[andrewas]

gandalf a mayar? never thought of it like that i must admit. i figured he might be one of the high elves, but not a mayar. still this way makes more sense. no, it dosent work.

LOTR/SILLMARILLION SPOILERS AHEAD, if you care.


gandalf dies, properly, and has a talk with manwe and gets sent back to middle earth temporarily. a mayar woudnt die if the first place, although a balrog is a fallen mayar so mayby. damn it, i just dont know. but then saruman is one of the istari and falls during the course of the books, and IIRC all of the mayar who lacked the wisdom to avoid siding with morgoth had already fallen.

anyway, the closest ad&d comes to gandalf (whatever he is) would be a human(for the look of it if nothing else) sorceror with additional melee abilities and maybe some cleric/unique spells as well.