Lesser Known Maia

[Kim Moehle]

Does anyone have any thoughts on casting for some of the minor league players, specifically the Maia?

Arien is my all time favorite ever so she is who I'm thinking of when posting this thread but it might be a good idea to have a casting thread for smaller role season one characters characters.

 

[winrobee]

My idea for Ungoliant:
Someone who waits in the center of a web reminds me of government office worker. Somebody older; say late fifties. I get that they could be a look like the type of character Marla Gibbs, the maid on the (how many people remember remember the 70s?) TV show The Jeffersons played.

 

[MithLuin]

Maiar available to cast:

Eönwë
Ilmarë
Mairon/Sauron
Gothmog (+ other Valaraukar)
Arien
Tilion
Ossë
Uinen
Olorin (Gandalf)
Curumo (Saruman)
Aiwendil (Radagast)
Ungoliant
Thuringwethil

Did I forget anyone?

 

[winrobee]

Don't forget Salmar, maker of the horns of Ulmo.

 

[MithLuin]

Ah, true! Knew I was leaving someone out....

Also the 2 blue wizards, if we should want them.

 

[MithLuin]

Oh, and I like this as eye makeup for post-fallen Mairon or balrogs 🙂

https://www.instagram.com/p/-kESQNOyLK/?taken-by=luciferismydad

 

[winrobee]

Someone has taken the trouble to compile this chart of Ainur

 

[Nicholas Palazzo]

I imagine that a lot of that comes from the History of Middle-Earth, but ... I want that as a poster for my wall....

 

[ouzaru]

I really wish that chart was less interested in looking totally rad and more interested in compiling information in a readable format.

But then I am a curmudgeonly fun-hating grump.

 

[NotACat]

Apparently quite a bit is from MERP. I found it on DeviantArt where you can download an abso-blooming-lutely huge version.

 

[Nicholas Palazzo]

Yeah, I was just looking at the guy's deviantart page. He's done a lot of really good work of that nature. I actually have a lot of the MERP material and they also did a fantastic job of filling in the empty spaces of Tolkien's work, though I feel they kind of miss the point on how magic works in Middle Earth. (Occupational hazard of trying to design a game that does the same job as Dungeons and Dragons, I imagine.)

 

[Haakon]

What about Tevildo, the Lord of Cats?

 

[Phillip Menzies]

That is beautiful. Unfortunately it doesn't show some important stuff like siblings, ie. Manwe and Melkor are brothers born of the same thought.

 

[Haakon]

I've really enjoyed playing those games, but I'm not sure I'd like us to use all that RPG material. I'm not against material that's not strictly from J.R.R. Tolkien's own mind, and they've done a good job with the chart, but still, I'm hoping we could use it more as inspiration than as reference.

 

[Nicholas Palazzo]

That's kind of what I was thinking, Haakon. For instance, someone recently brought up the two 'Valar of War' that didn't make the cut of the Silmarillion. I was thinking about the 'proto-Orcs' that MERPs talks about. They and their followers could become those. Which brings up a matter I'm going to make a more full comment on once I'm done listening to the broadcast.