True, but Aphrodite/Venus has very violent beginnings. According to some legends, when Cronus threw his father, Uranus's hacked-off genitalia into the Ocean, Aphrodite rose out of the resulting foam. According to other stories, she is the daughter of Zeus and a Titaness named Dione.
I really don't think that Goldberry could be compared to Aphrodite. I could see her being compared to a Nereid or another sea nymph, though.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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