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thought of Eru ere the devising of the World, and Tulkas came
fast to the kingdom of Arda. The queens of the Valar are seven:
Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Vaire, Vana, Nessa, and Uinen. No
less in might and majesty are they than the chieftains, and they
sit ever in the councils of the Valar.
$3 Varda was Manwe's spouse from the beginning, but
Aule espoused Yavanna, her sister, in Ea.(3) Vana the fair, her
younger sister, is the wife of Orome; and Nessa, the sister of
Orome, is Tulkas' wife; and Uinen, lady of the seas, is the
spouse of Osse. Vaire the Weaver dwells with Mandos. No
spouse hath Ulmo, nor Melkor. No lord hath Nienna the
sorrowful, queen of shadow, Manwe's sister and Melkor's. The
wife of Lorien is Este the pale, but she goes not to the councils of
the Valar and is not accounted among the rulers of Arda, but is
the chief of the Maiar.
$4 With these great powers came many other spirits of like
kind but less might and authority; these are the Maiar, the
Beautiful,(4) the folk of the Valar. And with them are numbered
also the Valarindi, the offspring of the Valar, their children
begotten in Arda, yet of the race of the Ainur who were before
the World; they are many and fair.

At this point my father wrote in: This is drawn from the work of
Quennar Onotimo. These words refer not to what precedes but to the
following passage, headed Of the Beginning of Time and its Reckon-
ing (although in the preamble - struck through - of the rejected first
page of AAm Quennar i Onotimo is said to have been the author of
the Annals as a whole, p. 48).
The entire section on the subject of the Reckoning of Time was later
marked in pencil: 'Transfer to the Tale of Years'. The Tale of Years, a
chronological list of the same sort as that in Appendix B to The Lord
of the Rings, exists in different forms, associated with the earlier and
later Annals; the later form, closely associated with AAm and its
companion the Grey Annals (Annals of Beleriand), is perhaps the most
complex and difficult text of all that my father left behind him. This
need not concern us here; but associated with it are two very fine
manuscripts (one of them, the later of the two, among the most
beautiful that he made: see the frontispiece) giving in almost identical
form the same text Of the Beginning of Time and its Reckoning as is
found here in AAm, but placing it as the opening of The Tale of Years
and the prelude to the chronological list of events. These two
manuscripts are of course later than the text in AAm, and some
readings in which they differ from it are given in the notes. AAm
continues:



This is drawn from the work of Quennar Onotimo.(5)
Of the Beginning of Time and its Reckoning.