"Istari" = "The Wise; The Knowledgeable" (In Quenya)
Alatar and Pallando could have been sent to Middle-earth to fulfill Oromë's own agenda, just as Radagast may have been sent to Middle-earth to fulfill Yavanna's own agenda, whatever it may be. Oromë could have wanted the Ithryn Luin to "check on" the lands in the East, the same lands that he had discovered the Elves in.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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