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Legate of Amon Lanc · 09-11-2008, 12:03 PM

Well, it seems kind of natural to me. However, as to Éomer's words, "guises" may be just simply a disguise for an old man who goes to pick some wood to Fangorn, as we know it from the book. (Okay, maybe not exactly pick wood...) So not really any shapeshifting, just maybe some "spell-enhanced" change of clothes and such. Gandalf tells Gimli at Isengard that Saruman may choose to look like Gandalf in Gimli's eyes if it fits his purposes, however I believe this too doesn't refer to actual shapeshifting but to mere seeming, the same as his Voice - after all, he sure wouldn't seem the same to everyone's eyes, and it would be physically impossible to achieve that by shapeshifting.

09-11-2008, 12:03 PM	#4
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Well, it seems kind of natural to me. However, as to Éomer's words, "guises" may be just simply a disguise for an old man who goes to pick some wood to Fangorn, as we know it from the book. (Okay, maybe not exactly pick wood...) So not really any shapeshifting, just maybe some "spell-enhanced" change of clothes and such. Gandalf tells Gimli at Isengard that Saruman may choose to look like Gandalf in Gimli's eyes if it fits his purposes, however I believe this too doesn't refer to actual shapeshifting but to mere seeming, the same as his Voice - after all, he sure wouldn't seem the same to everyone's eyes, and it would be physically impossible to achieve that by shapeshifting. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

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