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Originally Posted by Axbolt
In the hobbit Radagast the brown uses the stone from his staff to draw evil from the sick hedgehog, and for the first time I noticed that in the films all the wizards (Radagast, Gandalf, Saruman) seem to have a “stone of power” in there staff, it made me wonder what the significance of this might be, if there is any?
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Welcome,
Axbolt!
My guess is that they might be the kidney stones passed by Christopher Tolkien when told of the liberties taken by filmmakers with
The Hobbit.
Actually, I haven't seen those movies, so I don't know if that might have been mentioned in a deleted scene, perhaps.