All 5 Wizards/Istari In Lord Of The Rings Explained. In Lord of the Rings, and all of Tolkien lore, there were five Wizards that came from Valinor to help the peoples of Middle-Earth defeat Sauron.

Known as the Blue Wizards, their story has much in common with Hinds’s Istar on The Rings of Power. In classic J.R.R. Tolkien fashion, the canonical history of the Blue Wizards in Middle-earth ...

Five wizards came to Middle-earth, so the Stranger could be any of them. When the Valar realized Sauron had returned, they sent the Istari to help the peoples of Middle-earth.

The Istari, known commonly as the Wizards, are pivotal figures in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium.They were not merely wise old men wielding magic but powerful spirits sent by the ...

In this episode, he confirmed that five Istari were sent to Middle-earth to oppose Sauron, and from Tolkien’s writings, we know exactly who those five wizards are: Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the ...