#gandalf lord of the rings

[vanglaggle]

quick gandalf study :-)

do not repost.

[shinraalpha]

i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

[spale-vosver]

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

[flockofteeth]

incredible. LOTR fandom truly NEVER stops giving

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[vanyamire]

some quick lotr studies :]

prints

[eldhuug]

You shall not fucking pass on his gig

[bloodraven55]

never forget when saruman literally told gandalf "you've been smoking too much weed bro"

[dudja]

[cameron4818]

Gandalf: So I’ve developed an elaborate plan to save middle earth from darkness

Elrond: does it-

Gandalf: it involves hobbits again yeah

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[wizardarchives]

Gandalf and Bilbo by Tim Kirk (1974)

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Isildur's Bane

Durin's Bane

Gandalf's Bane

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[shmnstqrage]

Gandalf Big Naturals my beloved