... although he is not as close to his people, creating the Ainur or "Holy Ones" to carry out His plan for Middle Earth. With the Ainur come a subgroup called the Valar who are the most powerful of the Ainur and each have a special authority over Middle Earth. Although this ... thus losing a great civilization and also drawing an irrefutable parallel with Tolkien's Numenor. Along with the setting of Tolkien's Middle Earth came the characters he had in The Lord of the Rings, many of which had counterparts in classical mythology. Stories can be broken down as basically as ... as a parallel t...

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