to Gwaihir:
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. He began with the desire of Light, but when he could not possess it for himself alone, he descended through fire and wrath into a great burning, down into Darkness
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description of Melkor/Morgoth
+ If I remember correctly, Melkor lost his Vala abilities of changing shape only after the change of name
concerning marriage:
In case Tom is a maia (if), Goldberry may also be one. Some of the folk of Ulmo and Osse.
Tom as a maia:
But the main strees of my argument falls on Gandalf:
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I am going to have a long talk with Bombadil: such a talk as I have not had in all my time. He is a moss-gatherer, and I have been a stone doomed to rolling.
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First of all, why Gandalf haven't had conversation with Tom? Because he moved to hither lands as Melian did, but stayed there for all agais of ME. And Gandalf compares himslef to Tom as he would compare equals (i.e. things of the same rank and order). If tom was anything else, why underying their outlooks. For it would have been no metter of concern. Sample:
Bob and Jim are musicians. Bob plays banjo, and Jim is a drummer.
I can compare both on the ground they are both musicians
Bob is a driver, and jim is a drummer
no point in comparing those.
Though all of the above are speculations, as all concerning Tom is [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]