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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 249416" data-attributes="member: 3230">Man, oh man! Is that a can of worms you're opening or what? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> This thread will either be dead silent or break the server with all the replies.Seriously, though, I am no ME scholar, but I'll take a stab at answering some of these.(edit: I see there were already replies on the other forum. Oh well! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) Spelling is close, reverse the U and the A. Sauron is/was a lieutenent of Melkor; the chief baddie of ME (essentially Lucifer). Most of the Melkor-related stuff is in the Simarillion. It was challenged. The battle the refer to in the beginning of the LOTR:FOTR movie is a challenge and an attempt to destroy Sauron. If you mean could another bad guy have taken over Mordor? If they had gotten hold of the One Ring, possibly. (I am not 100% sure on that one) Couldn't tell you. Sorry. On the "Organizational Flow Chart of EVIL" Balrogs are of the same type of being as Sauron; minions of Melkor. Though Sauron is MUCH more powerful, they all "reported directly" to Melkor. As to their numbers, I'm not sure. The number 12 jumps into my head, but I've have no evidence of that. This is just my impression, mind you. Someone more knowledgeable may shoot this down. Wizards are not men. They are agents of Melkor's enemies (the good guys/angels). There are only 3 mentioned in the LOTR books. Radagast the Brown, Gandalf & Sauroman. There are supposed to be others, but I don't know who they are. For rating them in power/authority, they are roughly equivalent to Balrogs; though individually varying in power somewhat.There are literally HUNDREDS of sources of discussion and speculation about Tolkien's Middle Earth if you want to research this more. There is also a d20 ME page hosted (I think) here on enworld.org. Hope this helps and is not TOO inaccurate.</blockquote>

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