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Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea explored the question of how wizards learned their art, introducing to modern fantasy the role of the wizard as the protagonist. [9] This theme has been further developed in modern fantasy, often leading to wizards as heroes on their own quests. [10] Such heroes may have their own mentor, a wizard as well.
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Dune – Dune is an old wizard on Roke, friend of Elehal and Yahan. E. Elehal – Elehal is a mage on Roke, called Ember, partner of Medra, sister of Yahan. ("The Finder") Elfarran – Elfarran is the wife of Morred. Elt – Elt is a wizard wise in names. Emer – Emer is a woman of Semel. Called Gift. ("On the High Marsh")
Wizards like Gandalf were immortal Maiar, but took the form of Men.. The Wizards or Istari in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction were powerful angelic beings, Maiar, who took the form of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth in the Third Age, after catastrophically violent direct interventions by the Valar, and indeed by the one god Eru Ilúvatar, in the earlier ages.
Under the name Elphaba, she is the protagonist of the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel and the 2003 musical Wicked, and is born green due to an elixir given by her father (the Wizard of Oz) to her mother (the wife of the governor of Munchkinland) during their adulterous affair. Discovering that she has real powers, the Wizard of Oz orders her arrest ...
Wizard, guide to King Arthur Modron: Culhwch and Olwen, Welsh Triads, 11th century Welsh Triads: Mother of Mabon, in another folktale, she is the mother of Owain and Morvydd by Urien, Possible source for Morgan le Fay Mordred† Modred, (Welsh: Medrawd, Latin: Medraut) Annales Cambriae, c. 970 Many
Since the Romantic period, Merlin has been typically depicted as a wise old man with a long white beard, creating a modern wizard archetype reflected in many fantasy characters, [98] such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Gandalf [25] or J. K. Rowling's Dumbledore, [99] who also use some of his other traits.