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Originally Posted by dammage79
From what I gathered, that Rhun Saruman lookalike isn't an Istari. More a witch king or one of the 9 kind of guys. He might get a ring.
Although the Blue Wizards might figure into things as well.
I'm guessing now the actual Saruman, is the nameless guy wandering around with the halflings. He was the 1st ( if you don't count the Blue Wizards)Istari to land on middle earth's shores in the books, so it should be him.
So far I've liked the first three episodes. Definitely has better pacing than the beginning of season one.
It's going to be fun watching celebrimbors descent into madness.
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I enjoy listening to Nerd of the Rings on youtube, and he still thinks the blue wizards could be who they are. From how he explains it, they are talked about in two different ways in Tolkein's writing. In one instance it talks about how they failed in helping to stop Sauron and instead set up secret cults and magic traditions. But then in his later writings he did amend that and stated that they helped out in the east and helped distract Sauron from being able to focus as much on the west. In his theorizing, he thinks this could be a good way to cover both accounts of the blue wizards by having one be good and the other be bad.