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J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
's fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 legendarium
Legendarium

Legendary may refer to:*A legend*A hagiography, or study of the lives of saints and other religious figures**The South English Legendary, a Middle English legendary...
, Arien is the maiden whom the Valar
Vala (Middle-earth)

The Valar are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Tolkien's legendarium. They are first mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, but The Silmarillion develops them into the Powers of Arda or the Powers of the World....
 chose from among the Maiar
Maia (Middle-earth)

The 'Maiar' are beings from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy Tolkien's legendarium. They are lesser Ainu who entered E? in the beginning of time. Tolkien uses the term Vala ...
 to guide the vessel of the Sun. In the Days of the Trees
Years of the Trees

In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Years of the Trees is one of the three great time-periods of Arda. They follow the Years of the Lamps and precede the Years of the Sun, and are known to comprise several Ages, including the beginning of the First Age....
 in Valinor
Valinor

Valinor is a fictional location from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the realm of the Vala in Aman. It was also known as the Undying Lands, as only immortal souls were allowed to reside there; amongst the exceptions to this were the surviving bearers of the One Ring ? Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins and also Samwise, who bore the One Ring f...
, Arien had been the one to tend the tree of Laurelin. It is said that she is mightier than Tilion
Tilion

In the fantasy world of famous English author J. R. R. Tolkien, there was a youth in the world of Middle-earth named Tilion whom the Vala chose from among the Maia to steer the island of the Moon ....
, the Maia chosen to guide the Moon, because she is a spirit of fire, and able to withstand the heats of Laurelin.

"Too bright were the eyes of Arien for even the Eldar to look on, and leaving Valinor she forsook the form and raiment which like the Valar she had worn there, and she was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendor." (The Silmarillion)


In writings by Tolkien, Tilion is said to have been in love with Arien, and because he sought her out the Moon was scarred by the sun's heat.

In other writings, Morgoth
Morgoth

Morgoth Bauglir is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien?s Middle-earth legendarium. He is the main antagonist of The Silmarillion, figures in The Children of H?rin, and is mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings....
 wanted to claim Arien as a wife, and ravished her, upon which she abandoned her body and 'died', leaving the Sun to travel through the skies uncontrollably and burning parts of Arda
Arda

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed....
 the world.






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In J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Order of the British Empire was an English people English literature, poetry, Philology, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion....
's fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 legendarium
Legendarium

Legendary may refer to:*A legend*A hagiography, or study of the lives of saints and other religious figures**The South English Legendary, a Middle English legendary...
, Arien is the maiden whom the Valar
Vala (Middle-earth)

The Valar are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Tolkien's legendarium. They are first mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, but The Silmarillion develops them into the Powers of Arda or the Powers of the World....
 chose from among the Maiar
Maia (Middle-earth)

The 'Maiar' are beings from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy Tolkien's legendarium. They are lesser Ainu who entered E? in the beginning of time. Tolkien uses the term Vala ...
 to guide the vessel of the Sun. In the Days of the Trees
Years of the Trees

In J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Years of the Trees is one of the three great time-periods of Arda. They follow the Years of the Lamps and precede the Years of the Sun, and are known to comprise several Ages, including the beginning of the First Age....
 in Valinor
Valinor

Valinor is a fictional location from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the realm of the Vala in Aman. It was also known as the Undying Lands, as only immortal souls were allowed to reside there; amongst the exceptions to this were the surviving bearers of the One Ring ? Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins and also Samwise, who bore the One Ring f...
, Arien had been the one to tend the tree of Laurelin. It is said that she is mightier than Tilion
Tilion

In the fantasy world of famous English author J. R. R. Tolkien, there was a youth in the world of Middle-earth named Tilion whom the Vala chose from among the Maia to steer the island of the Moon ....
, the Maia chosen to guide the Moon, because she is a spirit of fire, and able to withstand the heats of Laurelin.

"Too bright were the eyes of Arien for even the Eldar to look on, and leaving Valinor she forsook the form and raiment which like the Valar she had worn there, and she was as a naked flame, terrible in the fullness of her splendor." (The Silmarillion)


In writings by Tolkien, Tilion is said to have been in love with Arien, and because he sought her out the Moon was scarred by the sun's heat.

In other writings, Morgoth
Morgoth

Morgoth Bauglir is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien?s Middle-earth legendarium. He is the main antagonist of The Silmarillion, figures in The Children of H?rin, and is mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings....
 wanted to claim Arien as a wife, and ravished her, upon which she abandoned her body and 'died', leaving the Sun to travel through the skies uncontrollably and burning parts of Arda
Arda

In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Arda is the name given to the Earth in a period of prehistory, wherein the places mentioned in The Lord of the Rings and related material once existed....
 the world. It is also stated in other abandoned writings that she is a Maia of Varda
Varda

Varda Elent?ri is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Tolkien's legendarium....
. It is not clear if it was Tolkien's intent to keep these elements in The Silmarillion, had he lived long enough to publish it.

Other fiery spirits


It is said that the most powerful of Morgoth's servants, Balrogs, were the spirits of the same kind as Arien, yet they had been seduced by the Dark Lord. The Maia Olórin is also frequently associated with fire. Nothing is known about the other fiery spirits.

See also

  • Sowilo
    Sowilo

    S?l or Sunna is the solar deity in Germanic mythology. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations, written in the 9th or 10th century CE, attests that Sunna is the sister of Sinthgunt....