This Creature is Lore

Re: Genderbent!Pallando. My fanon’s got the Maia as female (Pallandë), and the later wizard as male. It was one of those lightbulb-over-the-head moments: “There’s nothing saying the wizards looked old when they were Maiar in the Blessed Realm--HOLD THE FUCK ON. There’s nothing saying the wizards looked like males when they were Maiar in the Blessed Realm.” It also means I’ll eventually have to write how it came about that apparently the Istari weren’t allowed to look young OR female.