Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-25947183-20141231153052/@comment-25947183-20150102143905

The Aratar are basically the eight most powerful Valar. Maybe if you worked really hard for the Valar and slayed tons of monsters you might get promoted? Tulkas was originally a Maiar i think but was promoted to Valar because he scared off Melkor(or Morgoth). Gandalf is Maiar but with most of his powers removed from him so he can fit in to Middle-earth and pretend to be less strong and all of the five Istari(or Wizards) and Tom Bombadil(who didn't have his powers removed and probably is Maiar) are secretly Maiar according to the Silmarillion. Also Dragons, Balrogs, Spiders and everything evil except Orcs and Trolls and less powerful monsters were once Maiar. So if the player became a Maiar he would still have to contend with the other corrupt Maiar(e.g. Balrogs and Dragons). And when the player goes to Middle-earth he would have to go "under cover" so he is not spotted and identified as a Maiar by Sauron as easily and the player would have to have some of his powers removed from him until he goes back to Valinor.