Maiar

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| image=[[File:Kimberly - Osse and Uinen.jpg|250px]]
| name=Maiar
| dominions= [[Aman]], [[Middle-earth]]
| languages= [[Valarin]], [[Quenya]], [[Sindarin]], [[Black Speech]], [[Westron]]
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| distinctions=[[Immortality]]
| lifespan=Immortal
| members= [[Eönwë]], [[Ilmarë]], [[Ossë]], [[Uinen]], [[Sauron]], [[Istari]], [[Balrogs]], [[Melian]]
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The '''Maiar''' (singular '''Maia'''; [[Quenya]], pronounced {{IPA|[ˈmaɪ.ar]}}) were those spirits which descended to [[Arda]] to help the [[Valar]] shape the World. They were numerous, yet not many were named, and few also took visible shapes in Middle-Earth. The Maiar were [[Ainur]] — technically, any Ainu that is not counted as a Vala is a Maia.

==History==
Their chiefs were [[Eönwë]], banner-bearer and herald of [[Manwë]], and [[Ilmarë]], the handmaid of [[Varda]].

Each of the Maiar was associated with one or more particular Vala, and were of similar stock, though less powerful. For example, [[Ossë]] and [[Uinen]], as spirits of the sea, belonged to [[Ulmo]], while [[Curumo]], who came to be known in [[Middle-earth]] as [[Saruman]], belonged to [[Aulë]] the Smith.

Others included [[Mairon]], also originally of Aulë's people, who later became known as [[Saruman]], [[Aiwendil]], who was known in Middle-earth as [[Radagast]] the Brown and belonged to the people of [[Yavanna]], and [[Olórin]], known as [[Gandalf]], who belonged to [[Manwë]] and [[Varda]], but his ways took him often to the house of [[Nienna]]. From her, he learned pity and patience, which perhaps aided him in his later struggles to unite the Free peoples of Middle-earth against the power of Sauron.

The [[Blue Wizards]] travelled to the east, and never returned to the west. Their fate is unknown. The [[Balrogs]], like Sauron, were Maiar corrupted by [[Morgoth|Melkor]]. Their associated Vala is not known. [[Melian]] served both [[Vána]] and [[Estë]].<ref>{{S|IIc}}</ref>

==Etymology==
The [[Quenya]] name ''Maiar'' means "the Beautiful".<ref>{{HM|MR}}, p. 49</ref>

==Individuals==
*[[Arien]]
*[[Radagast|Aiwendil]] (Radagast)
*[[Blue Wizards|Alatar]] (one of the Blue Wizards)
*[[Saruman|Curumo]] (Saruman)
*[[Eönwë]]
*[[Durin's Bane]]
*[[Gothmog (balrog)|Gothmog]]
*[[Ilmarë]]
*[[Sauron|Mairon]] (Sauron)
*[[Melian]]
*[[Gandalf|Olórin]] (Gandalf)
*[[Ossë]]
*[[Blue Wizards|Pallando]] (one of the Blue Wizards)
*[[Salmar]]
*[[Tilion]]
*[[Uinen]]

===Descendants of [[Melian]]===
*[[Lúthien]] (1/2 Maia)
*[[Dior]] (1/4 Maia)
*[[Elwing]] (1/8 Maia)
*[[Elrond]] (1/16 Maia)
*[[Elros]] (1/16 Maia)
*[[Arwen]] (1/32 Maia)
*[[Elladan]] (1/32 Maia)
*[[Elrohir]] (1/32 Maia)
*[[Eldarion]] (1/64 Maia)

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