Like Frodo, he is Tolkien’s favourite personage.Įverywhere he is known as a tall robust old man with long grey beard and kind eyes, wearing a pointed hat and a long coat. Most likely that by the latter he was “christened” by his ill-wishers as Gandalf is wisdom itself. He has a number of nicknames: Gandalf Greyhame, StormCrow, the White Rider, the Grey Wanderer and the Grey Fool. It is hobbits and the Rangers of the North who called him Gandalf. The elves call him Mithrandir, the dwarves – Tharkun, the haradrims – Incanus. And many are his names in many countries. Gandalf dwells in different parts of Middle-earth. In “The Silmarillion” very little is said about the wizard but “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” definitely shed more light on his personality. In Middle-earth the wizard sympathized with the weak and those who heard his prayers were awakened from despair and ceased thinking about Evil. This gives grounds to believe that Gandalf and Olyrin was one and the same person. His ways took him often to the house of Nienna, and of her he learned pity and compassion. In “The Silmarillion” wisest of the Maiar was Olyrin who dwelt in Lyrien. “grey wanderer” in Sindarin) and Olyrin, a name given to him in Valinor. Gandalf is also known as Mithrandir (i.e. He can appear both in visible and invisible form.
1000) like any other maiar he was subject to the Volar. Gandalf the Grey, an immortal being, is a wizard, one of the five Istari (i.e.
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