When the Istari were sent to Middle Earth in the Third Age they were sent as old men and their powers were affected by the form they came in, they were not sent to contest Sauron but to aid the free people in fighting him. They were not here during the war of the Last Alliance, they came at or near they end of the 1st millenium of the third Age.
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*~*Call me a relic, call me what you will.
Say I'm old fashioned , say I'm over the hill.
That old whine ain't got no soul.
I'll stick to Old Toby and a Hobbit hole.*~*
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