Ainur

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From an Valarin-Quenya word meaning "saints" or "holy ones", likely from Quenya aina (“holy, revered, numinous”), ultimately derived from the Primitive Quendian root *AYA ("reverence", "holiness").

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Ainur

  1. (fantasy) the immortal, angelic spirits made of the thought of Eru Ilúvatar and existing before the Creation in J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional universe.

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