
According to Physics (HAWKING, 2017), time originated at the Big Bang. According to some religions, time originated at the moment God created the universe. Arda’s time originated with the music sung by the Ainur and the counting of the days begun with Anar. In the following, I would like to offer a series of thoughts on the phenomenon of time comparing The Lord of The Rings Online ( Lotro ) , released by Turbine Inc. and now maintained by Standing Stone Games, to Tolkien’s Arda. Also, I would like to introduce ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Games
2019 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO | Abusões

Raphael Soares Sales, Marco Antônio Villarta-Neder, Fábio Luiz de Castro Dias,
... principais personagens no primeiro momento do capítulo chamado Ainulindalë, de O Silmarillion (2019), obra de John Ronald ...
Tópico(s): Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
2023 - | IPOTESI – REVISTA DE ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS
... accounts of The Silmarillion and in particular, the Ainulindale. (5) In The Writing of History, for example, ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2015 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
This article is about J. R. R. Tolkien's adaptation of Pythagorean musical elements in the ‘Song of the Ainur’ of the Silmarillion. It details Tolkien's use of Pythagorean dissonance, along with what that amounts to in terms of musical theory, and explores the epistemological origins of the concept and how it found its way into this work of fiction. On the latter point, Platonism, Neoplatonism, and early Christian theology are considered. This includes the likes of Prudentius, pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2024 - Cambridge University Press | Greece and Rome
... mythology can call the Ainur 'pagan' " (LT1:248).Ainulindalë noun "Music of the Ainur" (SA:lin #2), ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2021 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
... Dualism in The Silmarillion Carrol Fry (bio) In “Ainulindalë,” the opening segment of J.R.R. Tolkien’ ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2015 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... making of Middle-Earth in his creation myth, Ainulindale; Melkor's attempts at creation within Middle-Earth; ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2009 - | Journal of the fantastic in the arts
... II. Beyond the Music of the Ainur The Ainulindalë, the opening narration of The Silmarillion, talks of ... revealed as the Children of Ilúvatar. Thus, the Ainulindalë illustrates that there is a Creator and lesser ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2022 - University of St. Thomas | logos
... 2 dwells upon this subject, comparing Tolkien's "Ainulindalë" with the Genesis Creation story and Dante's ... which he narrates the creation of Arda. His "Ainulindalë" (Music of the Ainur, a musical myth by ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2022 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... into the Void, and it was not void (“Ainulindalë” S 15). Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind, along ... origins outside of the created world itself. The “Ainulindalë,” then, does more than express how Arda came ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2011 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... allá de la Música de los Ainur El Ainulindalë, la narración de apertura de El Silmarillion, habla ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2022 - University of St. Thomas | logos
... of Leithian," evincing the increasing influence of the "Ainulindalë" on Tolkien's imagination. Petra Zimmermann writes strikingly ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2021 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... a partial similarity” (4), reading, for example, the Ainulindalë as if it had no parallels outside the ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2016 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... same way that cosmogony was central in the Ainulindalë. The Valar rule in favor of Finwë's ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2012 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... so would Melkor undo it or corrupt it” (“Ainulindalë” S 22). Given this, it is altogether appropriate ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2011 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... light. Beginning with the Flame Imperishable in the "Ainulindalë" (which Lauro, citing [End Page 273] Tolkien's ...
Tópico(s): Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
2009 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... through all of The Silmarillion, beginning with the "Ainulindalë" and proceeding on until the end of the " ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2009 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... and the later (late 1940s) version of the "Ainulindalë." In this chapter, the author stresses the disappearance ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... Tolkien's oeuvre: the unfinished music of the "Ainulindalë." One of the book's essential strengths is ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2006 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies