Olatos the Red, also known as “The Bean Counter.”
Lore states he was the administrator who kept all the other Wizards in line.
Since I just finished watching The Rings of Power on Amazon, and am also reading Tolkien’s compilation The Fall of Numenor, I’ve a mind to talk about Tolkien’s Wizards.
First off, there weren’t that many of them. There are only three as characters in the main trilogy: Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White, and Radagast the Brown. In the appendices two Blue Wizards are mentioned who have gone into the far east of Middle Earth, but Tolkien explicitly states their deeds there are not known. In the Rings of Power series, which I’ll review later, it’s implied the Wizard of the Rhunic wastelands could be one. If so, it’s an interesting theory.
Personally, I don’t think the Wizards would be corrupted so easily. They were not human beings but Maiar, a kind of demigod who worked in conjunction with Tolkien’s pantheon of greater gods. Of course, Morgoth went bad and stole the Silmaril, so who knows.
In Tolkien’s ephemera the Blue Wizards are given names: Pallando and Alatar. They, along with the other Wizards, are known also by other names in the languages Tolkien created. For this post though I’m using only the common or vernacular ones.
The Forgotten Wizards of Middle Earth
| Albossar
Atnerom Dharmram the Green Esbror the Maiar Hilotho Ingrangtar Malarest Mudamther |
Olatos the Red
Osgreth Pathendi Rolamsar Sardash the Violet Tebrador Unéran the Gold Vesnandru |
