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Gandalf has no real spells!
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Siddhartha
Lifer
None of the magic in LOTR was agressive except for causing fear. All action was done by muscle.
lowfatbaconboy
Golden Member
wussy ....psht people need to get blown up by fireballs......and possibly magic missle
PlatinumGold
Lifer
gandalf and the other wizards weren't wizards like in lesser fantasy books, these guys were a different SPECIES of being, remember that monster gandalf fought in the first movie? well, gandalf, saruman and the others are the same type of creature.
the battle scenes in ROTK wasn't about the power of Gandalf, Aragorn or any other single character, it was about the suscepibility of great power to the weak, sauron to frodo.
tolkien doesn't throw around spells and such just to make things look cool.
the battle scenes in ROTK wasn't about the power of Gandalf, Aragorn or any other single character, it was about the suscepibility of great power to the weak, sauron to frodo.
tolkien doesn't throw around spells and such just to make things look cool.
Nothing beats the good ole magic missle. Have you ever cast a magic missle sir?
The Five Wizards were sent to Middle Earth to combat the power of Sauron.
However, they were not to use their power directly against him, they were supposed to "move others to great deads" which is what Gandalf did mostly. They said after that he may have been aided by one of the Three Rings (Narya, or The Ring of Fire)) which was given to him by Cirdan the Shipwright.
Gandalf was the only wizard to stay true to his mission - Saruman "defected", Radagast went off into the woods, and the other two went off into the east of Middle Earth and weren't heard from again.
Another tidbit - Sauron, the Balrog, Gandalf and the other wizards are all of the race "Maiar", who came from "outside" of the earth (or Arda) in the very beginning.
However, they were not to use their power directly against him, they were supposed to "move others to great deads" which is what Gandalf did mostly. They said after that he may have been aided by one of the Three Rings (Narya, or The Ring of Fire)) which was given to him by Cirdan the Shipwright.
Gandalf was the only wizard to stay true to his mission - Saruman "defected", Radagast went off into the woods, and the other two went off into the east of Middle Earth and weren't heard from again.
Another tidbit - Sauron, the Balrog, Gandalf and the other wizards are all of the race "Maiar", who came from "outside" of the earth (or Arda) in the very beginning.
TheToOTaLL
Platinum Member
Guess I'll have to read the books one of these days! 😱
ThePresence
Elite Member
Who sent the wizards?
The Valar.
From the Encyclopedia of Arda:
" 'Valar' is the name given to the fourteen powerful spirits who took physical form and entered Arda after its creation to give order to the world and combat the evils of Melkor. They dwelt originally on the Isle of Almaren, but after its destruction long ages before the Awakening of the Elves they removed to Aman and there founded the realm of Valinor."
FYI, Melkor was Sauron's boss in the Second Age.
Read the Silmarillion, it gives the history behind everything. The only other book written by Tolkein concerning Middle Earth (with the exception of The Hobbit of course).
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