Dark Wizard (The Rings of Power)

In the Second Age, presumably one of the Istari became known as the Dark Wizard at Caras Gaer, in western Rhûn. Tom Bombadil believed that this figure desired to join Sauron in his conquest of Middle-earth.
His specific identity is currently unrevealed.
== Biography ==
Sometime after his arrival in Middle-earth, he ventured East, to Rhûn, and encountered Tom Bombadil, desiring to learn more of magic. Afterwards he seized control over most of Rhûn, choosing Caras Gaer as his seat of power and surrounding himself with an order of Acolytes. But his ambitions did not end with the East: Bombadil feared that the dark wizard sought to forge an alliance with Sauron and to conquer Middle-earth together.
The arrival of a similarly enigmatic figure who became known as the Stranger in the manner of a meteorite attracted the attention of the dark wizard. Believing it might be Sauron returned, the dark wizard sent three acolytes, led by the Dweller, west from Rhûn to search for him and bring him to their lands. Though the Mystics found the Stranger, they soon learned that he was not Sauron but "the Istar" and were overcome by his power and disintegrated.
The dark wizard soon made use of a ritual to give the Dweller her physical form again in Caras Gaer, and learned from her of what had transpired. Having reprimanded his servant for her failure, he then tasked the Gaudrim Brânk to track down the Stranger, who was himself traveling into Rhûn in the company of two Harfoots. Following Brânk's return empty-handed, the dark wizard instructed the Easterling to find the two halflings while he himself dealt with the Stranger.
== Behind the scenes ==
As the character's true identity is as-yet unspecified, he is considered non-canonical until his character's identity is revealed as canonical. He was introduced in of and protrayed by Irish actor Ciarán Hinds.
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