No, no and again no. They were not the Gods of Arda, they were the guardians of it. I do not know if you are a Roman catholic, but I am personally not religious, but there is only one God, one, the single creator. He is raised above the others and put his angels to guard men. They may have been viewed by men as Gods, but they were not that. Neither did men worship them or did they seek to be worshipped, two of what we would call criterias of being a God. I completely fail to understand your reasoning when you say they are Gods, it is simply not possible in Roman Catholicism that htere should exist a sub-God. I could accept that they are of a 'higher angelic order' and thus, some kind of archangels, whilst the others may be claled angels... But no, I reject that anything could be called God except Eru the creator.
Måns, sorry for the awful mess and tone.
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