noWizardme
Half-elven
Mar 31 2014, 8:24pm
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White, grey, brow, blue: the colours of undyed cloth, or colours put into it with everyday vegetable dyes. So my private, unprovable theory is that its part of the wizards being meant to look humble and plain.
It doesn't seem to make sense, does it, to invent the two Blue Wizards merely to send them off never to be seen again. Hence, I suppose, the recurring idea that there must be more to their story. But maybe it's just how Tolkien's imagination worked: it would tell him things like that there were Blue Wizards, then leave him to figure it out.
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"… ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.”
Arthur Martine
"nowimë I am in the West, Furincurunir to the Dwarves (or at least, to their best friend) and by other names in other lands. Mostly they just say 'Oh no it's him - look busy!' "
Or "Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Mar 31 2014, 8:26pm)
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