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• aleph@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nope. Canonically, the blue wizards arrived around the same time as their more famous brothers, early in the Third Age.

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  • morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Blue_Wizards the later writings retconned this, and they arrived in Middle-Earth around the same time as Glorfindel.

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    • aleph@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s true, however that was more or less a footnote and not something that featured in the published works. Hence why I said ‘canonically’, as in ‘going by the books’.

      I think it would have been fine for the RoP writers to have The Stranger be a blue wizard on this basis, though.

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