Valar Guild

October 3, 2021 Sunday Meeting

Landroval server:
Bregalad
Eonwe
Fangorn
Irmo
Luthien
Nar
Varda

Anor server:
Eonwe
Fangorn
Varda

Shadowfax server:
Varda

Treebeard server:
Arien
Varda

"Though the Numenoreans used horses for journeys and for the delight of riding they had little interest in racing them as a test of speed. In country sports or displays of agility, both of horse and rider, were to be seen; but more esteemed were exhibitions of understanding between master and beast. The Numenoreans trained their horses to hear and understand calls (by voice or whistling) from great distances; and also, where there was great love between men or women and their favorite steeds, they could (or so it is said in ancient tales) summon them at need by their thought alone."

"[Women's] great delight was in dancing (in which many men also took part) at feasts or in leisure time. Many women achieved great fame as dancers, and people would go on long journeys to see displays of their art."

"Shooting with bows was one of the great sports and pastimes of men; and one in which young women also took part."

Lo, there is but one ocean, and that is Vai, for those that Ossë esteemeth as oceans are but seas, waters that lie in the hollows of the rock... In this vast water floweth the wide earth upheld by the world of Ilúvatar...
BoLT 1, "The Coming of the Valar"

"naltalma, the name of an Eldarin device for signalling from afar (like a heliograph, though it is said to have been also usable in a clear moon). It's form and the manner of manipulating it are not recorded, but it must have contained a bright surface. It was however evidently small, able to be slipped into a slender pouch or pocket, and the flash that it gave would not have been visible by human eyes, at any rate not at a distance."

1.) (Cutting out asides to shorten it:) "All minds are equal in status, though they differ in capacity and strenth A mind by its nature perceives another mind directly. But it cannot perceive more than the existence of another mind except by the will of both parties. The degree of will however, need not be the same in both parties.
     If we call one mind G (as in guest) and the other H (as in host), then G must have full intention to inspect H or to inform it. But knowledge may be gained or imparted by G, even when H is not seeking or intending to impart or to learn: the act of G will be effective, if H is simply 'open'. This distinction, he says, if of the greatest importance."

2.)"'Openness' is the natural or simple state of a mind that is not otherwise engaged. In 'Arda Unmarred' (that is, the ideal condition free from evil) openness would be the normal state. Nonetheless any mind may be closed. This requires an act of conscious will: Unwill. It may be made against G, against G and some others, or be a total retreat into privacy.
Though in 'Arda Unmarred' openness is the normal state, every mind has, from its first making as an individual, the right to close; and it has the absolute power to make this effective by will. Nothing can penetrate the barrier of Unwill."

3.) "All these things, says Pengolodh, are true of all minds, from the Ainur in the presence of Eru, or the great Valar such as Manwë and Melkor, to the Maiar in Ea, and down to the least of the Mirroanwi (Eonwë's note: Incarnates like Men and Elves). But different states bring in limitations, which are not fully controlled by the will."

"For distance in itself offers no impediment whatever..."

"In later days, in the wars upon Middle-Earth... in those days the great cohorts of the King's Archers used bows made of hollow steel, with black-feathered arrows a full ell long from point to notch."

GAME tyalië (sport, play) -TYAL/LT1:260