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Wizards & the Istari — Five Maiar in the shape of old men, sent to counsel rather than to rule.
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Gandalf
Wizards & the Istari · The Fellowship
A Wizard of the Istari, keeper of the Elven-ring Narya, and the chief architect of the resistance to Sauron.
Saruman
Wizards & the Istari · Isengard
The chief of the Wizards, whose study of Sauron’s power corrupted him into a would-be rival lord.
Radagast
Wizards & the Istari · Isengard
A Wizard devoted to beasts and birds, who served as a watcher of the wilds rather than a power in councils.
Alatar
Wizards & the Istari · The East
One of the two Blue Wizards who journeyed into the East and of whose fates little is known.
Pallando
Wizards & the Istari · The East
One of the two Blue Wizards, companion of Alatar in the East.