Melian

To be fair, Melian is putting up reasonably good numbers at Class AA that are much more meritorious when you consider he is just

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It's no accident Melian is the only right-handed hitter.

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The envoys were invited to a private conference with the chief men of the island; and between the representatives of Athens and the Melian nobles there ensued an extraordinary dialogue, which is given at great length by the historian, and is commonly known as the Melian Debate.

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It's also notable for featuring Tolkien's best use of female characters (Melian, Luthien, Nienor and so forth are much more interesting characters than Arwen and Eowyn) and both his most kick-ass moments (the elves of Gondolin showing how they dealt with multiple balrogs back in the day) and his most surreal (Sauron getting his arse kicked by a wolf).

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Further, Maia can have children and spousal relations as is evidenced by the case of Melian and Thingol, Maia and Eldar, respectively, parents of Luthien, one of the ancestresses of Aragorn.

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When Thingol died, Melian cast off her physical form and returned to the West, still very much alive in all senses that mattered to a Maia.

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To get a feeling for the answer, we might recall the famous passage from the Melian Dialogue: "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

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That is a perilous quest, and indeed a hopeless one, as Thingol and Melian, her hosts and protectors, have warned her.

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‘Either because they (men) sprang from the Melian nymphs (cp.l. 187); or because, when they were born (?), they cast themselves under the ash-trees, that is, the trees.’

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007