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But the Ainur didn’t aid Iluvatar in every creative venture.

The Two Trees of Valinor in ‘The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.'

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Placing the Valar leader Manwe as his governing emissary, Iluvatar allowed his creation to grow.

But Iluvatar doesn’t stop there.

When he first created the world, it was flat as a map, literally.

A ship heads to Valinor in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.'

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But there was one other moment in Middle-earth history that was just as important to Eru Iluvatar.

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A vision of Númenor succumbing to a gigantic wave in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.'

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Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil in his blue robes looking down in The Rings of Power

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Epic drama set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’ follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth.

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