enanoakd:The lost Ainur are the Valar whom Tolkien wrote about in earlier works, but dropped by the

enanoakd:The lost Ainur are the Valar whom Tolkien wrote about in earlier works, but dropped by the time he wrote the Silmarillion. Some were actual Valar from outside Arda who sang Arda into existence. Some were children of these Valar who came into existence on the created Arda. After dropping the idea of the Valar’s having children and inventing the concept of Maiar, these characters had to be changed. Some, such as Eonwë, became Maiar. Even some non-children disappeared completely from the storyline, and those are the ones depicted in this graphic. -- source link

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