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09-16-2006, 03:19 PM | #1 |
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The Istari
The Order of the Istari in Middle-Earth consisted of five Wizards. Three I can account for, but who were the other two? Why do they not make an appearance in the LOTR or at least get a mention?
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09-16-2006, 04:01 PM | #2 | |||
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The other two were the Blue Wizards, named Alatar and Pallando (Morinehtar and Romestamo in later writings) travelled into the East. At first Tolkien wrote that they had simply travelled into the East and what happened to them was uknown:
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09-16-2006, 04:04 PM | #3 | |||
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The Blue Wizards. They went east with Saruman upon arriving to Middle-earth. Only Saruman returned. Tolkien gave speculation at least two different times on what may have happened to them. Since he didn't leave a definitive story, the fate of these two is the source of much imaginative speculation and sometimes fan fiction stories.
I wrote an article about this a while back. The other Wizards: They're given the names Alatar and Pallando in Unfinished Tales, though it's possible that these weren't names, but titles, given due to their lack of names. Because they spent no time in the northwest of Middle-earth, they are not given names there like Gandalf had been given. Together they are referred to as Ithryn Luin, meaning "blue wizards" because they were clad in sea-blue robes. About Pallando's 'name,' Christopher Tolkien gives us this footnote in Unfinished Tales: Quote:
At Manwë's request for emissaries at a council, Alatar, a Maia of Oromë, was the second (after Curumo) and last to volunteer for the job. Alatar requested that he be able to bring along a friend, Pallando, who was also a Maia of Oromë. Upon the wizards' arrival to Middle-earth, they journeyed with Saruman into the east regions of Middle-earth (of which we know almost nothing). After a thousand years, Saruman returned alone. Tolkien was unsure of what happened to them. His thoughts on the matter are given in Unfinished Tales in a footnote to the 'Istari' chapter: Quote:
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