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Gandalf, as a Maia, has got to be older than all left in Middle Earth.



Probably true, though as Gandalf himself refers to Treebeard as old.

In Chapter 5 of The Two Towers, Gandalf calls Treebeard "...the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." In The Return of the King, Chapter 6, "Many Partings", Celeborn addresses Treebeard as "Eldest."

If Maia are included, then Sauron and Radagast (if still alive) would be just as old.




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