Ulmo

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| image=[[Image:Ulmo.jpg|250px]]
| name=Ulmo
| othernames=[[Ullubōz]], [[King of the Sea]], [[Lord of Waters]], [[Ulu]], [[Guiar]], [[Gulma]]
| coming=c. [[Years of the Lamps]] 1
| appointment=Lord of Waters
| creations=The [[Belegaer|sea]] and rivers
| maiar=[[Ossë]], [[Uinen]], and possibly [[Salmar]]
| dwelling=[[Ulmonan]]
| gender=Male
| spouse=
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| appearance=
| robes=Green armor
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'''Ulmo''' ([[Quenya]], pronounced {{IPA|[ˈulmo]}}; from the [[Valarin]] '''Ulubōz''', '''Ullubōz''') is a [[Valar|Vala]], and lord of the seas. Ulmo is a title, which means ''He who pours''. He is also known as ''King of the Sea'' and ''Lord of Waters''. He is known in the earlier writings by his [[Noldor|Noldorin]] name '''[[Ylmir]]''', among them [[Tuor]]'s ''[[The Horns of Ylmir]]''. The [[Sindarin]] form of Ulmo is '''Ulu''' ({{IPA|[ˈulu]}}), though he is also called '''Guiar''' ({{IPA|[ˈɡuɪ.ar]}}) and '''Gulma''' ({{IPA|[ˈɡulma]}}).

Ulmo was third in majesty of the Valar, after [[Manwë]] and [[Varda]]; he is in other words the third of the [[Aratar]]. He was very close in friendship to Manwë. Ulmo had always distrusted [[Melkor]], and the Dark Lord feared him almost as much as he feared Varda because the sea cannot be tamed. Ulmo had no dwelling in [[Valinor]], or any permanent dwelling on land. He prefered the deeps of the seas and the rivers to land. His palace, on the bottom of [[Vai]], was called [[Ulmonan]].

He seldom came to the Councils of [[Máhanaxar]], and only when in great need. He preferred to stay in Arda, not by walking on the land, as his form would fill man or elf with great dread. All waters were under his government; bays, rivers and even the waters under the earth. It is through these that he kept in touch with Arda, and thus knew more of the goings on with the children of Ilúvatar than even Manwe, for it was said he lived in the very veins of the world.

He was said to be fearful to look upon to mortal eye, dressed like a giant wave in glittering green armour, blowing his great horn [[Ulumuri]]. Ulmo's vassal [[Ossë]], and Ossë's spouse [[Uinen]] were, to the elves, the best known of the [[Maiar]]. Through them Ulmo would learn much of the elves.

Ulmo had always loved the [[Eldar]] and the [[Edain]], even when the Valar forsook Middle-earth. He opposed [[Oromë]]'s plan to bring the Elves to Aman, and anchored [[Tol Eressëa]] in the [[Bay of Eldamar]], which he did at because he knew the minds of the [[Teleri]]. Ulmo was the Vala most responsible for the fall of [[Morgoth]], by urging [[Turgon of Gondolin|Turgon]] to build [[Gondolin]] and [[Finrod Felagund|Finrod]] to build [[Nargothrond]]. He appeared before [[Tuor]] and urged him to to go to Gondolin as a messenger for Turgon, when he got there he eventually married Turgon's daughter [[Idril]] and fathered [[Eärendil the Mariner|Eärendil]]; and saved [[Elwing]] from the sack of the Havens of [[Sirion]], and thus she took the [[Silmarils|Silmaril]] to her husband Eärendil which allowed them to gain admittance to Valinor and plead for their mercy. Ulmo also defended them in the council from the potential wrath of [[Mandos]].

==Inspiration==
Because of Tolkien's Catholic faith, and the fact that he said the Valar were equivalent to saints and angels; then it is suggested that Ulmo is the equivalent of [[wikipedia:Erasmus of Formiae|St. Elmo]], patron saint of sailors and the sea.

== See Also ==
* [[:Category:Images of Ulmo|Images of Ulmo]]

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