The Blue Wizards: Did They Defeat Sauron? | Tolkien Deep Dive
Who were the Blue Wizards, Alatar and Pallando, and did they actually defeat Sauron? With Rings of Power Season 3 introducing a "Dark Wizard" in the East, the Blue Wizards are stepping into mainstream attention for the first time — here's the actual book canon behind them. In this deep dive into Tolkien's hidden East, we explore the two Istari written out of The Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's stunning late-life reversal about their fate. In 1958, Tolkien feared the Blue Wizards had failed, founding secret cults of magic in Rhûn. But in 1972, the final year of his life, he renamed them…
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