[GipperGal]

I've touched the Silmarillion but I don't recall Gandalf and Sauron being the same species.

They're not.

Note to everyone on this post: For the love of God, please do not compare this potboiler tripe to the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien was a scholar and a poet. The ding-bat broad who wrote these books is...well, just that -- a ding-bat.

[GipperGal]

BTW, I think we should all remember that the interrogators at Gitmo read these books aloud to prisoners as a form of torture.

Torture!

I tend to agree with our interrogators on the efficacy of this method. After a few chapters, I'd be singing like a canary.

[grellis]

I've touched the Silmarillion but I don't recall Gandalf and Sauron being the same species.

Gandalf (Olorin) and the other Istari are of the order of Maiar. Sauron in his origin was a Maia of Aule.

I'm reading The Silmarillion now, for the umpteenth time. Gotta have something to look at until Friday at midnight!