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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 549376" data-attributes="member: 363"><p>That's how I classify him, but it's all a matter of opinion. I just used deductive reasoning, but that doesn't mean I'm right. Here's how I reason it: the Ring was made to increase Sauron's power, and dominate the other Rings. There is never an instance that I know of in which a Maia is ever affected by anything less than a Silmaril, which the Rings, by extension, must be. Tolkien specifically mentions that the Istari are clothed in flesh so as to have the same weaknesses of Men, which includes the temptation of the Ring. Which means that Maiar are generally not subject to such weaknesses when not in fleshly form. The fact that Gandalf stopped off to talk to Bombadil, apparently as an equal, seems to further bolster the Maia argument. That's just my own reasoning, not anything official. I don't think it's weak reasoning, but I acknowledge that it may not satisfy anyone but me. Tolkien created Bombadil based off a toy of his kids, to use in children's stories. Fitting him into the cosomology of Middle Earth is not exactly easy, as apparently even Tolkien felt, based on his isolating Bombadil and keeping him out of things.</p></blockquote><p></p>