Tom Bombadil and Goldberry I recall from LOTR but not The Hobbit. But it's been a while.
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What the hell! I thought they were the same thing! :lol:
Gandalf was one of the Istari.
No. He wrote the Hobbit in 1937 and then later wrote the LOTR's from 1937-1949. It wasn't published until the '50's though. The whole concept started with the Silmarillion in 1914 though.
I meant Aragorn. I always wondered who "sent" the Istari, or Wizards and why are only three of the five ever mentioned?
I thought the movie was good. I just don't know everything about it like you all do.
That was LOTR. The Hobbit did not have any of them...
I meant Aragorn. I always wondered who "sent" the Istari, or Wizards and why are only three of the five ever mentioned?
So, people, what do you think?
What's your feeling about that? eace
No, none of that happened in the Hobbit. Tom Bombadil and his wife are only in the Lord of Ring books and I believe a short story or two. As for Galadriel, she is like the prior characters you mentioned only in the Lord of the Ring books. The only Elves mentioned in the Hobbit are all male.
The Valar sent the Istari.
It's a bit "racial" in terms of allegory (the Dwarves are supposed to be roughly analogous to Medieval Jews, for instance, from what I've heard), but it's not "racist." People are generally defined by what they do, not who they are.
Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast are the three. I always suspected that Galadriel and Elrond were the other two, under deep cover.
Not about all the wanton hate is a state of dismay... and Pippen got lost but didn't run around the room with the ball blazing. Aragorn didn't have a significant conversation... in fact, the king never spoke in the book, let alone have this big glowing kingdom.
I've never even heard of the Silmarillion. Interesting. I didn't realize the books were so old.
No. They were a different species altogether with totally different lifespans (and from different ages).
Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast are the three. I always suspected that Galadriel and Elrond were the other two, under deep cover.
In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Wizards of Middle-earth are a group of beings outwardly resembling Men but possessing much greater physical and mental power. They are also called the Istari (Quenya for "Wise Ones") by the Elves. The Sindarin word is Ithryn (sing. Ithron). They were sent by the Valar to assist the peoples of Middle-earth to contest Sauron.
The wizards were Maiar, spirits of the same order as the Valar, but lesser in power. The first three were known in the Mannish tongues as Saruman "man of skill" (Rohirric), Gandalf "elf of the staff" (northern Men), and Radagast "tender of beasts" (possibly Westron). Tolkien never provided non-Elvish names for the other two; one tradition gives their names in Valinor as Alatar and Pallando, and another as Morinehtar and Rómestámo in Middle-earth. Each wizard had robes of a characteristic colour: white for Saruman (the chief and the most powerful of the five), grey for Gandalf, brown for Radagast, and sea-blue for Alatar and Pallando (known consequently as the Blue Wizards). Gandalf and Saruman both play important roles in The Lord of the Rings, while Radagast appears only briefly. Alatar and Pallando do not feature in the story, as they journeyed far into the east after their arrival in Middle-earth.
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I've never even heard of the Silmarillion. Interesting. I didn't realize the books were so old.
that is two that didn't get what I said. I must have worded it badly... the Dunedain were the high men, those with longer lifespans of the Númenóreans.
The Silmarillion was full of who begat whom and a lot of history of Middle Earth and the vaious species and ages.
Pippen did indeed have a comic scene in the books with the palantir. And the ball did indeed blaze in the books.
And neither of those were the wizards (Istari).
The amount of time and energy he put into creating that world is astonishing. He made up an entire universe with races, languages, Gods, etc.