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Originally Posted by Zigūr
Certainly in Letter 144 he does refer to them as "primeval spirits", although that doesn't necessarily mean Maiar as we understand it now.
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Good point. I simplified the matter too much above, although I was centering on "primeval spirits" compared to Melkor-made creatures. The terms
Maiar and
Umaiar (for Balrogs) do appear in the early 1950s (if CJRT's guess about AAm* is correct), but the matter is not so simple, as you correctly suggest (for example:
Maiar "the beautiful" at a point in this phase, and the Valarindi, the children of the Valar).
I should have gone with "primeval spirits" versus Melkor-made
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I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to make to be honest
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I rarely am sure what point I'm trying to make