Giclée on unstretched canvas: 16 x 25"
(edition of 10)
$300

Alatar: Darkness-slayer

One of the Blue Wizards who 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 say that the two Wizards were sent to the East. Their names in Valinor were Alatar and Pallando.

In a letter, Tolkien says that the two wizards went into the East, and likely failed their mission, perhaps having started magical cults. They are said to have arrived not in the Third Age, but in the Second, around 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.