NecromancerRising
Hithlum
Oct 5 2024, 5:38am
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That was my thought. In the books there are no direct references to the presence of Gandalf during the Second Age, but this example help us understand that perhaps, for Mr. Tolkien, this character could have traveled to Middle-earth in that period too, or at least that it was a concrete possibility. We are talking about a dialogue that took place before Galadriel’s reception of Nenya, and which therefore must be placed in the Second Age. Many of Mr.Tolkien's books leave great room for interpretation and alternative solutions, and much more of his material is still unexplored by the public. And if i combine that interpretation with Mr.Tolkien's letter 211 about the Blue Wizards "“I really do not know anything clearly about the other two [wizards] – since they do not concern the history of the N[orth].W[est]. I think they went as emissaries to distant regions, East and South, far out of Númenórean range: missionaries to ‘enemy-occupied’ lands, as it were. What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and ‘magic’ traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron.” , my safest bet right now is that the DW's arc matches totally with the arc of a Blue Wizard and i seriously hope this is the case. Making him Saruman, would be a terrible choice and that would be a significant contradiction to what we see of their relationship later at the Third Age.
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(This post was edited by NecromancerRising on Oct 5 2024, 5:38am)
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