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Originally Posted by Zigûr
Interesting post/topic.
I also think he used "Valar" sometimes in a poetic or figurative sense to refer to the Valar and Maiar collectively.
Professor Tolkien did also say in Letter 183 that Sauron was "Of the same kind as Gandalf and Saruman, but of a far higher order", so if Gandalf is a Vala then Sauron and Saruman are too. In Letter 153 he says that Sauron was "a lesser member of the race of Valar",
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I scanned 153 are you sure its in that letter?
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