I voted Ulmo. He has always been my favourite Vala.
I think I rambled enough about my love for the sea on the With which race do you most identify? -thread, so I probably need not repeat it here... Suffice to say water has always been a very close element to me. I very often dream of water - especially of the sea - and my most usual way of dying in my dreams is by drowning. Oddly, it doesn't even feel as horrible as it's probably supposed to... eek.
There is something very touching in Ulmo himself. Being always alone (not having a spouse like most other Valar) and living isolated from the other Valar makes him an oddly sad character to me. I think he must be solitary by nature, but there's still something sad in him. Besides, how could one not like him since he was the only Vala who really didn't abandon the Children of Ilúvatar?
PS.
LMP, these threads of yours might prove very dangerous to me.
Thanks to this and the race-thread I have been thinking about the sea a lot lately so I decided to go to have a stroll on the beach before going home today. I indeed went there and sat on a jetty, just watching the grey sea and listening to it (and to cars and noisy children, but lest's not get into that). I was very close to taking my coat, boots, gloves and hat off and diving to the ice-cold sea, but thankfully two things prevented me from doing it: my almost non-existent common sense (swimming in cold water with your clothes on can really be dangerous and walking the few minute walk home in drenched clothes in this weather would have been both very uncomfortable and a very stupid reason to get a cold) and a nosy woman in a swimming suit who came to complain to me. I would have loved to see her expression if I had dived to the sea after her, though.
