![]() That quest was one he had helped to organize as a means to take Smaug away as a potential ally for Sauron. He could move the Council at need, as when they put forth their power to drive the Necromancer - Sauron in disguise - from the fortress of Dol Guldur in Mirkwood, a business which took him away from the dwarves’ quest in The Hobbit. But Gandalf refused the position in favor of independence. If Lady Galadriel of Lorien had her way, Gandalf would have been the head of the White Council formed to unite the West against Sauron. He became a good friend to the Elves and to hobbits, while with Men he could be warm and irascible by turns. While Saruman the White settled in Orthanc, Radagast the Brown in Rhosgobel, and the two Blue Wizards journeyed beyond reach into the East, Gandalf the Grey (as the Men of Middle-earth named him) wandered throughout the West, where the Elves and the descendants of Númenor opposed to Sauron were strongest. But the ring, and the power he still possessed, were kept veiled in weathered gray robes. Yet Círdan the shipwright, who greeted Olórin upon his arrival, perceived him as the greatest of the Istari and gave him the Elven Ring of Fire to aid him in his labors. Thus ordered, he arrived at the shores of the Grey Havens as the third of the Istari (wizards) in the Third Age, appearing the smallest and most aged of them. But in Manwë’s eyes, that was all the more reason Olórin should go. He wasn’t up to the task, he insisted, and he feared Sauron. He was proposed for the task by Manwë, wisest of the Valar, though Olórin initially begged not to be sent. In Unfinished Tales, a collection of essays and story fragments Tolkien left behind, it was the Maia Olórin who became incarnated as Gandalf. ![]() Possessed of free will, they could also be tempted away from their task. They would be subject to weariness, hunger, injury, and the risk of death. So embodied, they would lose a great deal of their spiritual power they were not meant to exercise force nor to coerce anyone to act. The emissaries would be Maia, clothed in the bodies of Men advanced in age but possessed of great physical and mental ability. It was the persistence of Sauron’s power into the Third Age that made the Valar, a higher order of spirits analogous to archangels, wish to send emissaries to aid and inspire the Free Peoples of Arda (Earth) who resisted evil. Gandalf, like all the five wizards of Middle-earth, was a Maia, an angelic spirit of the same order as Sauron. The second video is just to highlight the light so it is shot in the dark.Runtime 178 minutes Who Is Gandalf in 'The Lord of the Rings'? In the first video the button is very sensitive and the light flickers a lot, but after clicking the button a few times it got better. (Please excuse the messy balcony, I haven't had time for spring cleaning yet.) ![]() Here is a bunch of pictures including the shipping box plus a couple of videos. But since I do not have the talent to do something like that I will keep it as is. If some one like N2D or DrMalcolm buys it I would guess they would repaint it. The paint quality is ok but could be better. What really surprised me was the weight of the staff, it is really heavy. So there are no seams anywhere on the staff, the only thing different from what we see in the films is the light button which is pretty well camouflaged and the bottom of the staff has a rubber "foot" that can be removed to put in the batteries. ![]() Okay, first off, the staff comes in one piece, there is no assembly required.īut that makes the box the staff comes in pretty huge, I measured it and it is 215x20x20 cm that is about 7'.65"x7.8"x7.8" if my converter is correct. ![]()
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