That Extra Race

[Losthuniel]

There is one more race in Arda (barley mentonied, but yes, it is there): Slyphs. No, wait, don't go! I have a quote to back it up:

More silken-soft,more strange and fair
than sylphine maidens of the Air
Whose wings in Varda's heavenly hall
in rhythmic movement beat and fall

-Lays of Beleriand, Lay of Leithian, Canto XIII, lines 4076-4079

Could be considered irrelevant, except for a passage in the Silm:

many of those lesser Vali who loved them and played nigh them and attuned their music to theirs, and these are the Mánir and the Sùruli, the slyphs of the air and the winds

- the Silmarillion, The coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor

Those who have read The Lay will realize I am stating the obvious, so don't shoot me, please.

[ August 28, 2002: Message edited by: Losthuniel ]