I'm not sure if this is the best spot to continue a discussion on the Blue Wizrds, now that Man-of-the-Wold's question has been answered, but 'm going to anyway.
Perhaps the Blue Wizards who went east did so with the intention of breaking up the alliance of Sauron and the peoples of the east? Perhaps in this they failed and were killed (which is why they disappear from the records)?
My memory fails me about Gandalf and his encounter in Moria. I know he comes back (which seems to suggest the Istari can't be killed but reborn) - does this mean that as Maia the Blue Wizards can't have been killed in the east? If their mission was to thwart Sauron they wouldn't have simply wandered off would they?
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