The Middle Earth Popularity Cup

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Gandalf might not have been a hippie, but he certainly put Hippie-ish thoughts into the impressionable minds of teenagers in the 1970's. After reading the smoke ring sequence with Gandalf and Bilbo, I went out and purchased a churchwarden pipe...

That is the weirdest thing I have ever heard about Gandalf. That's like saying I'm a soldier because I shoot guns.

Gandalf represents more of a prophet than a hippie (I don't know where get the idea that he's a hippie). After all it was the task of the Istari to help the peoples of Arda in the fight against Sauron, Gandalf was the only one of the Istari that stuck to the task which made him a "voice in the wilderness", "a stone doomed to rolling." I just love the way he stirs up the hearts of rulers to fight and spreads the news of what is happening. I do wish that Tolkien would have written a book purely on the travels of Gandalf!


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