Thorondor as a Maia???

Hello everybody,

This is my first post. Hello!!!

My view over the particular question is that Thorondor, Huan, Thuringwethil, Carcharoth, Ancalagon, Glaurung and every highest rank creature is indeed a Maia. I think that Maiar are prototypical of specific ideas of Eru's Thought, and Valar prototypical of general realms (i. e. light, wind, water, earth, olvar, fate, compassion, kelvar, cold -Melkor Morgoth-, and the like). They are the demiurgs of their own sphere of influence.

I refer to the Curse of Mandos when he tells the Noldo that Melkor Morgoth is indeed a Vala, and even if Eru Iluvatar had made Feanor three times greater than what he already was, he could not stand before Melkor Morgoth.

I think that, generally speaking, no one is able to kill an ainu except another ainu. If it happens, I think Namo Mandos is at work. For instance, Bilbo finding the One Ring, Echtelion killing Gothmog being killed himself in it and similar cases...

On the other side, Great Eagles, Ents, and similar people, have indeed fea, and It may well be that Melian and Thingol is not the only -but the best known- of the unions between Children and Ainur.

Any suggestions???

Manwe Sulimo