The Dark Lord Sauron and the White Wizard Saruman were the two main villains of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and by the end of the story, both of them seemingly met their ends.

In The Lord of the Rings, Saruman is envious of Gandalf despite being the head of the order of wizards and wise and powerful ...

Saruman the White will arrive as the noble, good, powerful leader of five wizards. But after a long time he will succumb to darkness. He will ally with sinister forces, including Sauron ...

Saruman is the leader of the Istari, the wizards sent to Middle-earth in human form to go up against Sauron. Saruman has a different arc than the other wizards, however, as he is corrupted by ...

In this episode, he confirmed that five Istari were sent to Middle-earth to oppose Sauron, and from Tolkien’s writings, we know exactly who those five wizards are: Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the ...

which ultimately leads to Sauron's destruction. Though, of course, Frodo has plenty of help along the way. Saruman – we don't learn who the mysterious Dark Wizard is, but, since he calls Gandalf ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist ...

Early teasers for the first season seemed to suggest he was none other than Sauron, but it’s become ... Blue Wizards Alatar and Palandar, Saruman the White, Radagast the Brown, and, of course ...