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Originally Posted by Boromir88
With Maiar and the Elves, they just seem to possess magical capabilities naturally. It is their own innate power.
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I can accept that the maiar were able to control other spiritual forces because they were in essence spirits themselves. What I have in mibd is perhaps the domination of the maiar on an astro/spiritual plane over the lesser spiritual faces.
But I am not so sure of high the elves were able to manipulate flesh and matter. Perhpas that was a gift of the creator?
And speaking of the poor spirits that were used under sorcery, were did they come from. Were they lesser entities that entered the universe with the Ainur or were the created together with the world?
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Oaths are a very strong and powerful force in Middle-earth .
,They weren't cursed because Isildur said they were, but because they broke an oath, and oaths have a strong binding power in Middle-earth.
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Now that's something new to me. I think oaths themselves must have some sort of a bidding power as you have placed it - akin to the powers the maiar used for their bidding. Otherwise words spoken hold little substance. But by what power did oath work by? Did one have to swear upon the Gods of Arda or Illuvatar himself so as to get that deity's endorsement for an oath to work? Or was the Oath of Isildur created through whatever powers Isildur innately possessed?