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Usage examples of arda.

And they observed the winds and the air, and the matters of which Arda was made, of iron and stone and silver and gold and many substances: but of all these water they most greatly praised.

Elves and Men, until in the time appointed was made Arda, the Kingdom of Earth.

The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.

He was appointed to be, in the fullness of time, the first of all Kings: lord of the realm of Arda and ruler of all that dwell therein.

In Arda his delight is in the winds and the clouds, and in all the regions of the air, from the heights to the depths, from the utmost borders of the Veil of Arda to the breezes that blow in the grass.

For he kept all Arda in thought, and he has no need of any resting-place.

She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda has suffered in the marring of Melkor.

He came last to Arda, to aid the Valar in the first battles with Melkor.

And darkness he used most in his evil works upon Arda, and filled it with fear for all living things.

Valar, and through long years in Arda held dominion over most of the lands of the Earth.

In all the deeds of Melkor the Morgoth upon Arda, in his vast works and in the deceits of his cunning, Sauron had a part, and was only less evil than his master in that for long he served another and not himself.

The shadow of my purpose lies upon Arda, and all that is in it bends slowly and surely to my will.

You are not the Lord of Men, and shall not be, though all Arda and Menel fall in your dominion.

In the beginning of Arda Melkor seduced him to his allegiance, and he became the greatest and most trusted of the servants of the Enemy, and the most perilous, for he could assume many forms, and for long if he willed he could still appear noble and beautiful, so as to deceive all but the most wary.

For surely, if I remain unhoused, and forgo life in Arda, then his Doom will be inviolate.