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even after the Change of the World and the hiding of Aman;
but ten years of the Sun they account now as but one year,(15) and
one thousand but as a century. This is drawn from the
Yenonotie of Quennar: quoth Pengolod.(16)
$10 It is computed by the lore-masters that the Valar came
to the realm of Arda, which is the Earth, five thousand Valian
Years ere the first rising of the Moon, which is as much as to say
forty-seven thousands and nine hundred and one of our years.
Of these, three thousand and five hundred (or thirty-three
thousand five hundred and thirty of our reckoning) passed ere
the measurement of time first known to the Eldar began with
the flowering of the Trees. Those were the Days before days.
Thereafter one thousand and four hundred and five and ninety
Valian Years (or fourteen thousand of our years and three
hundred and twenty-two) followed during which the Light of
the Trees shone in Valinor. Those were the Days of Bliss. In
those days, in the Year one thousand and fifty of the Valar, the
Elves awoke in Kuivienen and the First Age of the Children of
Iluvatar began.(17)

1. The First Year of the Valar in Arda.

$11 After ages of labour beyond knowledge or reckoning in
the great halls of Ea the Valar descended into Arda in the
beginning of its being, and they began there their labour
fore-ordained for the shaping of its lands and its waters, even
from the foundations to the highest towers of the Air.
$12 But their labours were frustrated and turned aside from
their design, for Melkor coveted the dominion of Arda, and he
claimed the kingship and was at strife with Manwe. And
Melkor wrought great ruin with fire and deadly cold and
marred all that the other Valar made.

1500

$13 It came to pass that hearing afar of the war in Arda
Tulkas the Strong came thither out of distant regions of Ea to
the aid of Manwe. Then Arda was filled with the sound of his
laughter, but he turned a face of' anger towards Melkor; and
Melkor fled before his wrath and his mirth, and forsook Arda,
and there was a long peace.
$14 Now the Valar began their labours anew; and when the
lands and the waters were ordered the Valar had need of light,
that the seeds of Yavanna's devising might grow and have life.
Aule therefore wrought two great lamps, as it were of silver and
of gold and yet translucent, and Varda filled them with hal-
lowed fire, to give light to the Earth. Illuin and Ormal they were
named. 1900 And they were set upon mighty pillars as
mountains in the midst of Arda, to the northward and the
southward.