While the dreaded Dark Lord Sauron is the main antagonist of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, in some ways the more villainous foe in the story is Saruman the White, the fallen Istar who betrayed his ...

Why Could the Stranger Be Saruman? Ultimately, we don’t know who the Stranger is, aside from being an Istar, or a wizard. Five wizards came to Middle-earth, so the Stranger could be any of them. When ...

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Like much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s lore, the history of Istari during the Second Age is a muddled mess of conflicting tales, timelines, and monikers. In some accounts he wrote the Valar sent Istari to ...

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Fans of The Lord of the Rings movies — who watched Christopher Lee's Saruman die at the hands of Grima Wormtongue (Brad Dourif) and Sauron erupt after the destruction of the One Ring — may wonder what ...

Set between 2965 and the opening moves of the War of the Ring, these adventures invite players to serve, observe, or challenge Saruman the White at the height of his wisdom and the edge of his ...

Sadly, Christopher Lee passed away in 2015, long before The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim was conceived of and created. But despite this, we will see Christopher Lee return as Saruman in ...

The Rings of Power‘s second season is already teasing the Stranger’s true identity. Considering Daniel Weyman’s tall, unkempt magical mystery man wanders around in rags with halflings after arriving ...