The immediate predecessors of the Ainu, who are the native people of northeastern ... by 1500 B.C., elaborate cemeteries marked by stone circles or high earth embankments. To a large degree ...

But who are these "gods," as the Men of Middle-earth might call them ... Tolkien also includes a rebellious Ainu, the being known as Melkor and later Morgoth. A distinctly Satan-like figure ...

outside the usual order of Middle-earth. The most common theory is that Tom could be an Ainu, like a Valar. He seems to have unlimited power within the boundaries he sets for himself, and his ...

Sugita derided them as “middle-aged women” who were “completely devoid of dignity” when they appeared at the session in “cosplay of Chimageogori and Ainu ethnic costumes.” Tahara ...