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Valinor is the home of the Valar (singular Vala), spirits that often take humanoid form, sometimes called "gods" by the Men of Middle-earth. [T 11] Other residents of Valinor include the related but less powerful spirits, the Maiar, and most of the Elves. [T 12] Each Vala has his or her own region of the land.
The Old Straight Road allows the Elves to sail from Middle-earth to Valinor.. The Old Straight Road, the Straight Road, the Lost Road, or the Lost Straight Road, is J. R. R. Tolkien's conception, in his fantasy world of Arda, that his Elves are able to sail to the earthly paradise of Valinor, realm of the godlike Valar.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor, a paradisiacal realm where angelic beings live. The Two Trees are of enormous stature, and exude dew that is a pure and magical light in liquid form.
Fëanor was the most skilful craftsman of the First Age, forging the three Silmarils to capture some of the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Celebrimbor followed his father and grandfather to Middle-earth, leaving his mother behind in Aman with Finarfin's people. He repudiated his father when Celegorm and Curufin were driven out of Nargothrond.
Ainur (Valar, Maiar) of Valinor: Archangels, Angels of Heaven: Pantheon of Olympian Gods: Æsir of Asgard and Vanir of Vanaheim: Manwë, a Vala: Michael the Archangel, an Angel: Zeus, one of the Olympian Gods: Odin, one of the Æsir Morgoth, a fallen Vala Sauron, a fallen Maia: The Devil, a fallen Angel — Loki, a fallen member of the Æsir
Kings of the Noldor in Valinor High Kings of the Noldor in exile in Middle-earth § These figures do not appear in the published Silmarillion. The family tree as presented follows Tolkien's late note The Shibboleth of Fëanor. ¶ In the published Silmarillion, Orodreth is Finarfin's second son (and still Finduilas' father), and Gil-galad is Fingon's son. References Primary ^ Tolkien 1977, ch ...
The palantírs were made by the Elves of Valinor in the First Age, as told in The Silmarillion. By the time of The Lord of the Rings at the end of the Third Age , a few palantírs remained in use. They are used in some climactic scenes by major characters: Sauron , Saruman , Denethor the Steward of Gondor , and two members of the Company of the ...
In the Years of the Trees, Arda was lit by the Two Trees of Valinor. Melkor damaged the trees, and Ungoliant drained them of their sap [T 2]. Tolkien's original writings say that Ungoliant was a primeval spirit of night, named Móru, [T 3] who aided Melkor in his attack upon the Two Trees of Valinor, draining them of their sap after Melkor had injured them.