Eru Iluvatar: Influences Of Religion

Eru Iluvatar is the God of Middle-Earth; he creates the Ainur so he doesn’t feel so isolated. The Ainur are like Christianities’ angels. The Ainur are split into two groups; the Valar, are the guardians of the world. And the Maiar, wizard or the Istari. The Istari are low-angels; including Gandalf, Sauroman, Radagast, and the two blue wizards. The Istari’s main mission is to protect the people of the world from evil. Melkor is the reason for such evil in the world. When Eru Iluvatar and his angels sang to create the world Melkor wanted a song of his own. Much similar to Satan in Christianity. Melkor’s chorus created the evil; he even gained some Istari followers. Balrog’s are basically giant lava monsters, who are low-angels. Istari’ Sauron was basically Melkor’s lieutenant. …show more content…
Each book has different influences of Christianity. Rothfuss mimicked God creating a man in his image. Although, Rothfuss had his God to clean out the world himself, making himself man to rid the world of evil. Neither Tolkien nor Martin did this. Martin gave the Seven, seven characteristic like God in Christianity who has three characteristic. In Martin’s first book the two religions are known of but he doesn’t go into detail as much as the other books in the series. For now we just know of the Seven and Old Gods. The Great Stallion, the religion of the Dothraki doesn’t have a lot of information in the books. We know that baby Rhaego would have been the stallion who mounts the world. The Hobbit has more religion when you read other Tolkien books. The religion of The Hobbit isn’t in the book itself but in The Silmarillion. Tolkien and Martin both have larger scopes on religion, as far as explaining not in one book but several. Although, Rothfuss gives readers a hint of the religion but in The Name of the Wind it is more of a myth. The religions in all three books take different aspects from Christianity, creating very different