HINT- If you read the Silmarillion, you will find this out in a snap, as well as many other things.
Ah well, though. It is my way to provide explanations and not resources (curse my leniency! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]). Melkor and Sauron were both of the Ainur, the first beings in Middle-earth, but while Melkor was of the greater sundering, the Valar, Sauron was a Maia like Gandalf. The Istari were the wizards who were sent to Middle-earth from Valinor. There were six Istari: Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast, and the three Blue Wizards.
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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
.................William Wordsworth
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