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I was there gandalf Continue The Lord of the Rings Part I. The Fellowship of the Ring quotes from the film Rivendell, Many Encounters This wound will never fully heal. He will carry it for the rest of his life. (Gandalf) And yet, to come so far still bearing the ring, the Hobbit showed extraordinary resilience to his evil. (Elrond) It's a burden he should never have carried. We can't ask for more Frodo. (Gandalf) Gandalf! The ring can't stay here. This danger belongs to all of Middle-earth. Now they have to decide how to end it. The time of the elves is over. My people are leaving these shores. Who are you going to look at when we leave? Dwarves? They hide in the mountains in search of wealth. They don't care about other people's troubles. (Elrond) It's in men that we have to accommodate our hope. (Gandalf) Men? Men are weak. [...] It is because of men the ring survives. I was there. I was there 3,000 years ago... when Isildur took the Ring. I was there the day the power of men failed. I brought Isildur to the heart of Mount Doom, where the Ring was forged, in one place where it could have been destroyed! It was supposed to end that day, but evil was allowed to endure. Isildur kept the ring. The line of kings is broken. There is no power left in the human world. They are scattered, divided, without a leader. (Elrond) There is someone who could unite them, one who could bring back the throne of Gondor. (Gandalf) He turned down that path a long time ago. He chose exile. (Elrond) Why are you afraid of the past? You are The heir to Isildur, not Isildur himself. You have nothing to do with his fate. (Arwen) The same blood flows in my veins. Same weakness. (Aragorn) Your time will come. You will face the same evil and you will defeat it. The shadow does not hold power yet Aragorn, not above you, nor above me . (Arwen) I would rather share one life with you and then face all the ages of this world alone. I choose death. (Arwen) All the images I've viewed from The Lord of the Rings: The Official Film Guide and Premiere/Studio magasines and properties of the New Line Cinema Fictional Character, created by J.R. Tolkien for other purposes, see Gandalf (disambiguation). GandalfTolkien characterFirst appearanceThe Hobbit (1937)The last appearance Of Certain Tales (1980)In-universe informationAliasesesSee NamesRaceMaiaAffiliationCompany of RingWeapon Glamdring Naria Wizard of Staff Gandalf is the protagonist of the novels J. R. R. Tolkien Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. He is a magician, one of the Order of Ita, and the leader and mentor of the Brotherhood of the Ring. Tolkien took the name Gandalf from the Old Orm Dvergatal Catalogue in Vulusp. As a wizard and bearer of the Ring of Power, Gandalf has great power but works mostly by encouraging and persuading. He outlines how Gray, with great knowledge, and travel travel always focused on the mission to fight the Dark Lord Sauron. He is associated with fire, his Ring of The Narya, the Ring of Fire, and he both charms in fireworks to entertain the Hobbits of the Shire, and in great need uses fire as a weapon. As one of Mayar he is an immortal spirit, but being in the physical body of Middle-earth, he can be killed in battle as he is a balrog from Moriah. He is sent back to Middle-earth to complete his mission, now as Gandalf White and leader Ofi. Tolkien once described Gandalf as an angel embodied; later, he and other scholars compared Gandalf to the Scandinavian god Odin in his Stranger look. Others described Gandalf as a guide who helps the main character, comparable to the Kumov Sybil, who helped Aeneus in Virgil's Andeida, or Virgil himself in Dante's Inferno; and as a Christ-figure, a prophet. The names Certh rune No. 19 G, used by Gandalf as a personal sign or seal of Tolkien's Etymology, were given the name Gandalf from Gandolph, a dwarf in Dvergatal Wusp, a list of dwarf names. In old Scandinavian, the name means elf staff. This is reflected in his name Targyun, which says what the Human Person means in Khozdul, one of Tolkien's invented languages. (T1) In the universe, the names of Gandalf are given several names and nicknames in Tolkien's writings. Gandalf himself says: Many of them are my names in many countries. Mitrandir among the elves, Tarcon for dwarves, Olerin I was in his youth in the West, which is forgotten, in the south of Inkanus, in North Gandalf; To the East I go not. (T2) In an early handwritten version of The Hobbit, it is called Bladortin. Each Wizard is distinguished by the color of his cloak. For most of its manifestation as a master, Gandalf's cloak is gray, hence the names of Gandalf Gray, and Greyhame. Mitrandir is a name in Sindarin meaning Grey Pilgrim or Grey Wanderer. In the middle of The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf became head of the Order of the Wizards and renamed Gandalf White. This change of status (and clothing) introduces another name for the master: the White Rider. However, the characters who say Ndesh still refer to him as Mitrandir. At times in The Lord of the Rings, other characters address Gandalf's disparaging nicknames: Stormcrow, L'thspell (Ill-news in old English), and Grey Fool. (T1) Tolkien's characteristics describe Gandalf as the last of the wizards to appear on Middle-earth, one who seems least, less tall than the others, and looks older, gray-haired and gray-haired, and leaning on smaller. (T1) However, Elf Thurdan, who met him upon arrival, nevertheless considered him the greatest spirit and the wisest and gave him the Elven Ring of Power called the Narya, the Ring of Fire containing a red stone for his help and comfort. Tolkien clearly binds Gandalf with the fire element later in essay: Warm and greedy was his spirit (and he was reinforced by the ring of Narya) because he was the enemy of Sauron, confronting a fire that devours and wastes with fire that ignites, and succours in wanhope and distress; but his joy, and his rapid anger, were veiled in gray clothing as ashes, so that only those who knew him well saw the flame that was inside. Cheerful he might be, and kind to the young and simple, but quickly at times sharp speech and a rebuke of stupidity; but he was not proud and did not aspire to power or praise... He mostly hiked relentlessly, relying on a walk, and so he was called The Elf of the Sticks among the people of North Gandalf. For they considered him (albeit by mistake) the elven kind, for he occasionally performed miracles among them, loving especially the beauty of fire; and yet such wonders he twool mostly for fun and delight, and did not wish that anyone should keep him at bay or take his advice out of fear. ... However, he said that at the end of the task for which he came he was badly hurt, and was killed, and being sent back from death for a short time was dressed then in white, and became a shining flame (still veiled still to save in great need). (T1) A fictional biography of Valinor in Valinore, Gandalf was called Ellerin. (T1) He was one of the majors of Valinor, in particular the people of Vala Manwe; and, as they say, the wisest of the mayar. He was also closely associated with two other Valar: Irmo, in the gardens of which he lived, and Nienne, the patron saint of mercy, who gave him custody. When Valar decided to send the Order of the Wizards (Historic) across the Great Sea to Middle-earth to counsel and assist all who opposed Sauron, Olerin was offered Manva. Olerin initially pleaded for an apology because he was afraid of Sauron and did not have the strength to confront him, but Manveh replied that this was all the more reason for him to leave. As one of the Mayars, Gandalf was not a mortal, but an angelic being adjacent to the human form. As one of these spirits, Olerin was in the service of the Creator (Era Ilyuvatar) and the Secret Fire of the Creator. Together with another Mayar, who entered the world as the Five Wizards, he took the concrete form of an elderly old man as a sign of his humility. The role of the wizards was to advise and advise, but never to try to match Sauron's power with his own, and we hope that the kings and lords of Middle-earth will be more receptive to the advice of the humble old man than the more glorious form that gives them direct commands. (T1) The Middle-earth of Ithi arrived in Middle-earth separately, at the beginning of the third century; Gandalf was the last to leave for Mitlond Harbour. He seemed the oldest and least tall, but Cordan Shipwright felt he was the greatest in their first meeting in Havana, and gave him Narya, the Ring of Fire. Saruman chief Wizard, learned of the gift and resented it. Gandalf hid the ring well, and it was not widely known until he left with other ring bearers at the end of the third century that he, not Kyrdan, was the holder of the third elven ring.