Maybe. If I do, I will definitely have to organize. As I said, I really found the game interesting, the different colours for instance were really exciting. Unlike the grey figures though, two of which came already broken. Anyway, thanks for the tip and enjoy!

I don't know alot of the characters in LOTR but I think it would be cool to finally get a Wizard hero.

Like the Blue Wizards

The Blue Wizards (or the Ithryn Luin) were two notoriously mysterious characters of Middle-earth. They were only hinted at in The Lord of the Rings, where Saruman says there are five Wizards. However, other writings of Tolkien have more to say. In a writing found in Unfinished Tales (p. 393), Tolkien writes that the two Wizards were sent to the East. Their names in Valinor were Alatar and Pallando, and they are Maiar of the Vala Oromë.

In a letter, Tolkien says that the two wizards went into the East, and likely failed their mission, perhaps having started magical cults. However, all of this changes in a text written in the last year or two of Tolkien's life (published in HoME 12). An alternate set of names are given - Morinehtar and Rómestámo (or Rome(n)star), Darkness-slayer and East-helper. It is not clear whether these names were intended to be replacements for Alatar and Pallando or whether they were a second set of names (for instance, their names used in Middle-earth). They are said to have arrived not in the Third Age, but in the Second, around the year SA 1600, the time of the Forging of the One Ring. Their mission though is still to the east, to weaken the forces of Sauron. And it is here said that the Wizards far from failed; rather, they had a pivotal role in the victories of the West at the end of both the Second and the Third Ages. At the same time, Tolkien considered the possibility that Glorfindel may in fact have come back to Endor (Middle-earth) around the same time as the Blue Wizards, perhaps even along with them.

Like most names in Tolkien's works, the names of the Blue Wizards are significant. The name Romestamo means East-helper, coming from the Quenya word romen, meaning uprising, sunrise, east. Here, Rómestámo incorporates not only his relation to the East of Middle-earth, but also his mission there: to encourage uprising and rebellion against Sauron. Similarly, Pallando may include the Quenyan palan meaning far and wide.

blue wizards would be nice, though i dont think we'll see them yet....they have zero basis in the events of middle earth, looking at the material so far ffg have no interest in the history drafts or letters, as they have enough work cut out with the conventional characters

richsabre said:

Agreed. It would be nice to see some of the more exotic locations in middle earth (Haradhrim! Please!), but there's still so much to be exploited yet I wouldn't've thought they'd get over there for a while yet. If we ever do, maybe in three or four years' time, I'd imagine they'd turn up as allies of some sort.

This talk of wizards puts me back in mind of that now ancient debate on how, if at all, Saruman will feature in this game

I still think it'll be a dwarf we're in for next, though going off the Mirkwood cycle, the first two packs have connected-heroes, followed by a completely random element, so we may hear the pitter-patter of proud feet after all...