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Originally Posted by Ibrîniðilpathânezel
It's funny, but apparently Jackson had originally intended to mention the fact that the wizards were Maiar. In one of the various books that were published about the making of the films, one of those for FotR is "embellished" with quotes from the film broken out into boxes. One is a quote from Saruman, speaking to Gandalf, in which he says (as I remember it; the book is in storage somewhere), "Are we not both Maiar, members of a most excellent order...?" I don't recall the entire quote, but I do recall that the word is mentioned, and it is a line that never appears anywhere in LotR the book. It plainly came from the script as it stood at the time the book was laid out, and was either never filmed or was deleted.
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Problem is, if you
don't know about Gandalf's real nature, his return is pretty much inexplicable, and looks more like the standard Hollywood 'here's-one-of-the-favourite-characters-coming-back-to-help-save-the-day-just-when-you-thought-he-was-gone-forever' eye rollers, aka the
Han Solo Syndrome.