black wizard

Originally posted by Legalos:
<STRONG>In The Hobbit, Beorn doesn't know who Gandalf is, so Gandalf asks him if he knows his cousin Radagast (to which Beorn replies yes - Radagast's home was Rhosgobel on the outskirts of Mirkwood).

In LOTR, Saruman uses Radagast to lure Gandalf to Orthanc. It is also Radagast who sends the eagle to rescue Gandalf from Orthanc. It's also possible Radagast was responsible for a few of the other instances when the eagles just happened to show up in time to save _____. Radagast failed his "mission" (that the Valar gave him) by turning his attention to the care of animals.

Radagast in Adunaic means 'tender of beasts.'

Aiwendil, his name in Valinor, means 'bird-lover.'

[ February 08, 2002: Message edited by: Legalos ]</STRONG>

I read in "Of the Rings Of Power", that it was Radagast who lent Saruman the use of his crows. But he didn't know that Saruman was wicked by then and would use the birds perversely.