Talk:Maia (Middle-earth)

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[edit] Associated Vala of Blue Wizards and Balrogs

Is there any information to indicate whom the Blue Wizards were associated with? And for Balrogs: I had always thought Balrogs were associated with Melkor. The article, however, indicates that they existed prior and were eventually corrupted by Melkor (as was the case for Sauron). Considering information that links Gothmog as a possible child of Melkor, I'd think that would be a good indication that these Maia were directly associated to Melkor rather than corrupted. Any thoughts? --Thisisbossi 06:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Found a reference that the Blue Wizards were of Oromë (though the reference is the Blue Wizards article itself). --Thisisbossi 06:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

The blue wizards are reffered to as belonging to Orome in the Book of Lost Tales. In this work their names are given as Pallando and Alatar (one of whom was brought "as a friend"). The flip side is we know almost nothing about the blue wizards and even their names remained in flux for the duration of Tolkien's life. At one point he played with the notion that the 5th blue wizard was actually Glofindel to explain his reappearance on middle-earth--Darkling235 22:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)