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Old 02-20-2013, 11:41 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Eönwë View Post
...Then we get to the issue of the Istari. I never thought of them as sexual, but now, after thinking about how they had to actually live in the bodies of Men, I would assume that they were also fully functional in that department. And then one wonders whether they ever did uncloak in the days of their physical youth. Or at least had the desire to, now that they were human and bound to the physical. Or would that be diverting from their mission?...
We can be fairly confident that the Istari never did 'uncloak' in their youth because we are told that at incarnation they assumed the form of OLD men:

"They came therefore in the shape of Men, though they were never young and aged only slowly..." Appendix B, The Third Age.

It seems reasonable to assume that they did this as a way of avoiding the hormones and distractions of youth.
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