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Originally Posted by radagast
Other writings of Tolkien indicate that the Blue Wizards' mission took them into the East and that they did not fail.
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As fate would have it, I went and looked things up this afternoon. This particular version of things is from the Last Writings section of
The Peoples of Middle-earth. In it, Tolkien puts forward the notion that the Blue Wizards came during the Second Age and apparently succeeded in their efforts to keep many Men of the east from siding with Sauron. However, CT points out that his father didn't seem to remember that he had already given the BW names. Moreover, this is the only time Tolkien says the BW were successful. There are many other references to the fact that only Gandalf succeeded. Perhaps Tolkien had it in mind to eventually change this, but for myself, I would tend to go with his "majority opinion," so to speak.