Where's 🧙Radagast? Anyone?

[Bucky]

He became The Croc Hunter.....

 

[Lord Aragorn]

I believe that he went into solitude, to be among the creatures of ME which he loved.

 

[Elanor]

I like your theory Bill, that answers the question of how a freakin moth gets into the story. bwahaha

 

[Beleg Strongbow]

Originally posted by Elanor
I like your theory Bill, that answers the question of how a freakin moth gets into the story. bwahaha

No seriously he in the end forsook society and left the free peoples and lived and hid with the birds and animals and therefore forsook men and his task having to stay in M.E only gandalf stayed loyal. He is probably living there still now with the birds he saw no chance in men with the war so he forsook it.

 

[Anamatar IV]

What happened to Radagast?

Does anyone know what happened to radagast? Was he mentioned anywhere other than a few paragraphs in TFotR? Also was he evil or just serving the white wizard before he knew he had turned to evil?

 

[Confusticated]

This is some of what Gandalf tells at the Counsil of Elrond. Radagast was not evil, he just did something that Saruman asked him to do.

"Radagast the Brown! " laughed Saruman, and he no longer concealed his scorn. "Radagast the Bird-tamer! Radagast the Simple! Radagast the Fool! Yet he had just the wit to play the part that I set him.

`At first I feared, as Saruman no doubt intended, that Radagast had also fallen. Yet I had caught no hint of anything wrong in his voice or in his eye at our meeting. If I had, I should never have gone to Isengard, or I should have gone more warily. So Saruman guessed, and he had concealed his mind and deceived his messenger. It would have been useless in any case to try and win over the honest Radagast to treachery. He sought me in good faith, and so persuaded me.
`That was the undoing of Saruman's plot. For Radagast knew no reason why he should not do as I asked; and he rode away towards Mirkwood where he had many friends of old. And the Eagles of the Mountains went far and wide, and they saw many things: the gathering of wolves and the mustering of Orcs; and the Nine Riders going hither and thither in the lands; and they heard news of the escape of Gollum.

I don't think his departure from Middle-earth is written about, but I have not read everything and could be mistaken.

 

[Anamatar IV]

I wanna KNOW! anyways maybe he died. Im gonna use my imagination...i dont like the idea of him just sailing away so...he was flying an eagle spying on mordor when an orc threw a chain into the air and it strangled the neck of the eagle and the eagle with radagast fell into mt. Doom. I think that makes perfect sense

 

[Confusticated]

Well remember that he was a Maia. He probably would have ended up back in Aman if he "died" in Middle-earth.

 

[Maeglin]

And anyway I don't think that a chain could take down one of the eagles, remember they work for Manwe himself and are part Maia, so I think the eagle would just fly off with the orc hanging on to the chain for dear life.

 

[Anamatar IV]

no i mean like in the simpsons when homer changed his name he took off his chains and threw the whole bundle into the air and it strangled an eagle. Im saying an orc threw a chain up and without noticing strangled an eagle. But im just joking. Maybe they were flying right over mt. doom and suddenly a burst of lava killed them both.

 

[Maeglin]

What became of Radagast?

I always liked Radagast and wished he would have been more involved in the story. But anyway my question is what ever became of him after the war of the ring? Did he ever go back into the west, and if so, when? We know he didn't go with Gandalf and Frodo and the rest of them, but maybe he left with Sam all those years later? I mean he really had nothing else to do, unless he became an advisor or Aragorn's or something, but I doubt that. Is it mentioned what ever happened to him anywhere?

 

[Maeglin]

Why Gandalf call Radagast his cousin?

" I am a wizard," continued Gandalf. " I have heard of you, if you have not heard of me; but perhaps you have heard of my good cousin Radagast who lives near the Southern Borders of Mirkwood?"

Why did Gandalf call Radagast his cousin? Was it just so he didn't have to explain to everyone what he and Radagast really were and thought it would be easier just to say that? I mean they weren't really related were they? Unless they were born into the same family in the west, which would make Saruman and the other two their relatives as well. But anyway if Radagast is his cousin, and him and Gandalf still saw each othe reasonably frequently, why didn't he just ask Radagast to guide the company through Mirkwood? Radagast had nothing better to do, and I was told in another thread that he wasn't part of the white council, so he probably wasn't helping deal with the necromancer at the time when Gandalf left the company. Anyone have anything to say about this?

 

[YayGollum]

Yay for Radagast Fans! Radagast is the coolest! Anyways, no, I've never seen his final destination mentioned anywhere. I'd like to think that he just stayed in Middle Earth, always having fun hanging out with animals in northern Mirkwood. Not too sure, though. Maybe somebody else knows something.

 

[Maeglin]

Well I'm glad there's another Radagast fan anyway.

 

[JanitorofAngmar]

I could tell you...I see him once or twice a year you know...

Ask me sometime and I'll give you the rundown.

JoA

 

[YayGollum]

Oo! I do! I think Gandalf said he was Radagast's cousin because he really was. I always thought that all of the Valar and Maiar showed up at the exact same time, whenever Eru decided to make them. Cousin can be used for lots of different ways to be related. If you're not really sure how he's related, but you know he's related, you might say, "Oh, he's just my cousin." But then, I kind of forgot about the possibility that Gandalf and Radagast and the rest of them might not have shown up at the same time. They could very well have been descendants of dudes who did show up at the beginning of time. I don't know.
Anyways, I think that Radagast wasn't asked to help out with the hobbit adventure because he always seemed to me to be the kind of guy that likes to stay to himself. Not get caught up in all kinds of troublesome adventures. He was the most average joe of all the wizards. He was a good friend of Beorn's, who also liked to stay to himself. oh well. Yeah. Those are my thoughts. Yay Radagast!

 

[gate7ole]

A far fetched explanation:
We read from UT that:
Each istari was chosen by a Vala.
Olorin(Gandalf) was the representative of Manwe and Varda.
Curumo(Saruman) of Aule.
Aiwendil(Radagast) of Yavanna.
Now Varda and Yavanna were sisters and that makes Gandalf and Radagast cousins in a more general way.
Aule was not related to Manwe or Varda, so Gandalf and Saruman can't be cousins under the same perspective.

 

[Mrs. Maggott]

We know that Gandalf left Middle Earth because his foe was Sauron and that battle was over. He no longer wished to act as counsellor to any man or elf; he had fulfilled the duty he had been sent to perform and longed for his home in the West.

However, we do not know what Radagast's "duty" was. Certainly, he was part of the White Council and as such was an enemy to Sauron, but he may have had some other obligation to Middle Earth as well, especially with regard to its environment, animals, plants etc.

Perhaps with the banishment of Sauron, it would be Radagast who would come forward and work to heal the lands that the Dark Lord had ruined (the brown lands, the lands before the Black Gates, the Dead Marshes etc.). If that were indeed the case, then that Wizard would have remained in Middle Earth well after the departure of Gandalf and worked with the folk there - men, dwarves, hobbits and remaining elves - to heal the land of the blight of Sauron. At least it seems to me that this might have been the "duty" imposed upon him by the Valar given his partiality to the living things of Middle Earth.

When the scars which Sauron left upon the land were no more, then Radagast, too, would have departed into the West having fulfilled his reason for being in Middle Earth.

Mrs. M.

 

[YayGollum]

Well, I always thought that all of the wizards were sent to get rid of Saruon. Radagast and the blue wizards just decided to hang out in Middle Earth, being safe for a while, having fun and stuff. They were just saying, "Hey, we're all immortal. We'll go get him some other time." Just because Radagast wasn't in the White Coucil doesn't mean that he wasn't sent for the same reason as Gandalf. But yeah, I like your idea about Radagast having that other mission. Maybe the blue wizards had another mission, too. I don't know.

 

[Mrs. Maggott]

I'm sorry. I thought Radagast WAS one of the White Council and indicated as much in my post. Oh well, it was morning - and you know what that means!

Anyway, I did believe that he was one of the Council as were all the Wizards. Otherwise, if all they had was Gandalf and Saruman, it could hardly be called a "Council", could it.

Thanks for posting!