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I found it fascinating - must have missed it the first hundred readings - that Gandalf visited the pits of Dol Guldur multiple times. He was there so frequently that surely some thought that he worked there, and so never questioned his presence.

But I did have a question. When Gandalf and/or the White Council were sitting around trying to figure out what this new power that had blackened the Greenwood was, just what were the possibilities? I think that they may have considered the Úlairi, but if not these, who or what else could have inspired the title, "The Necromancer?" Surely the Wise had a short list of interesting persons.