... reminded of the wonderful concerto grosso with which Tolkien's Silmarillion opens, the music of Ainur. Melkor wants to disturb and disrupt the rhythm, ...
Tópico(s): Empathy and Medical Education
2015 - Wiley | Modern Theology
... a creator god and the music of the Ainur strongly evoke the notion of providence and, consequently, raise the question how it works.3 Although human free will in Tolkien's work is denied by no scholar I ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2010 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... a central dynamic in "The Music of the Ainur," a foundational myth in Tolkien's legendarium. Because it was one of his ... Tolkien's creativity. McIntosh makes the case that Tolkien expressed fundamental aspects of his worldview in this work. To create Arda, Ilúvatar reveals to the Ainur a great musical theme and requests that they ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2019 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... the depths and into the heights” (15). The Ainur are given a vision of the symphony’s creation: Arda or Eä (Tolkien’s names for the earth and material creation); the Elves, or the First Born; and the Followers, or humanity. When many of the Ainur express their love for Arda, Ilúvatar decrees that “ ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2015 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... 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 ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2024 - Cambridge University Press | Greece and Rome
... VT43:32, the word is "obsolete, except in Ainur", apparently suggesting that airë or airëa (q.v.) was the normal term for "holy" in later Quenya.However, Tolkien repeatedly used aina in his translation of the ... the Valar and Maiar, made before Eä"; pl.Ainur is attested.Adopted and adapted from Valarin (WJ:399).In the early "Qenya Lexicon", ainu was glossed "a pagan god", and aini was similarly "a pagan goddess", but as Christopher Tolkien notes, "Of course no one within the context of the mythology can call the Ainur 'pagan' " (LT1:248).Ainulindalë noun "Music of the ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2021 - Q15088586 | Zootaxa
Produção Nacional
... and now maintained by Standing Stone Games, to Tolkien’s Arda. Also, I would like to introduce the idea that while time is originated both by the wonderful beings Ainur and Anar in the book, the player is ... and now maintained by Standing Stone Games, to Tolkien’s Arda. Also, I would like to introduce the idea that while time is originated both by the wonderful beings Ainur and Anar in the book, the player is ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Games
2019 - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO | Abusões
... some point, Melkor, the most gifted of the Ainur, started to introduce his own perspective, which was not in accord with the themes of God, who is named Ilúvatar in Tolkien’s text. Consequently, the music suffered some imbalances that influenced some other Ainur for the worse, and Ilúvatar himself took part ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2022 - University of St. Thomas | logos
... cierto punto, Melkor, el más agraciado de los Ainur, comenzó a introducir su propia perspectiva, que no estaba acorde con los temas de Dios, quien es llamado Ilúvatar en el texto de Tolkien. Consecuentemente, la música sufrió algunos desequilibrios que influyeron en algunos otros Ainur para mal, e Ilúvatar mismo tomó parte en ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2022 - University of St. Thomas | logos
... Beings," Whittingham traces the various incarnations of the Ainur, the Maia and the Valar from "The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor" (1918-1920) to the "Valaquenta" (late 1950s), noting that ". . . Tolkien's initial description of these divine...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... simultaneously, causes form to be. Ilúvatar and the Ainur, including Melkor, inhabit the insubstantial Void before creation and, from there, create Arda (the world Tolkien’s Elves, Men, Hobbits and others will inhabit) ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2011 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... the book. As readers of The Silmarillion know, Tolkien’s universe is born of a song, or something like unto a song, composed by the Ainur, including Melkor. Through Melkor’s theme, the song, ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2011 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... On Fairy-stories." Bertoglio spends some time comparing Tolkien's poetry to passages from Genesis and moves on to specific musical symbolisms with which he narrates the creation of Arda. His "Ainulindalë" (Music of the Ainur, a musical myth by which the Elves express ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2022 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; ... of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur." So what does this really imply? As readers ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2021 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies