for wrath. His
was a house of mirth and revelry; and it sprang high into the air with
many storeys, and had a tower of bronze and pillars of copper in a
wide arcade. In its court men played and rivaled one another in
doughty feats, and there at times would that fair maiden Nessa wife of
Tulkas bear goblets of the goodliest wine and cooling drinks among the
players. But most of all she loves to retire to a place of fair lawns
whose turn Oromë her brother had culled for the richest of all his
forest glades, and Palúrien had planted it with spells that is was
always green and smooth. There danced she among her maidens as long
as Laurellin was in bloom, for is she not greater in dance than Vana
herself?
In Valmar too dwelt Noldorin [Noldor elves] known long ago as Salmar,
playing now upon his harps and lyres, now sitting beneath Laurellin
and raising sweet music with an instrument of the bow. There sang
Amillo joyously to his playing, Amillo who is named Omar, whose voice
is the best of all voices, who knoweth all the songs and speeches; but
whiles if he sang not to his brother's harp then would he be trilling
in the gardens of Oromë when after a time Nielíqui, little maiden,
danced about its woods.
(Pg 78-79) [Of the disposition of spirits of Men in the after-life]
Few are they and happy indeed for whom at a season doth Nornorë the
herald of Gods set out. Then ride they with him in chariots or upon
good horses it to the valve of Valinor and feast in the halls of
Valimar, dwelling in the houses of the Gods until the Great End come.
Far away are they from the black mountains of the North or the misty
plains of Arvalin, and music and fair light is theirs and joy.
And lo! Now I have recounted the manner of the dwellings of all the
Great Gods, which Aulë of his craftsmanship raised in Valinor.
((Part four of this series addresses (pg 83-84) a line drawing of a
1920's JRRT map of East Aman places Valmar. Briefly, north is the
hill of Two Trees. Further north are the Halls Melkor& Meassa and of
Mandos. South is Aulë's, then more plains. West is nothing (a
plain?) . East is Kor (later called Tirion-upon-Tuna), the City of
Elves, hard by the coast in a gap in the curving Mountains of
Valinor. ))
(Pg 93) (CRT commentary):
Of Valmar and the dwellings of the Valar in the city scarcely anything
survived in later writing, and there remains only phrases here and
there (the "golden streets" and "silver domes" of Valmar, "Valmar of
many bells, ") to suggest the solidity of the original description,
where Tulkas' house of many storeys had a tower of bronze, and Oromë's
halls were upheld my living trees with trophies and antlers hung upon
their trunks. ... Valimar certainly remained a city with gates, streets
and dwellings. But in the context of the later work one could hardly
conceive of the tempestuous Ossë being possessed of a house in Valmar,
even if the floor were of seawater and it's roof of foam; and of
course the hall of Makar and Meassë (where the life described owes
something to the myths of the Unending Battle in ancient Scandinavia)
disappeared with the disappearance of those divinities - a 'Melkor-
faction' in Valinor that was bound to prove and embarrassment.
(Pg 106) The noise of the great battles [in Middle Earth] of the
fiery beaches came roaring even through the Mountains of Valinor and
drowned the singing of the Gods.
(Pg 109) Manwë assented, saying that all their forces might scarce
dig Melko from his stronghold, whereas deceit must be very cunningly
woven that would ensnare the master of guile.... They wove a plan . . .
"Behold," said he, ..."Is he not then the greatest among us - why dwells
not the mightiest of the Valar in Valinor? Of a surety he has cause
for indignation. Let us go to Utumna and beseech him to swell in
Valinor that Valmar be not empty of his presence."
(Pg 111) After these things did the Gods return to Valmar by longs
ways and dark, guarding Melko every moment. ... Now is a court set
upon the slopes of Taniquetil and Melko arraigned before all the
Valar, great and small, lying bound before the silver chair of Manwë.
(Pg 121) Silpion at the time was glimmering and the roofs of Valmar
below were black and silver beneath its rays; and Varda . . . sis she
descend to Valmar and to the abode of Aulë...
Then he [Oromë] stands midway between the Two Trees and winds his horn
and the gates of Valmar are opened. ... "Yavanna answered me, ...
'Ilúvatar hath awakened the children at last - ride home to Valinor
and tell the Gods that the Eldar [elves] have come indeed.'"
(Pg 122) At length, it is the word of the Gods that some of the
newcomer Eldar be bidden to Valinor, there to speak with Manwë and his
people, telling of their coming into the world and of the desires it
awakened in them.
(Pg 125) Her (Yavanna's) heart thought of the fruitful orchards in
Valmar
(Pg 130) Ulmo returned to Valmar in wrath and dismay. There, he did
warn the other Valar . . .
(Pg 132) To Valmar he [Ossë] dare[d] not fare again for the power of
Ulmo in the councils of the Valar and the wrath of that mighty one.
(Pg 136) An opening in the mountains on those shores let through a
glimpse of Valinor and there stood the hill of Kor [later called
Tuna].
(Pg 137) They had ... crystal drops from all the sparkling founts in
the courts of Valmar.
(Pg 154) Melko dwelt as a servant in the house of Tulkas in those
days of the joy of the Eldalië [elves]; there did he nurse his hatred
of the Gods, and his consuming jealousy of the Eldar.
(Pg 156) Melko indeed was bidden to get him back to Mandos and there
dwell awhile in penitence, nor dare to walk in Valmar for many moons,
(Pg 156) A little stream, and its name was Híri, ran down from the
hills, northward of the opening to the coast there Kôr was built, and
it wandered thence across the plain no one knew whiter. Maybe it
found the Outer (western] Seas, for north of the roots of Silpion it
dived into the earth and there was a rugged place and a rock ringed
dale; [Sirnúmen]
(Pg 157) and the streets of Kor and all the ways of Valmar shone
still with gems and carven marbles telling of the days of the
happiness of the Gnomes [Noldor Elves]
(Pg 161) At length that daytide of festival is over and the Gods are
turned back towards Valmar, treading the white road from Kor. The
lights twinkle in the city of the Elves [Kor] and peace dwells there,
but the Noldoli fare over the plain to Sirnúmen sadly. Silpion is
gleaming in that your, and ere it wanes the first lament for the dead
that was head in Valinor rises from that rocky vale.... Then messengers
ride hastily to Valmar bearing tidings of their deeds, and there they
find Manwë, for he has not yet left that town for his abode upon
Taniquetil.
Then said Manwë ... but of more worth that all the glory of Valinor and
all the grace and beauty of Kor is peace and happiness and wisdom, and
these, once lost, are harder to recapture."
(Pg 162) Therefore he [Melko in the wastes of Arvalin] sent a
messenger claiming inviolable right of a herald (albeit this was a
renegade servant of Mandos whom Melko had perverted) over the pass to
Valinor, and there, standing before the gates of Valmar he demanded
audience of the Gods; and it was asked of him whence he came, and he
said from Ainu Melko, and Tulkas would have hurled stones at him from
the walls and slain him, but the others as yet suffered him not to be
mishandled, but despite their anger and loathing they admitted him to
the great square of gold that was before Aulë's courts.
(Pg 163) "Soon I [Aulë} and Tulkas fill that pass that leads to
Erumani and the seas, that Melko come not ever that way hither
again." But Manwë and Aulë plan to set guards about all those
mountains until such time as Melkor's seeds an places of abode without
become known.
(Pg 198) He [Aulë] had loves Valmar most wholly and Kor and all their
treasures, and the smile of the fair plains without and it's ruin cut
his heart.
Page 184 (pg 206): "Then sped Vana a little way out upon the plain,
and she lifted up her sweet voice with all her power and it came
trembling faintly to the gates of Valmar"
Page 193: (pg 216) "Hence was it that a pool was builded hard by the
dark southern wall of Valmar, and of silver and white marbles were its
walls, but dark yews shut it in, being planted in a maze most
intricate about it. There Lorien hoarded the pale dewy light of that
fair Rose [of Silpion, the Silver Tree], and he named it the Lake
Irtinsa
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"Valimarian Oromeh & his home"
Re: Valimar, the City of Bells, home of the Valar and Maiar, who love
the sound of flowing water
Page 73 (pg 74)
But in the plain in the full radiance of the trees was a cluster of
dwellings built like a fair and smiling town, and that town was named
Valmar. No metal and no stone, nor any wood of mighty trees was
spared to their raising. Their roofs were of gold and their floors of
silver and their doors of polished bronze; they were lifted with
spells and their stones were bound with magic.
Re: Oromë
Page 66
Oromë the hunter who is named Aldaron king of forests, who shouts for
joy upon mountain-tops and is nigh as lusty as that perpetual youth
Tulkas. Oromë is the son of Aulë and Palùrien.
Page 76
in Valimar his halls are wide and low, and the skins and fells of
great richness and price are strewn there without end upon the floor
or hung upon the walls, and spears and bows and knives thereto. In
the midst of each room and hall a living tree grows and holds up the
roof, and its bole is hung with trophies and with antlers. Here is
all Oromë's folk in green and brown and there is a noise of boisterous
mirth, and the lord of forests makes lusty cheer; but Vàna his wife
so often as she may steals thence.
from The Book of Lost Tales - One (posthumous JRRT, Ed CRT.)
copyright 1983 (Del Rey Publications)
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"Valimarian Tulkas and his home"
is entirley drawn fomr the above and this thread.
Note to self: Edit this thread to several pages