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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Canonically, the blue wizards arrived around the same time as their more famous brothers, early in the Third Age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

According to https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Blue_Wizards the later writings retconned this, and they arrived in Middle-Earth in the 2nd age.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

That's true, however that was more or less a footnote and not something that featured in the published works. Hence why I said 'canonically', as in 'going by the books'.

I think it would have been fine for the RoP writers to have The Stranger be a blue wizard on this basis, though.