It should have been painfully obvious when the Valar made their own little corner of the world a veritable resort (Club Manwe) and threw the rest to Morgoth. Did any of them really care about the rest of the world? (Except, of course, for Tickle Me Ulmo, $29.95 at Ainur-R-Us). And even when they _did_ finally deal with Morgoth (after making the poor downtrodden Eldar and humans come crawling on their knees with a Silmaril) they didn't clean up after themselves. How does one leave several Maia behind? Just miscounted? And look at the sorry lot of 'help' they sent against Sauron. Two of them disappear entirely (something to do with a pyramid scheme and the IRS, I understand), Radagast is completely useless (the Steve-Urkel of Maia), and one turns downright nasty. That's only a 20% success rate, bucko. Not so hot for the "Powers of the World" (Saturday morning on Fox Kids), IMHO.
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