There are five named Wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings: Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, Alatar, and Pallando. We say "named," ...

The Blue Wizards exist because of a line Tolkien gave Saruman in The Two Towers, when, sarcastically, the cornered wizard protested against Gandalf’s promise to give him back his staff later, ...

Tolkien writes about five wizards, two of whom feature heavily in the Lord of the Rings books: Sauron and Saruman. Read More: Why Sauron Can Change Form on The Rings of Power.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is venturing into the grey areas of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, with Rhûn, Easterlings, and Ciarán Hinds’ new Dark Wizard.

Wizards — dark or otherwise — are rare and powerful beings in the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien, which meant we had to ask showrunner Patrick McKay about the Dark Wizard’s role in The Rings of ...

Tolkien wrote he didn’t know what exactly happened to the Blue Wizards of the Second Age, but he feared what befell them. And that fear mirrors the Dark Wizard’s story on The Rings of Power ...

Tolkien followed up on this in a letter he wrote in 1958, suggesting that the Blue Wizards must have abandoned their mission, likely creating cults rooted in dark magic, and the Dark Wizard seems ...

In Tolkien letter 211, he says of the Blue Wizards that “I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and ‘magic’ traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron,” though in his ...

As the school year at the University of Colorado Boulder begins, one group of students is learning the origins of orcs, elves, goblins, dwarves, wizards and other fantastical creatures inhabiting ...

Like much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lore, ... Hinds could be playing one of the blue wizards Tolkien said wandered the lands at this time. Or he might be another Istar entirely the show is introducing.