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iandea14
Ossiriand
Sep 5 2012, 7:10am
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Who in Middle Earth is The most Powerful and could single handedly defeat anyone else?
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Honestly I'm not sure, so I really want to know what everyone else thinks so I can make up my mind.
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iandea14
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Sep 6 2012, 7:00am
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What living being would in your opinion win, obviously Eru would win but that's like picking the Yankees, we all know you're gonna win.
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Sep 6 2012, 7:28am
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It's quite hard to choose, I suppose. Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur, yet he was still defeated. It comes down to how one defines "powerful". 
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elevorn
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Sep 6 2012, 6:46pm
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Melkor feared his brother's wrath, and Tulkas whooped him a couple of times. So yes I suppose power would be the relative term here.
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Ataahua
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Sep 7 2012, 2:20am
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He plays the long game: Waits for people to die and enter his halls, then has absolute say over who leaves them (if ever).
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Escapist
Mithlond
Sep 7 2012, 2:29am
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Other than Eru, I think the answer is definitively no one
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precisely because of the power and creativity of Eru
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Sep 7 2012, 7:33am
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What kind of physical strength does Eru have?
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He might be able to create life, and intervene with the goings on of Arda, but who would win fistycuffs - Eru or Morgoth?
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sador
Gondolin
Sep 7 2012, 9:42am
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"The portcullis can be dropped right to the river-bed, but, that it's often left open. Why? If this is a fortress and Mirkwood has some very unsavory inhabitants, isn't this rather foolhardy of the elves? Or is it just arrogance?"
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Noel Q. von Schneiffel
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Sep 7 2012, 4:32pm
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Eru has the power of Creation, so he would create huge gargantuan fists of stone for himself, as big as the biggest body Morgoth could assume (when he still could). Heck, he could throw a continent at Morgoth if he wanted. He bent Middle-earth all round at the end of the Second Age, and I suppose he did it with one hand.
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dubulous
Nargothrond
Sep 27 2012, 8:53pm
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Is it a battle of wills or fists?
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I guess the answer depends on how we interpret the question. In a match of pure physical strenght, I could put a good deal of money on Tulkas. Even Melkor was afraid of him. But then as for other powers, he'd hardly be considered the most powerful.
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Elenorflower
Mithlond
Oct 7 2012, 7:28pm
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Sackvile Baggins. shes scary.
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aruman
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Oct 10 2012, 3:13pm
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Haven't read the "Silm" or any of the appendices in ages, so I can only really think of characters that are featured prominently in LOTR/Hobbit.
However, I feel one of the great things about Tolkien's works is that real "power" had little to do with physical strength.
That said, in a battle, a few very powerful beings might be:
Good: Elrond, Glorfindel, Galadriel, Bombadil, Gandalf, Eagles
Honorable mention: Beorn, Aragorn
Evil: Sauron, Balrog, Witch King, Ungoliant, Shelob, Saruman (before he lost his power, obviously), Watcher in the water, Smaug
Maybe the Mountain Giants mentioned in the Hobbit, not sure if those should be under good or evil
In the movies Elrond, Denethor, Haldir, Galadriel, and Celeborn stink.
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Durin's Folk
Lindon
Oct 24 2012, 8:09pm
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Here's what you have been looking for
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He or she should be impossible to kill and deadly on his attacks... therefore, besides the divinities in the world of Tolkien, the only one to posess these qualities is the King of the dead. This discussion is over.
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GothmogTheBalrog
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Oct 28 2012, 8:36pm
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Talking purse. Hands down.
"It was like a great shadow, in the middle of which was a dark form, of man shape maybe, yet greater; and a power and terror seemed to be in it and go before it." ~FotR
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iandea14
Ossiriand
Nov 7 2012, 7:01pm
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Aragron could take down the Kind Of The Dead or just release him. I'm not sure who I would pick, possible Tom Bombadil.
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Mithlond
Nov 9 2012, 4:47am
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Deserter!
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Faenoriel
Dor-Lomin
Nov 23 2012, 4:54pm
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Melkor comes closest, but not Morgoth//
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But every word you say today
Gets twisted 'round some other way
And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied
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