Editing Ainur (section)

==Eru Ilúvatar==
While not an Ainur himself, and is barely involved in the legendarium beyond the Music of the Ainur and a handful of other events, it's worth mentioning him here. Eru Iluvatar lives not in Middle Earth or Valinor, but "Beyond the Circles of the World" in the Timeless Halls, with the rest of the Ainur who didn't enter Arda. As previously stated, he's the singular all-powerful being from which all other sentient beings originate, whether they be Ainur, Elf, or Man (and Dwarves on a technicality), as he alone possesses the Secret Fire, the source of free will and independent being. Its perhaps because of this that he takes a very hands-off approach with his creation, though not 100% of the time; while people can point to obvious interventions like allowing Beren and Luthien to return to the world of the living, or sinking Numenor, Ilúvatar also works in very subtle ways; multiple times in the Lord of the Rings, many coincidences, premonitions,  lucky breaks, and chance encounters happen throughout. While one might be able to attribute them to the Valar individually or as a whole, none of them have as much foresight as he does, and a loooooot of shit had to go right just for the ring to end up with the Baggins family, for the Fellowship to form, for the ring to make it to Mordor, and for the ring to actually be destroyed in such a way that Sauron couldn't anticipate.