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It's hard to tell who really dies and who doesn't in "The Lord of the Rings." The Elves pass away overseas to the Undying Lands in the West. Gandalf falls to his doom and then comes back stronger than ...

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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 ...

LOS ANGELES – In "The Fellowship of the Ring," Christopher Lee (search) appeared as the traitorous elder wizard Saruman (search), whose snowy white beard and robe hid his black-hearted intentions for ...

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 ...

History happens, it is transmitted from generation to generation, sometimes it is idealized, and at other times it becomes legend. As a story, Éowyn narrates the events of an ancient war waged by her ...

"Learned and powerful, Saruman devoted himself to studying the ways of his enemy, that he might therein devise a means of defeating him. To this end, he amassed within his tower a vast library of ...

“When we reached out to Gitte, Lady Lee, who’s sadly no longer with us… she said the thing that I think Peter [Jackson] felt in his heart, which was that Sir Christopher would have wanted this,” ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sir Ian McKellen has issued a touching tribute to Christopher Lee, saying he was made tofeel "inadequate" by the late acting great while ...

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