Melian and the 🧙Istari.

[Tar-Elenion]

Not so fast Grond.
Ancalagon, can you find the passage in HoME that corresponds to the passage contained in 'Ruin of Doriath' in the published Silmarillion (CT with Guy Kay extensively wrote the Silmarillion chapter).

 

[Grond]

I can't find where the HoMe summarizes that chapter. The War of the Jewels has a small paragraph on the Ruin of Doriath but it does not address Melian's bodily form. I did find this in

from HoMe X, Morgoth's Ring, Myths Transformed[/i]
...In any case is it likely or possible that even the least of the Maiar would become Orcs? Yes: both outside Arda and in it, before the fall of Utumno. Melkor had corrupted many spirits -- some great, as Sauron, or less so, as Balrogs. The least could have been primitive (and much more powerful and perilous) Orcs; but by practising when embodied procreation they would (cf. Melian)[become] more and more earthbound, unable to return to the spirit-state (even demon-form), until released by death (killing), and they would dwindle in force. When released they would, of course, like Sauron, be 'damned': i.e. reduced to impotence, infinitely recessive: still hating but unable more and more to make it effective physically (or wound not a very dwindled dead Orc-state be a poltergeist?)