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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
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Gandalf can be fabulously grumpy, if I was to look for his 'character failings' I'd say having a tendency to be sarcastic and a bit 'short' could be one of them. He is what my grandad would have termed ornery. Maybe this was Tolkien writing the effects of lack of nicotine to the smoker into his story?
![]() But he'd never hit a Hobbit! For one, they aren't children but people and Gandalf recognised this more than most (I dread to think what might have happened had The Shire been closer to Rohan, after the Rohirrim record with hunting the Woses ![]() I think the films have led people astray somewhat...
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Wisest of the Noldor
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Hey, children are people too, you know!
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A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
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I ought to know that really, hadn't I?
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
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Not all of them... there are quite a lot of orclings alas
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Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: The Shire (Staffordshire), United Kingdom
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Gandalf always seemed to be careful about claiming any sort of authority over anyone. For example, when he confronted Wormtongue he wasn't very nice to him but he didn't hand out any punishment; that authority belonged to King Theoden.
The only time we see Gandalf punish anyone directly is the occasion when he dismissed Saruman from the Order of Wizards, broke his staff and made him crawl away, humilliated. As Gandalf the White, he had the authority to do that. He had no authority over anyone else. . |
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