The brief scene between Radagast and the Necromancer was certainly more haunting.

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In the film, Radagast discovers the Necromancer of Mirkwood (in the tower of Dol Guldur in Mirkwood) and then hastens to warn Gandalf and the rest of the company.

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Radagast did, in fact, live on the Western edge of Mirkwood, and could easily have encountered the Necromancer in his wanderings through the dark, forested area near the Tower of Gol Guldur.

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Rateliff maintains that Sauron first appears in the Tolkien legendarium as Sauron the Necromancer in the poem, The Lay of Leithian, and after the destruction of the tower at Tol Sirion, the Necromancer fled to Taur-na-Fuin, which he thought to be Mirkwood.

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This time the game will be getting a King of the Hill mode with the charming necromancer Merasmus at the top of the pile lobbing spells and bombs at players.

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In no obvious sense an opera, it's a sense-of-nation-defining pageant based on the career of the Tudor-era magus, necromancer and astrologer.

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The story of Queen Elizabeth I's necromancer, John Dee, as transcribed from original documents interspersed with Michael Wilding's own words.

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