↳ manwë was the leader of the ainur, one of the aratar, king of the valar, husband of varda, brother of the dark lord melkor, and king of arda. he was also known as súlimo, mânawenûz or valahiru and lives atop mount taniquetil in valinor, the highest mountain of the world.
Among those of his servants that have names the greatest was that spirit whom the Eldar called Sauron, or Gorthaur the Cruel. In his beginning he was of the Maiar of Aulë, and he remained mighty in the lore of that people. 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. But in after years he rose like a shadow of Morgoth and a ghost of his malice, and walked behind him on the same ruinous path down into the Void.
