Tulkas.
Poldórëa.
Astaldo. (the brave )
Most youthful is he and strong of limb and lusty, and for that is he named Poldórëa.who love games and twanging of bows and boxing, wrestling, running and leaping, and songs that go with a swing and a toss of a well-filled cup. Tulkas the strongest of limbs and the greatest in deeds of prowess he is brave and a mighty warrior and walks unclothed to battle and sport of which wrestling is his best. He have no weapon but his hands and that is all he needs. He have no steed becourse he runs faster than any living creature, and he don`t know the word tired and there is none more faithfull than him. Tulkas recks little of either past or future and is of small avail as councellor but he is a hardy friend and he have a great love for Eonwë. He is in Elventonque called Astaldo Tulkas was the last Ainur who stepped into Arda save Amillo and he came to aid the Valar in their fight against Melkor. Tulkas hair and beard is blond and golden, his face is ruddy. His vife is Nessa. Tulkas aided Aulë in the building of Valinor and The Halls of Manwë upon Taniquetil. The House of Tulkas was in the midmost of Valmar.
Valian Years ( V.Y.) 0 - 3450.
V.Y 0 - 1500. Uncounted years filled with labouring had gone by in the timeless ages before the Gods decented into the world in year 0. But Melkor contested the overlordship of Manwë and strife were in the world. Manwë summoned help and among those who heard was Tulkas and he came to the aid. Before his face Melkor fleed out into Eä.
1500 - 1900. Now the gods planned and schemed and ordered and for all the seeds Yavanna had planted Aulë made two great lamps Ormal and Illuin to lit the earth and these were set in 1900 upon Helkar and Ringil.
V.Y. 1900 - 3450. Now began the Spring of Arda, the Gods settlet at Almaren and the world came to life, threes and beasts swollened the earth and the strength of Tulkas were a great help in the devising and unfolding of the world. In these days Manwë ordained a feast and a resting from the labours and it is sung that in the Feast of the Spring of Arda Tulkas espoused Nessa.
But Melkor saw it from the outside of the Wall of Things and grew hot from what he heard it from his spies ( Sauron the chiefest of them ) and already among the Gods. And while the Gods were afterwards resting from the feast Melkor crept over the Wall and entered Arda in the North and assailed the Lamps and overtrew them and the blossom of the earth was checked.
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V.Y.3450 - V.Y.3500. The Gods departed to Aman where Aulë deemed the plains of Valinor a good place to build their new home. A great labour now began for the Gods. Melkor ruled Middle-earth with violence and was not asleep but watched and laboured and the evil things that he had perverted walked abroad and the dark forest were haunted by monsters and shapes of dread save the times where Oromë hunted there.
In the V.Y. 3500 came the two trees Silpion and Laurelin into being and in the delicious light upon Valinor Aulë began many new tasks.
Now began the Valian Years of the Trees. ( V.Y.t ) and a new reckoning of time.
V.Y.t 0 The two trees Silpion and Laurelin came into being.
V.Y.t 0 - 1000 This was the Noontide of Valinor though Middle-earth was still in darkness and only Oromë and Yavanna came there at times and the stewardship of Middle-earth was partly neglected. Melkor ruled there with violence save the times where Oromë hunted there.
V.Y.t 1000 - 1050 At the prayer of Yavanna Varda began the second setting of stars for the awakening of the Elves.
V.Y.t.1090 - 1092. At the prayer of Yavanna and for the sake of the Elves, Manwë took council in his heart and with Iluvathar and summoned the gods and declared to them his thoughts and the gods decided to capture Melkor.
V.Y.t.1092 - 1100. The gods went to war and made Melkor captive, uprooted Utumno and Tulkas wrestled with Melkor in year 1099 and casted him on his face, he was bound in Angainor and brought to Valinor year 1100 where he was doomed before the feet of Manwë to serve 3 Valian ages in the fastness of Mandos. But the chief leutenant of Melkor; Sauron was not captured and lay hid while he continued the evil begon by his master.
V.Y.t 1400 Melkor sued for pardon and against the wish of Tulkas, Oromë and Aulë, Melkor was released but should stay in Valinor.
V.Y.t 1400 - 1496. The Shadow began to grow in Valinor because of Melkor`s lies and in 1490 the truth was discovered at a council, Tulkas and Oromë pursuited Melkor but he escaped and hided in Arvelin in 1492 gathering strength and plotting evil. In 1495 Manwë sought to heal the evil that had arisen in Valinor and he declared a great feast but during the feast Melkor returned with Ungoliant, killed Finwë and destroyed the two Trees and left for Middle-earth. In the year
V.Y.t 1496 The departure from Valinor, Fëanor departed with a great host against the advice of the Gods and the Doom of Mandos was declared to them.
V.Y.t 1496 - 1500. These years between the killing of the Trees and the rise of the Sun and Moon were the Years of Darkness or the Years of the Darkening of Valinor. Long it has been said the Valar sat in silent thoughts, holding counsel with each other by the pover of minds in the Ring of Doom. Yavanna and Nienna put forth all their povers of healing and by the uttermost of their strength and pover Telperion and Laurelin bore each one a single fruit which became the Sun and Moon.
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First Age.
The First age are counted from the rising of the Sun, this happened at the very same time as Fingolfin and his host arrived in Mithrim after the crossing of the Grinding ice.
In the early evolution of the tales, after birds had told the Elves of Kôr of the Fall of Gondolin and the fate of the Noldor and Melkor had made raids upon the Havens of Sirion, the Gods took counsel and there were an uproar among the Elves, Salmar and Tulkas sets out with an first host of Elves ( It seems in the light of the further plot that Tulkas might have been in an second and later host ) and camps at Nan-Tathren, the land of Willows, but there the host are overwhelmed. Salmar escapes / survive the defeat and goes wandering into the Ered Engrin in search of the imprisoned Noldor and Elves ( No mentioning of Tulkas, did he arrive to the great lands later or did he escape the defeat too ) Salmar finds the place of imprisonment and Tulkas ( Did he gather the scathered Elves and / or bring a second host or was he alone ) follows him. Now Melkor comes and a battle is fought at the Silent Pools / Aelin-uial where Melkor is overthrown ( the first glimpse of the later War of Wrath ) and the Elves are released. Salmar and Tulkas departure and returns to Valinor, hostility of Men from Dor-Lomin and war between Elves and Men breaks out, Elves are lead back to dwell in Valinor but the gods will not let them in ( Was there an dissagrement at the gods council whether to aid the imprisoned Elves ? ) or does the ban only apply towards the Noldor because of the Kinslaying at Alqualonde ? or because of the war with Men ? ) for whatever reason they instead settled at Tol Eressëa and Salmar, his brother Amillo and their sister Erinti left Aman to live at Tol Eressëa after that battle which later became the War of Wrath. Where Tulkas decided to live; at Tol Eressea or remained in Aman is not told.
Related links.: Misc.: Reckoning of Time. Encyc.: Of Tulkas.