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Eru Iluvatar, in form as the Ainatar, guides the Ainulindalë

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Eru the Ilon

Eru Iluvatar: (Q. "The One" or "He that is Alone"), is the creator, father, and arch-deity of and all things within and without. He is powerful beyond even the comprehension of the Valar, an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent entity, self-existent and without ancestry. His thoughts brought forth all things that came to be naturally, from the Ainur to Ea itself. His will governs the course of history, and only He knows the secrets of Arda’s destiny. He is the sole true God of All Things, with all other powers ultimately in subservience to Him.

Eruist Faith[]

Eruist Faith (Q."Eruaistale") was the religion of Eru Illuvatar as it was taught to Elves by the Valar and to men by the Elves. Eruist religions venerated Eru according to his rightful dignity as Lord and creator of all things, with the Valar acknowledged as Angelic powers and removed guardians of the World. This indeed was the truth and reality of the world, and differed from most of the lesser religions of Men, which enshrined the Valar themselves, or lesser and even sometimes nonexistent deities, as the creators of all things.

The Elvish Eruist Religion was in its most ancient form a very simple, tribal religion. Stories and histories were passed down orally, and in these days there was no official clergy or priesthood.Sometimes the High-King appeared as an acting High-Priest of Eru on the seasonal rites. The Lesser Elves, did not adhere to any advanced and organized methods of worship, for they had not learned them of the Valar; while the Sindar, and to a lesser extent the Nandor, had incorpotated the Valar into their cosmology, the Avari chiefly maintained the traditional practices of the Elves, holding no priesthood, and their faith was of a personal and unpretentious sort, emphasizing personal faith and meditation over organized social ceremony and prayer.Instead of organized Priesthoods some of the Eldar, and the Dúnedain after them, founded convents of pious dedicants known for males as "Anustari" (Q."Monks" or lit."Fellows"; S."Gomodronath") or females as "Qindestini" (Q."Nuns" or lit."Companions"; S."Gomodrilath"), who sometimes even lived in specialized communities like monasteries (Q."Anustar"), the later descendants of the Dúnedain also held fanes (S."Iaunath"), temples (Q. "Cordar") or shrines (Q."Alkarini"; S."Alchorath"), in which they revered Eru or rather the Flame Imperishable in form of the "Sā" or temple-fire.

The Númenórians alone of all Men adhered to the High-Elvish traditions, though partially mixed with their indigenous beliefs as the Edain. They believed in the truth of Eru and prayed to Him as Lord, but they knew only one central sanctuary on Meneltarma, and their High-King alone of all of their people acted as functional priest; High-Priest, to be exact. Their Elendili descendants continued these traditions, and introduced them to the Middle-Men of the Westlands, who incorporated them into their own legend, though with little adherence to tradition. High sanctuaries (Q."Airitar") of Gondor were founded, in such forms as the White Tree and the Hallows of Fen Hollen in Minas Tirith, the Ehtelë Ulmova and the High Hallow of Mount Mindolluin, and others of Arnor lay along the Lake Nenuial, Formenaire upon Fornost, in the Barrow Downs and in the Tower Hills.

Eru was sanctified and praised as Lord, and given thanks, by His worshipers, especially at seasonal ceremonies, but He was seldom called upon or prayed to directly; due partially to His untouchable and incomprehensibly superior divinity, and partially to the corruption of Melkor, the world was thought to be below His domain, and it was said that He did not interfere with its affairs save at great need. Rather, prayers to Him were addressed through the Valar, who were considered His viceroys in Ëa. However, many Eldar and High-Men had faith in the Vision of Finrod amongst the former and the Old Hope amongst the latter, that Eru Himself would one day incarnate in Eruhin shape (as "Elpino", or "Yésus") in the very world of Arda, and in this form He would re-sanctify the world and cleanse it of Melkor's influence; and men believed that in this form, He would redeem their people of their many sins.

Besides of His ancient nature and being as "Adar" or "Ainatar", the eternal Maker of , or "Ilon," and His physical incarnation in Eruhin form as "Crisan", "Ion", "Elpino" and "Runando", (that is "the Christ or "the Incarnate", "the Son", "the Anointed" or "the Redeemer"), the Eruists also believed in a third form or nature of Eru: "Airefeä" (Q. "Holy Spirit"), in which form Eru was omnipotent and omnipresent throughout the entirety of His creation, invisible and yet flowing through the world as a sort of guided force. In this form, He saw all things, knew all things, and could speak to the Valar or to His Children, and even at times work miracles. Some of these miracles were His acceptance of the many oaths made by his Children over the long ages, His alteration of the form of Ambar resulting in the Akallabêth, or his indirect destruction of the Ruling Ring.

The Airefeä was also identified with the "Sā" or ritual temple-fire of Elves and men, and with the flame imperishable or the secret fire. All three natures of Eru were collectively known as the "Neldië," or "Trinity."

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Other Names[]

  • Adar (S."Father")
  • Ainatar (Q."Holy Father")
  • Airefëa (Q. Holy Spirit)
  • Aireion (Q. "Holy Son")
  • Alávo or Alûva (Haradrim)
  • Asrûta (Mornârim)
  • Atar (Q. "Father"; High-Elves)
  • Crisan (Q. "Christ," Eru incarnate)
  • Dianti (Dorwinrim)
  • Ealdfaeder (Rohirrim)
  • Elpino (Q."The Anointed"; equivalent in meaning to Elpino)
  • The Father
  • the First Being (Southernesse)
  • Flame Imperishable (as the Holy Spirit)
  • God (Men of the Sixth through the Seventh Age)
  • Hakîma (Easterlings, Haradrim)
  • Hrísto (Q. "the Anointed")
  • Hûr-Iriga (Easterlings)
  • Ilon (S."Sky")
  • Ion (Q."Scion", as an Incarnate)
  • Iroi (Marshmen)
  • Mardorunando (As the Redeemer)
  • Muinare (Tareldar)
  • Naur Thurin (S. "Secret Fire"; Sindar)
  • Neldië (Q. as the Trinity)
  • Odanal (Umli)
  • The One
  • Omohére (Q."Allmighty")
  • The One-Person (Southernesse)
  • Ôs (Lossoth)
  • Runando (Q. "Redeemer")
  • Sā (As the Holy Ghost; also identified with the temple-fire)
  • Sanavaldo (Q."Allmighty")
  • The Secret Fire
  • Tera-vel (Adena)
  • Wyrd (Rohirrim)
  • Yê or Yesuchi (Haradrim)
  • Yésus (Q. "Anointed One," phonetic transmission of Greek "Jesus" or Hebrew "Jehoshua," meaning His form as "Crisan")
  • Ympyra (Ystavat Talven)

See:[]

  • Eruamillë or Eruontarië

References:[]

  • MERP:Campaign and Adventure Guidebook
  • MERP:Middle-Earth Adventure Guidebook II
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