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Currently the Valar have true forms ranked as Low 2-C because of three quotes:
1.
"Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Il├║vatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Il├║vatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void."
2.
"Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound. But Il├║vatar sat and hearkened until it seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as of dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless wrath that would not be assuaged."
3.
"Then Il├║vatar spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Il├║vatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.'
Then the Ainur were afraid, and they did not yet comprehend the words that were said to them; and Melkor was filled with shame, of which came secret anger. But Il├║vatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him.
But when they were come into the Void, Il├║vatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it. And as they looked and wondered this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew."
In the above quotes, the Ainur ceate the universe and is laws, and Eru brings it into being in the Void.
However, there is one glaring issue with this: The work Valar, is never mentioned in the above quotes.
In all of these quotes it says stuff like this:
"Then the Ainur were afraid"
"Mighty are the Ainur"
"But Il├║vatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him"
"What is the diffrence between the Valar and the Ainur?" You might be asking, well, while the Valar are the fourteen strongest of the Ainur that went into Ea, the Ainur is a collective term for both the Valar and the Maiar.
Giving the Valar Low 2-C forms and not the Maiar is like giving Morgoth, Manwe and Varda Low 2-C forms, but no one else.
So, either the Low 2-C forms should be removed completely, or both Maiar and Valar should have them.
1.
"Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Il├║vatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Il├║vatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void."
2.
"Some of these thoughts he now wove into his music, and straightway discord arose about him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent, and their thought was disturbed and their music faltered; but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first. Then the discord of Melkor spread ever wider, and the melodies which had been heard before foundered in a sea of turbulent sound. But Il├║vatar sat and hearkened until it seemed that about his throne there was a raging storm, as of dark waters that made war one upon another in an endless wrath that would not be assuaged."
3.
"Then Il├║vatar spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Il├║vatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.'
Then the Ainur were afraid, and they did not yet comprehend the words that were said to them; and Melkor was filled with shame, of which came secret anger. But Il├║vatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him.
But when they were come into the Void, Il├║vatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it. And as they looked and wondered this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew."
In the above quotes, the Ainur ceate the universe and is laws, and Eru brings it into being in the Void.
However, there is one glaring issue with this: The work Valar, is never mentioned in the above quotes.
In all of these quotes it says stuff like this:
"Then the Ainur were afraid"
"Mighty are the Ainur"
"But Il├║vatar arose in splendour, and he went forth from the fair regions that he had made for the Ainur; and the Ainur followed him"
"What is the diffrence between the Valar and the Ainur?" You might be asking, well, while the Valar are the fourteen strongest of the Ainur that went into Ea, the Ainur is a collective term for both the Valar and the Maiar.
Giving the Valar Low 2-C forms and not the Maiar is like giving Morgoth, Manwe and Varda Low 2-C forms, but no one else.
So, either the Low 2-C forms should be removed completely, or both Maiar and Valar should have them.
