• Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    There's a theory out there based on one of J.R.R. Tolkien's letters that they start a new cult of Morgoth in the Fourth Age.

    The excerpt (from letter 211):

    I think that they went as emissaries to distant regions, east and south... Missionaries to enemy occupied lands as it were. What success they had I do not know; but I fear that they failed, as Saruman did, though doubtless in different ways; and I suspect they were founders or beginners of secret cults and "magic" traditions that outlasted the fall of Sauron.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      He also says they maybe rallied forces against Sauron in those places much like Gandalf did in Middle Earth. He never really settled on what they did.