{"id":79864,"date":"2021-02-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=79864"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:35:49","slug":"manwe-varda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/13\/manwe-varda\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Valar: Manw\u00eb and Varda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an effort to establish more clearly in my mind the different Valar, I thought I would put together some memorable graphics and a short description for each of the main ones. Today&#8217;s post is about Manw\u00eb and Varda&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manw\u00eb<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Type:<\/strong> Vala<\/li><li><strong>Name meaning: <\/strong>&#8220;The good&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Other titles:<\/strong> &#8220;King of Arda&#8221;, &#8220;Lord of the Air&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> His eyes and clothing are blue and his sceptre is made of sapphire.<\/li><li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Lives in the mansions of <strong>Ilmarin<\/strong> atop the mountain of <strong>Taniquetil<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Loves:<\/strong> All birds, particularly eagles, are sacred to him. He has a soft spot for the Vanyar Elves because of their skill in poetry.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/KYV-Manwe\u0308.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Varda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-d0acfb78-1541-44c6-a9ce-1ab6b6b8e838\"><li><strong>Type:<\/strong> Vala<\/li><li><strong>Name meaning: <\/strong>&#8220;Sublime&#8221;\/&#8221;Lofty&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Other titles:<\/strong> &#8220;Queen of the Heavens&#8221;, &#8220;Queen of Light&#8221;, &#8220;Gilthoniel&#8221;, &#8220;Elbereth&#8221;, &#8220;Lady of the stars&#8221;<\/li><li><strong>Appearance:<\/strong> Extremely beautiful<\/li><li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Lives in the mansions of <strong>Ilmarin<\/strong> atop the mountain of <strong>Taniquetil<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Loves:<\/strong> Light. She rekindled the stars, lit the Lamps of the Valar, and placed the Sun and Moon in the heavens.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-90x90.png 90w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Varda.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to establish more clearly in my mind the different Valar, I thought I would put together some memorable graphics and a short description for each of the main ones. Today&#8217;s post is about Manw\u00eb and Varda&#8230; Manw\u00eb Type: Vala Name meaning: &#8220;The good&#8221; Other titles: &#8220;King of Arda&#8221;, &#8220;Lord of the Air&#8221; Appearance: His eyes and clothing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5805,5804,5812,5813],"class_list":["post-79864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-manwe","tag-the-silmarillion","tag-valar","tag-varda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80070,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79864\/revisions\/80070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}