[Lothiriel Silmarien]

By the way, I love your name. Turin is one of my favorite characters!
Ok, good question because I've wondered about this too. I don't think Tolkien explained them too much. He never really said much about them other than what's in Unfinished Tales, like you said. I guess they were pretty much not even noticed. They weren't in the White Council either were they? I don't think they were, someone please correct me if I'm wrong. But I think that since there wasn't anything about what role they played in the time of the War of the Ring, I always guessed that they just forgot completely the reason why they came to Middle-Earth. Most likely they just got caught up in the surroundings....? or something like that. Ok, let me some up because I know I must have lost you some place during all of my babbling. People must hate it when I post something! Ok, Pallando and Alatar probably went so far East, not WAY far, but far enough where people forgot about them and they probably isolated themselves where they didn't talk to people much. They didn't do what they were sent there to do, and I don't think they had anything to do with the War of the Ring. That's just my opinion though. But, they could have been apart of it, like helping prepare the armies and such, like that's maybe what Tolien meant by failing their job like Saruman. Hope my babbling helped!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]