Apr 4, 2016 · The most powerful of the Valar, essentially polytheistic beings, are incapable of doing or thinking anything that Eru has not already forseen. So "power levels" don't even enter into it. Eru created the very idea of power as understood on Middle-earth. Since Tolkien viewed himself as a Sub-creator, Eru is more powerful than the author himself!

Sep 16, 2014 · Eru did not actually trip Gollum, but He made certain all the right conditions were there for the grand finale: He made certain that Sauron did not kill his captive, as he should have done. Gollum was captured in Mordor in the year 3017 and taken to Barad-dûr, and there questioned and tormented.

Apr 26, 2020 · Eru Ilúvatar means the “All Father” Eru 'The One', 'He that is Alone' Ilúvatar 'Father of All’ The Silmarillion, Index of Names. The name Ilúvatar is a compound of two words, Ilu/Ilúvë ("the all", "everything, the world") and atar ("father"). The name has existed in the legendarium as early as the Book of Lost Tales. In Qenya (note ...

Nov 26, 2021 · The will of Eru may not be gainsaid" and it seems that the Valar trust Eru's overall plan despite being ignorant of how it will unfold. In the most striking example of divine intervention, the bending of the World, we hear that "Manwë upon the Mountain called upon Ilúvatar, and for that time the Valar laid down their government of Arda ...

Apr 29, 2017 · Eru himself only really created three sentient races 1: Elves, Men, and the Ainur (the Valar and Maiar); Elves and Men are called the Children of Ilúvatar (and considered rather special) for exactly that reason. Why he felt the need to do this is unknown, but I for one am rather glad that he did.

Jan 16, 2015 · The will of Eru may not be gainsaid; and the Valar bid you earnestly not to withhold the trust to which you are called, lest soon it become again a bond by which you are constrained. Hope rather that in the end even the least of your desires shall have fruit. The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose.

Eru has the ability to speak to anyone, but it would be difficult for incarnates to hear him. Eru communicates via sanwe-latya, direct thought-transmission. This is a technique mainly employed by the valar, but it is also useable by men and elves, just that they'll have a much harder time perceiving nay communication.

However, both Melkor/Sauron play the role of the Adversary of Christianity in my opinion... while the analogy isn't perfect -- this is a work of adventure fiction -- Melkor/Sauron are defined by pride, seek power, think themselves right, seek to escape Eru's limitations, they were "born good" but "fell", the Ainur are angelic beings, etc.

Jan 21, 2019 · In-world, Eru is not a god that actively participates in the events inside his creation. In fact, not even all of the Ainur entered Eä. The Valar (the gods of Tolkien's world) are a subset of the Ainur. And Eru himself intervenes at a rate of about once per age. In the first age he created the races of elves and men. In the second age he sunk ...

Mar 30, 2022 · Eru is a Quenya name meaning "He that is Alone". Ilúvatar is Quenya for "the Father of All", more commonly referred to as Eru. The name Ilúvatar is a compound of two words, ilu and ilúvë "universe" and atar "father." In the earlier versions Ilúvatar was the main name of …