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Every adaptation of every book ever created is fan fiction. Jackson’s films equally so.
Rings Of Power Can't Go Another Season Without Explaining Where The Heck This Canon Character Is
In relation to the other comments made here, I find it quite strange that people spend their time watching programmes they don’t like.
I tend to find it to be quite useful in life to only watch things I do like.
As opposed to say - watching things I don’t like and then spending my time online slating them.
The Rings Of Power Season 2 Ending Explained (In Full)
Great last episode and good summary.
However the dark wizard is 100% not Saruman.
Saruman is regarded as both “good” and the leader of the Istari when the LOTR commences. due to the fact that he has essentially been a force for good until corrupted sometime relatively soon before LOTR begins.
Secondly there are some new interviews online now with the show runners where they are directly asked if the dark wizard is Saruman and they clearly state that he isn’t.
The dark wizard is going to be one of the two blue wizards who Tolkien states went into the lands of Rhun and may have been corrupted in his lore writings.
Thus his explanation to Gandalf in this episode that he (along with Gandalf himself) is one of the five wizards (just not Saruman).
Rings Of Power Season 2’s Dark Wizard & His Place In Tolkien Lore Addressed By Showrunner
Tolkien created five wizards. Two of them “blue” who unlike Gandalf existed in the second age (when the Rings of Power is set) and unlike Gandalf spent most of their time in Rhun. Rhun is where this new guy is and where the Stranger is going to.
Tolkien is vague about what happened to the blue wizards. He says maybe they turned evil and formed musical cults in Rhun, or maybe they fought against such cults.
It seems very likely to be that the Rings of Power is using both explanations - which is both a valid and pretty cool interpretation of Tolkien’s explanation.
They’re creating one evil cult leading blue wizard - this new guy (with his three disciples we saw in the first series) and one good blue wizard who will battle him - the Stranger.
They are both blue wizards and the Stranger is not Gandalf. Don’t let them fool you with a red herring about following your nose.
Different characters in Tolkien use the same phrases as a callback. For example both Bilbo and then later Pippin end up using the exact same phrase “the eagles are coming, the eagles are coming.”
They’re intentionally using this same callback technique with “always follow your nose”. It doesn’t mean they’re the same character.
The Stranger IS a blue wizard!