Middle-earth's Most Powerful Beings | The Ranking Tolkien Refused
Who is the most powerful being in Middle-earth? Tolkien refused to answer, and his reason is better than any tier list. This deep dive ranks Arda's powers and keeps breaking its own rules: Eru, the Valar, Manwë, Morgoth and Tulkas, the Maiar Sauron, Gandalf and Eönwë, and the two beings no hierarchy holds: Ungoliant and Tom Bombadil.The only formal ranking Tolkien wrote, the Aratar, leaves out Tulkas, his strongest fighter, proof it was never a power ranking. In Morgoth's Ring he judged Sauron effectively greater in the Second Age than Morgoth at the end of the First. And the famous Eönwë…
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