The Blue Wizards are The Lord of the Rings' most mysterious Istari. The Istari are a huge presence in The Lord of the Rings, even though many don't realize it. Gandalf is the most famous Istar ...

In the final episode, the Dark Wizard ... The Rings of Power newcomer Jamie Campbell Bower has 'revealed' his season 3 character – but it could be a Sauron-style misdirect Lord of the Rings ...

Here’s your first look at Ciarán Hinds as Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 playing new character Dark Wizard. The character is billed as “A dark and powerful wizard, whose ...

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 ...

Time will tell. When you hear dark wizard and Lord of the Rings, your mind will likely immediately go to Saruman. The Istar was sent to Middle-earth in the Third Age to help defeat Sauron ...

Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 finale ... up to Sauron and Ciarán Hinds’s mysterious “Dark Wizard.” And while Elendil knows that he’s going to reunite ...

Making Saruman the Dark Wizard would also rob the former’s betrayal of Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring of all of its dramatic weight. Seasons 1 and 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of ...

This Lord of the Rings article contains spoilers for The Rings of Power. When we meet the Dark Wizard in the second episode of season 2, he seems to possess powers similar to those of the Stranger ...

With this in mind, we'd say Hinds is playing either Alatar or Pallando, the "Blue Wizards" who are never really discussed in any great detail in The Lord of the Rings or the History of Middle-earth.

And combined with his appearance, loyal acolytes, hunt for Sauron, and his outpost in the East, The Rings of Power might now feature another legendary wizard from The Lord of the Rings.