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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Valar/Maiar
A couple of things ...
Arien was not fire spirit or not connected in any way to Melkor - So DAMN YOU - I had to go and look it up! <img src=cool.gif ALT="8)"> <img src=cool.gif ALT="8)"> <img src=cool.gif ALT="8)"> - Originally she tended the golden flowers in gardens of the Valie Vana! So we can add a Ninth Vala to the list!
Manwe = Eonwe
Ulmo = Osse, Uinen, Salmar
Aule = Sauron, Saruman
Orome = Alatar, Pallamdo, Tilion (nice finding)
Lorien/Irmo = Olorin
Varda = Ilmare
Yavanna = Radagast and Melian
Vana / Arien
Melkor = Gothmog
Regarding Gothmog - well JRRT changed his opinion on the origin of Balrogs - In earlier Myth there were thousands - in Later Myth he cut the number of Balrogs down to only seven ... Still I think we can put Gothmog on the list <img src=smile.gif ALT="
"> - In very early Myth Gothmog was actually the son of Melkor - And Eönwe (though he then had another name that I have forgotten) was the son of Manwë <img src=smile.gif ALT="
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Im not sure we can count Bombadil and Goldberry among the Maiar - The subject is very unclear - at least to me!
Salmar was he who wrought the umlari (if thats the correct spelling) - the umlari was the horns of Ulmo
<img src=smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"> Telchar
Anar kaluva tielyanna!</p>