gandalf as a maia

[Boromir88]

Originally posted by The Phantom:Being wise and powerful is not the same thing as being very physically strong, very quick and agile, and extremely skillful with a weapon and experienced in hand to hand combat. Glorfindel is a warrior and I would expect him to have much more success in a physical battle than Galadriel.

We aren't talking about how good Galadriel could wield a sword. We were talking about her power compared to Saruman's. I made the connection with the Balrogs to show why Galadriel could contend with Saruman. Since it takes an extremely powerful person to slay a balrog (yes sword/weapon skill is a contributing factor, but it does you no good if you are mortal). It takes an innate power/"magical" person to slay a Balrog, that's why no mortal ever did.

I don't feel any reason to respond to the rest of your sarcasm since you clearly have missed the point.