In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the White Council is a group of Eldar Lords and Wizards of Middle-earth, formed to contest the growing power of Dol Guldur, at the request of Galadriel. In the narrative, it is officially the Second White Council, a successor of that of the Second Age.
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