[gurps] gandalf movie version

[Anthony Jackson]

midnightwind at comcast.net wrote:
> Balrogs were great spirits (presumably from Udun-- or Hell) summoned
> by Morgoth (Sauron's teacher) to fight the War of the Jewels (see The
> Silmarillion).
The implication was always that they were Maiar who had followed Morgoth 
in the song.
> 
> Gandalf was actually presumably Valar-- he was sent as a "messenger
> of the Valar" but was forbidden to use his godlike powers (implied
> that he assumed a more mortal form when passing to Middle Earth, and
> therefore possessed only a fraction of what was available to him).

The Valar are the leaders of the Maiar, and very small in number (I 
don't recall the count, something like 5-7). No evidence Gandalf was one 
of them, and it's pretty unlikely.