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Old 08-17-2004, 12:06 PM   #1
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Blue Wizards

Well if Radagast became obssesed with animals why not them? on of the Blue Wizards(blue being like water) could have become interested in fish, fishing,and all things water, while the other could have Become interested deel in the folk of the south, like Gandalf and the Shire. But unlike Gandalf he stayed there for many years
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Old 08-17-2004, 12:30 PM   #2
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Recently there was a program on BBC TV here in good old Blighty, called the Big read. On it viewers voted on their favourite book. Not surprisingly Lord of the Rings was the victor (Cheers). On it One of Tolkien's relations came to receive the award and said;

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"I often asked him about Middle Earth. Mainly of the two blue wizards. He did have a good many stories about what happened to them."
So there must be some history to Alatar and Pallando, weather it was written down or not is a different matter. Perhaps Christopher did not find any or was not aware of it. Or perhaps he did not think it important enough. Who knows?
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Old 08-17-2004, 12:32 PM   #3
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thats an interesting angle
Lately, i am kind of liking the angle thats referred to in HOME, where the author was toying with the idea of Sauron's rings going not only to the various races but to orcs and wizards as well. hmmmm an orc with a ring of power...... , a wizard wraith..... awsome possibilities there

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Old 08-17-2004, 08:24 PM   #4
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Well if Radagast became obssesed with animals why not them? on of the Blue Wizards(blue being like water) could have become interested in fish, fishing,and all things water,
They are unlikely to have become enamored of things to do with water since despite wearing blue, they were sent by Orome.
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Here is all that Tolkien has written about them:

Middle-earth FAQ: The 'Other' Wizards

There are two vague references to the Blue Wizards - one in the section on the Third Age in the published Silmarillion and the other in The Lord of the Rings when Saruman speaks of the staffs of the Five Wizards.

The only writings Christopher has supplied us with (and what I presume to be the only writings period, whether published or withheld by him) that speak of the Blue Wizards are in The Istari chapter of Unfinished Tales and a smaller section in the History of Middle-earth, Volume XII.
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