Wizards & the Istari
Around T.A. 1000 the Valar sent five Maiar into Middle-earth in the guise of elderly Men, charged with stirring the free peoples against Sauron by persuasion alone. Only Gandalf remained faithful to the end. Saruman the White fell to pride, Radagast the Brown served the beasts, and the two Blue Wizards went east, their fates left deliberately unrecorded.
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Members
Five Maiar in the shape of old men, sent to counsel rather than to rule.
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.