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Oromë

Aldaron; the Great Rider; the Hunter; Araw

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Oromë the Great Rider

Names and Titles

  • Oromë — “the Great Rider”; in Quenya Aldaron (“Lord of the Forests”), called in the mixed tongue Araw among the Sindar. -

“The Lord of the Forests and the Huntsman of the Valar; he loves the horses and the hounds, and rides through the wild lands of the world, blowing his great horn.”

Dominion and Character

Oromë is the Vala of the wilderness: of the hunt, the forest, the open land, and the untamed beasts. “He is very valiant… and in anger is terrible.” He is the last of the great Valar to be wed

— to Vána, the Ever-young — and the brother of Nessa.

  • His steed is Nahar, the gleaming white horse of the Valar — “the horse of Oromë… the greatest of the horses of the Valar”, shod with gold, whose hooves ran without leaving trace and whose neighing was like trumpets. In the earliest tradition Nahar is described as the white horse whose shoes were of silver and gold, and (in the Vanyarin lore) as shining with the light of his master’s gold.
  • His horn is the great Valaróma, “the horn of Oromë, whose echo reached… the deeps of the earth”; its blast when he hunted enemies was the summons of the Valar.

Deeds in the Tale

  • Finder of the Elves: While the Valar withdrew after the darkening of the Lamps, Oromë alone “passed through the forests of Middle-earth” — and at Cuiviénen, the Water of Awakening, he came upon the newly-woken Elves, the Quendi.

This is one of the hinge-moments of the whole history: “the first of the Valar to see the Children, and his glance had power”. His report decided the Valar’s great war against Melkor and the diversion of the Awakening.

In the Texts

Present from the beginning (Book of Lost Tales:), his discovery of the Elves at Cuiviénen is told in the Quenta chapter “Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor”. The Sindarin form “Araw” and the traditions of the early Men about him are treated in the Lhammas and in Unfinished Tales, with Christopher Tolkien’s commentary on the divergence of the Nandorin and Telerin traditions.

Verknüpfte Seiten

VánaNessaNaharValarómaCuiviénenTulkasThe Great JourneyConcordance — A to ZValarHuanThe War for the Sake of the ElvesThe Great Journey of the EldarTilionYavannaMelkorUtumnoQuenta 3 — Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of MelkorCelegormElvesAvari
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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