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New Rings of Power season 3 featurette teases the “history” between Gandalf and the Dark Wizard
A featurette for season three of *The Rings of Power* hints at a long, forgotten history between Gandalf and Ciarán Hinds’ Dark Wizard. The suggestion raises the possibility that the two could be Tolkien’s Blue Wizards, whose identities remain unknown, and may offer clues to a longstanding Middle-earth mystery.
Hinds says the pair have a history tied to a mission lost to time, while Daniel Weyman describes Gandalf accessing a “Dreamscape” that revives memories of them together on a mountain. Their cloaks appear bluish, prompting speculation, but the featurette does not confirm they are the Blue Wizards. Weyman says Gandalf’s quest at the start of the season will be to “win your old friend back”; the season is due to debut on Prime Video on 11 November.
In short
- Season three teases Gandalf’s past with the Dark Wizard.
- Their identities may connect to Tolkien’s Blue Wizards.
- Gandalf’s quest begins with winning back an old friend.
Explained simply
The Rings of Power is a television series set in Middle-earth, the fantasy world created by J.R.R. Tolkien. It takes place thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings, during an age when powerful rings are made and the Dark Lord Sauron rises.
Gandalf is a wizard familiar from Tolkien’s later stories. The Dark Wizard, played by Ciarán Hinds, is a character created for the series; Tolkien wrote about five wizards sent to Middle-earth, but left the identities and fate of two called the Blue Wizards largely unknown.
The series can draw on that gap in Tolkien’s history to connect the characters, though their cloaks and shared past do not establish that they are the Blue Wizards. Their story may offer viewers one interpretation of what happened to those two wizards.