Last Updated: August 2007

Hello fellow istari, my name is Merlin the Red. i am a Maia of Yavanna and for eternity , i was with her and my fellow Maia spirits but then War was upon Middle earth. the great Host of the Valar lft to wage war with Morgoth and his dread servants. i hated Mirgoth for he had stolen the great light of the Two trees of Valinor -Telperion and Laurelin. i had a grear foreboding in my heart as that Host left for i knew of old the tales of Melkor and i feared what evil he had wrought on Middle earth and i despaired of it. after the War of Power, i felf uplifted and delighted for that great eneny had been cast out into the Void and Abyss.

Manwe and Varda and Yavanna summoned me to speak with them. i was asked if i would go to Middle Earth to heal it of its wounds after all the great evil that had being doen to it. Yavanna said that i as the best of her Maia and although she hated the prospet of my leaving , she knew that it was necessary.

And so i left Valinor and arrived at the Grey Havens in the year 20 of the second age and i stayed there unitl the year 105 of the Fourth Age when i returned to Valinor with Celeborn. i was called Merlin in Valinor and maintained that name on Middle earth and beacme known as Merlin the Red for i always wore red robes.

For although my work was completed during the second age, the realm of Suron the Abhored endured and i needed to wait for his downfall to cleanse Middle earth. i battled long and hard during the second age with Cirdan and GilGalad and Galadriel and Elrond and was there at Bard Dur to see his downfall but alas, i was unable to complete my work for the foundations of the Dark Tower stood firm and unitl his complete downfall and destruction , they could not be moved. Fellow Maia came in 1000 of the Third Age and i my Friend Aiwendil there and Olorin, my old friend. how i delighted to see them. as For Curmno, i was anxious in spirit for him and alas, he turned traitor. i saw not Allatar and Pallando for they ventured in to the east and i never saw them but they were victorious in the end. alongside the White Council during the Third Age against Sauron. i roused the north and i aided the men and dwarves in the War of the Ring.

Then i cleansed and aided Mordor to grow and in the year 103 , i was completed. i made for Minas Tirith and said farewell to Elessar and Evenstar and then to Lothlorien for Celebor. he had grown tire of Middle Earth and wished to follow Galadriel into the West. and so , we passed in to the West, to the Undying Lands, ere it will be ever green and Yavanna had joyful tears in her eyes when she beheld me. for i had come home after 6547 years. i was home




 

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