There are five named Wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings: Saruman, Gandalf, Radagast, Alatar, and Pallando. We say "named," because in the book "Unfinished Tales," which has many different drafts ...

doesn’t mean he’s The Lord of the Rings’ most prominent evil wizard. It’s true, in Tolkien’s lore, that Saruman was always jealous of his Istari peers, particularly Gandalf, and resolved ...

It’s more difficult to understand why the trilogy’s most prominent fans today are Silicon Valley tech lords like Elon Musk ...

with no elven strongholds and fewer wizards to oppose him. Tolkien’s texts describe Easterlings as having lived under Sauron’s dominion for so long that they couldn’t help turning to evil ...

It was originally thought that all five Wizards arrived on Middle-earth at the same time, but letters from J.R.R. Tolkien suggest that the Blue Wizards may have arrived earlier in the Second Age ...

In other cases, readers of Tolkien’s books may make connections with Nordic myths that don’t actually stand up under scrutiny, such as the idea that the wizard Gandalf the Gray from The Hobbit and The ...

Recently, Wizards of the Coast announced the newest Magic: The Gathering collection’s Tolkien tie-in. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth collection comes out on June 23, 2023.

giant talking trees who help the hobbits in their fight against the dark wizard, Saruman. Other Fiordland locations that appear in the films include the Waiau River, which stood in for Tolkien's ...