Ulmo Ulmo Ulmo (from the Valarin Ulubôz, Ullubôz via Ulumō) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He first appears in "The Silmarillion" as a god or Vala of the Elven pantheon. Ulmo is a title, which means "He who pours". He is also known as "King of the Sea" and "Lord of Waters". Ulmo is similar to the god Poseidon in Greek mythology, Neptune in Roman mythology, Ægir in Norse mythology, and Manannan in Celtic mythology. Ulmo was one of the chief architects of Arda (the world). Ulmo was second in majesty of the Valar, after
Ceres (mythology) Terra, Venus (and thus Victoria) and with Libera as a female aspect of Liber. No native Roman myths of Ceres are known. According to "interpretatio romana", by which Roman deities were identified with their Greek counterparts, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Dis. Ceres' known mythology is indistinguishable from Demeter's: "When Ceres sought through all the earth with lit torches for