[...] Manwe has not thought for his own honour, and is not jealous of his power, but rules all to peace. The Vanyar he loved best of all the Elves, and of him they recieved song and poetry; for poetry is the delight of Manwe, and the song of words is his music. His rainment is blue, and blue ist the fire of his eyes, and his sceptre is of sapphire, which the Noldor wrought for him; and he was appointed to be the vicegerent of Illúvatar, Kind of the world of Valar and Elves and Men, and the chief defence angainst the evil of Melkor. With Manwe dwelt Varda the most beautiful, she who in the Sindarin tongue is namend Elbereth, Queen of the Valar, maker of the stars; and with them were a great host of spirits in belessedness.
But Ulmo was alone, and he abode not in Valinor, nor ever came thither unless there were need for a great council; he dwelt from the beginning of Arda in the Outer Ocean, and still he dwells there. Thence he governs the flowing of all waters, and the ebbing, the courses of all rivers and the preplenishement of springs, the distilling of all dews and rain in every land beneath the sky. In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth. The Teleri learned much of Ulmo, and for this reason their music has both sandness and enchantment. [...]
- Aus: "Of the Beginnig of Days", The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
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