Gandalf on Death

Gandalf the White's experience with death told to the young Pippin during the battle of Minas Tirith

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[berserker276]

This makes me unafraid of death, although I'm more afraid of how I'll die.

[mking624]

@WoollyMammoth16 Um, hate to break it to you...but Gandalf is NOT "remembering his old days." This was the description Tolkien uses to describe Frodo's departure to the Grey Havens. Peter Jackson just felt it appropriate for Gandalf to speaks as words of comfort instead. Read the book...and watch the movie extras.

[BadNews4Mojo]

Keep pressing "9".

[mking624]

@jokerman148 No worries. :)

[jokerman148]

@mking624 Ah, I understand now. Sorry for accusing you of something you did not do. You seem to know a lot about the series and movies alike.

[jokerman148]

@proud2bpagan Exactly, but there you're wrong again, Tolkien wasn't trying to represent Gandalf as Jesus. That is just watch readers and watchers alike see Gandalf as. As i've states, Gandalf was not Jesus, and Tolkien wrote what he believed. If he thought Gandalf as a "symbolic" Jesus, he would of that that clear. This movie is made by Peter Jackson, not Tolkien, so different views.

[proud2bpagan]

@jokerman148 i said 'alagory',as in he served as a *symbol*. I wasn't actually concerned w/his lineage,i was speaking as to what Tolkien,a devout Catholic,was attemping to represent.

[mking624]

@jokerman148 I was being a bit harsh because WoollyMammoth16 decided to curse someone out, yelling at someone to "read the book" when his own rude reply was completely incorrect. I have no problem helping people get the right information in a civil way. But there was no excuse for WoollyMammoth16 to treat anyone that way when his own supposed knowledge of the books was not even right...as this was someone who claimed to have that knowledge of the books.

[jokerman148]

@proud2bpagan No, Jesus was God in human form. Gandalf was a Maiar. His culture was the Istari, also known as the Wizards. They were conjoined in a council. The Istari were sent to Middle Earth to oppose Sauron. Gandalf was a wizard, a Maiar, much different then a type of God, or God himself. Sauron was a Maiar aswell.

[jokerman148]

@mking624 Indeed you are correct, but Frodo's departure to the Grey Havens was like death, just peacefully, without dyeing. And you are also correct about Gandalf not remembering his "Old Days". But, you're being a bit harsh, some people only watch the movies.

[rryanus]

@TheEpicBalrog

That's not true, everybody is entitled their own opinion.

[georgebaggy]

@bangsmccoy1989 Great comment