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   From: rimagen@toast.net   
      
   Paul S. Person wrote:   
      
   >>I'm assuming you mean the blue wizards here. Yes, I really liked this   
   >>moment. Gandalf talks about Saruman and then mentions the blue wizards   
   >>and stops to say that he seems to have forgotten their names - a wink   
   >>at us fans since the blue wizards didn't actually have names in Middle   
   >>Earth.   
   >   
   > Sorry, yes, blue wizards. Clearly, my mind was elsewhere for a moment.   
   >   
   > And I'm sure the Blue Wizards had names; we just don't know them, at   
   > least not from /TH/ and /LOTR/ (I believe I have read suggested names   
   > from other sources, but I could be confusing myself).   
      
   Alatar and Pallando, in the "Essay on the Istari" in /UT/.   
      
   >>> He also sees the Necromancer, although I suspect we are to understand   
   >>> that he is seeing him on the other side -- the one Bilbo inhabits when   
   >>> he puts on the Ring. I certainly hope so, as he sees him (the   
   >>> Necromancer) fully formed.   
   >>   
   >>More or less fully formed yes, but still more or less like a shadow.   
   >   
   > That is as good a description as mine is. We'll have to wait and see   
   > how he looks in the future films.   
      
   And whether he has wings.   
      
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