the coming of the message was followed by 'the councils ( counsels c ) of the gods and the uproar of the elves ' , but in c nothing is said of 'the sorrow and wrath of the gods ' or 'the veil dropped between valmar and kor ' referred to in b : where the meaning can surely only be that the march of the elves from valinor was undertaken in direct opposition to the will of the valar , that the valar were bitterly opposed to the interven- tion of the elves of valinor in the affairs of the great lands .