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Re: Tom Is
I am no maia, i can tell you that for sure.<img src=wink.gif ALT="
"> I always come back to the same piece of evidence when saying that Tom isn't a maia. If Melkor was the first ainu to enter Arda, which it is stated that he was, then Tom could not be a maia, because Tom was here before the Dark Lord came, before the mountains, etc. You could dispute that Melkor wasn't a dark lord in the beginning, I guess, but mountains and so on were all made from the get go, so unless Tom is either Melkor or Manwe then he isn't an ainu. Therefore he is either the embodiment of Ea/Arda, or he is another being sent be Eru(similar to the aunur, but not of their order), it does say there were others.
I really liked Gilthalion's post on Tom being one of the Fathers of Men, from Arda Unmarred, then he is fatherless, but not the oldest. Oh well.
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