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i cast concussion! [beats you over the head with my staff]
stcrmhond
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we make fun of thorin getting lost in the shire but you know the nazgul also had to keep asking for directions to find bag end so maybe hobbits’ city planning is just wack
The Hobbits have spent generations making their roads complex af to keep Gandalf out
Theory accepted
Which is also why Gandalf is always late
but of course this is the absolute Least successful way to keep GANDALF of all people out, because-
- it’s a challenge
- that WON’T potentially kill him
which is really in short supply lately.
so while the hobbits think they are being hostile. what they are actually saying in Gandalf-speak is “please come back. we love you.”
Gandalf needs environmental enrichment
Gandalf vs Hobbiton Road Planning Dept is a mockumentary style show I find myself DESPERATE to watch
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Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny
A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language.
kaaatebishop
another hilarious example:
mozalieri
my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is
dukeofbookingham
A passage that I was reminded existed when I reread LOTR a few years ago:
‘If Gandalf would go before us with a bright flame, he might melt a path for you,’ said Legolas. […]
‘If Elves could fly over mountains, they might fetch the Sun to save us,’ answered Gandalf. […]
[…]
Legolas watched [Aragorn and Boromir clearing a path] for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. 'The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose and otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow – an Elf.’
With that he sprang forth nimbly, and then Frodo noticed as if for the first time, though he had long known in, that the Elf had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as he always did, and his feet made little imprint in the snow.
‘Farewell!’ he said to Gandalf. 'I go to find the Sun!’ Then swift as a runner over firm sand he shot away, and quickly overtaking the toiling men, with a wave of his hand he passed them, and sped into the distance, and vanished round the rocky turn.
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eh…for this illustration friday just quick sketch of Gandalf :3
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sketching) Gandalf and Gandalf 8) Or Olorin - in Valinor & in Middle-Earth
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You know how Gandalf didn’t want to be one of the Istari?
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The Battle of the five Armies countdown - day 25 of 30
This scene will go like this I feel it water, I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.
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If you’re referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved.
-Gandalf, Fellowship of the Ring
YOU’RE FUCKING RIGHT YOU WERE BARELY INVOLVED, MR. LEAVING THE POOR DWARVES WHENEVER THEY NEED YOU
(via teamfreesexuality)
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enhasa
True story: Gandalf appears at University of Minnesota during exams, going around telling people ominously “You shall not pass.”
Source: facebook.com
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Remember that time Gandalf convinced the whole party to flee so that he could take out the Balrog and not have to share any of the XP? Shows up the next session with fancy new robes and everything. What a jerk.
gentleshark
Standard caster-style play, you need all those new spells