January 11, 2004

Sauron Reply
gaffer

Sauron was a Maiar, the servants and helpers of the Valar. According to the Silmarillion, like the Valar they existed before the world, and were of the same order of the Valar, but of less degree (power?). The Silmarillion suggests that the Balrogs might also have been Maiar.

Could the wizards have been Maiar too?