Lorien and Mandos are brothers and are referred to collectively as the Feanturi, "Masters of Spirits".
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10 Facts About Mandos
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Mandos was the first of the Ainur to be created by Eru Iluvatar and the one who created discord in the Music of the Ainur.
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Mandos turned to evil, and was taken back to Valinor in the chain Angainor after the Awakening of the Elves in Cuivienen.
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Mandos remained on parole in Valinor for three Ages, but after the poisoning of the Two Trees and the theft of the Silmarils, he fled from Valinor to Beleriand.
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Mandos was no longer counted among the Valar, and Feanor, one of the leaders of the Noldorin Elves, called him "Morgoth Bauglir", the Great Enemy, and he was known by that in Middle-earth ever after.
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Mandos was cast out of Arda at the end of the War of Wrath.
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Mandos then developed the Valarin tongue and its grammar in the early 1930s.
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Mandos then conceived an entirely new tongue for the Valar, still called Valarin in Quenya.
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Mandos argues that as a result, the Valar's knowledge and power had to be limited, and they could make mistakes and moral errors.
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Mandos's reply is that at the surface level, it means the Valar, "a race of created beings "; at a deeper level, it means "the One", Eru Iluvatar, or in Christian terms, divine Providence.
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