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Ultimately, Tolkien leaves us to ponder the fate of the Blue Wizards. He suggests they may have established secretive cults of dark magic that persisted long after Sauron’s contingent was vanquished. In his unfinished work The New Shadow, intended to explore the stories of Gondor a century after Sauron’s fall, Tolkien presented the notion that discontent among the populace could lead to the rise of sinister religious sects, hinting at a legacy of darkness possibly tied to the Blue Wizards.