Pallando

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Pallando
Biographical information
Other names	Pallando the Blue, Rómestámo, Palacendo
Birth	Before the creation of Arda
Death	Immortal
Weapon	Wizard staff
Physical description
Race	Ainur
Culture	Maiar (Guardians, Order of Wizards)

Pallando was one of the five Maiar who made up the Order of Wizards that was sent to Middle-earth to aid the Free Peoples in their struggle against Sauron.

History

Before he came to Middle-earth, Pallando was a Maia of Oromë the Huntsman. He was taken to Middle-earth at the bidding of Alatar, another Istar who took him as a friend.

Pallando and Alatar (known as the Blue Wizards for their sea-blue robes) traveled to the east of Middle-earth with Curumo (Saruman the White) to aid some men and subdue others, primarily the Easterlings and Southrons who worshiped Sauron, and whose numbers were steadily increasing. Saruman later returned to the West, but Pallando with Alatar stayed behind.

Other than this, not much is positively known about Pallando, but it is thought that he most likely failed his mission. However, in Tolkien's later years he provided an alternate name for the wizard, "Rómestámo," meaning "helper of the East".

Character

When Pallando came to Middle-earth, he was clothed in flesh and had the appearance of a wizened old man, though he did not look as old as Gandalf. He, along with Alatar, was dressed in robes of sea-blue, which is why they both came to be known as "the Blue Wizards" or Ithryn Luin. Pallando had a grey beard which was not as long as either Gandalf's or Saruman's. He carried a staff, as did the other Istari, which he could use to channel his magical powers.

Etymology

• Pallando (IPA: [palˈlando]) is his first known name in Quenya. Its meaning was never explained by the author, however has been suggested that the stem could be palan ("far") and the ending the masculine agental suffix -ndo.
• Palacendo that means "Far sighted one" in Quenya.
• Rómestámo (IPA: [ˌroːmesˈtaːmo]) that means "East-helper" in Quenya, from Rómen, meaning 'east', and stámo, meaning 'helper'.

In adaptations

In The Hobbit trilogy

When talking to Bilbo, Gandalf mentioned the two Blue Wizards in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. When Bilbo asks how many Wizards there are, Gandalf states that there is himself, Saruman, the two Blue Wizards (whose names he has "quite forgotten"), and Radagast. The filmmakers did not own the rights to the names, which were published in Unfinished Tales, which is why Gandalf could not remember them.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Amharic	ፓለንዶ
Arabic	بالاندو
Armenian	Պալլանդո
Belarusian Cyrillic	Палландо
Bengali	পাল্লান্দ
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Паландо
Chinese	帕兰多 (Pallando) 羅密斯達奴 (Rómestámo)
Georgian	პალანდო
Greek	Παλλανδο
Gujarati	પૅલેન્ડો
Hebrew	פלנדו
Hindi	पल्लन्दो
Japanese	パルランド (Pallando) ローメスターモ (Rómestámo)
Kannada	ಪಲ್ಲಂಡೊ
Korean	팔란도
Macedonian Cyrillic	Паландо
Marathi	पल्लंडो
Mongolian Cyrillic	Палландо
Nepalese	पल्लन्दो
Pashto	پیلاندو
Persian	پالاندو
Punjabi	ਪਲਾਨਡੋ
Russian	Палландо
Sinhalese	පල්ලන්දෝ
Tajik Cyrillic	Палландо
Tamil	பல்லாந்தோ
Tatar	Палландо
Telugu	పళ్ళందో
Thai	พัลลันโด
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Палландо (Pallando) Роместальмо (Rómestámo)
Urdu	پاللندو
Uzbek	Палландо (Cyrillic) Pallando (Latin)
Yiddish	פּאַללאַנדאָ