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Hmmmm....in danger of taking this thread somewhat off-topic (but not thinking this deserves a thread of its own)...
davem's point about Saruman as adopting an Elvish approach to the world made something twig for me: Gandalf's approach to the world is very Mannish/Hobbitish (the two races being, as Tolkien explains in the Prologue to LotR very closely related to one another -- something that comes through in the narrative clearly). So perhaps all the Wizards were 'assigned' or assigned themselves to a specific race or aspect of Middle-Earth...
Radagast is clearly "with" nature and not a race at all, but as we all know, nature in Middle-earth really does have a character and an almost conscious existence all its own.
So maybe we can extrapolate from this the fate of the two remaining Wizards..? If the Elves attracted Saruman (looking to the glorious past, ring-making, thought and contemplation but no action), Men & Hobbits attracted Gandalf (looking to the future, action and hope, growth), Nature attracted Radagast, then presumably one of the Blue Wizards would have been attracted to a Dwarvish view of the world (which is why he disappears so quickly from history -- like the Dwarves he is a delver and a searcher, but a hoarder and one who keeps what he finds and learns to himself).
Which leaves the fifth Wizard...which Race is he associated with... Well after Elves, Men/Hobbits and Dwarves there's only one important race left: orcs. So did that second Blue Wizard follow the way of the orcs???
Like I said, taking things off topic but I didn't have the energy to start a new thread. The mods can shift and start if they wish...
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