Lord of the Rings' worst traitor. Saruman, seems to die quite the death in the films. However, what really happens to the ...

Tolkien writes about five wizards, two of whom feature heavily in the Lord of the Rings books: Sauron and Saruman. Read More: Why Sauron Can Change Form on The Rings of Power At the end of Season 1, ...

The Rings of Power takes place thousands of years before the events of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the ...

In the Third Age Saruman will first serve Sauron as a follower. He will then secretly try to usurp the Dark Lord as ruler of Middle-earth. Saruman’s ultimate second fall is directly connected ...

Lord of the Rings’ palantíri may seem like regular fantasy crystal balls, full of evil influence, but they weren’t always ...

Before being known as Gandalf, this wizard or istar was Olórin, just like Saruman, who was also once a Maia. While Morgoth ...

Sauron began his days as Mairon (“the admirable”), a powerful Maia—spirits who came to Arda to help the Valar shape the world. (Other Maia include Gandalf and Saruman.) He was a pure and ...

Hinds is no stranger to fantasy adaptations: He has had roles in both Game of Thrones and Harry Potter. However, in The Rings ...

And the Istar’s mystics spent season one looking for the Stranger because they believed he might be Sauron. In the Third Age Saruman will serve Sauron as a follower before trying to usurp him as ...

Still, Gandalf—that is, if The Stranger is Gandalf—would not approve of another wizard starting a cult when his mission is to stop Sauron. A confrontation between Gandalf and Saruman so early ...