![]() ![]() Also in letter 211, he said, "what success they had I do not know but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways I suspect that they were founders or beginners of secret cults and 'magic' traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron". In Unfinished Tales Tolkien writes that, "indeed of all the Istari, one only remained faithful," referring to Gandalf. It is also uncertain whether they failed in their mission, but it seems most likely. Their mission was directed at weakening Sauron's forces in the eastern and southern parts of Middle-earth, whereas the other Istari were focused on the west. However, in The Peoples of Middle-earth, they are said to have arrived in the Second Age, around the year SA 1600, the time of the forging of the One Ring. In Unfinished Tales, Tolkien wrote that the five Istari came to Middle-earth together in TA 1000. The time that the Blue Wizards arrived in Middle-earth is uncertain. Alatar asked his friend Pallando to join him on his mission. Alatar was a Maia of the Vala Oromë who chose him to go to Middle-earth. Tolkien's Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age it is told that aside from Saruman, Gandalf, and Radagast, there were "others of the Istari who went into the east of Middle-earth, and do not come into these tales." Tolkien also writes in Unfinished Tales that the two Wizards were sent to the East whose names were " Alatar" and " Pallando". The existence of five Wizards is only mentioned briefly in The Lord of the Rings. What success they had I do not know but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and "magic" traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron." - J.R.R. Missionaries to enemy occupied lands as it were. History " I think that they went as emissaries to distant regions, east and south. 4.2 Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. ![]()
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