Gandalfa

Amazon is working on a new Tolkien-themed show. Naturally, the demands for a female Gandalf have begun to crop up.

10 comments:

Assistant Village Idiot said...

I have no objection to people writing epic fantasy with female wizards and heroic characters. Go right ahead.

Changing what someone else has written, because you decided you wanted to piggyback on their fame? that I object to.

Anonymous said...

Stick with the Entwives

Texan99 said...

Galadriel wasn't enough? Can anyone even remember her husband's name?

Ymar Sakar said...

Elron somebody.

Their family trees are very funny

Texan99 said...

You need to brush up on your Middle Earth fanaticism! Elrond was Rivendell, Galadriel and Cereborn, or something like that, were Lorien. Cerewhoever didn't have much of a role.

Grim said...

It happens that I remember Celeborn’s name, but it doesn’t take away from your point. Galadriel was the greatest of the elves in Middle Earth, greater than Glorfindel, one whose only fear of striving with Sauron lay in how she would be changed by her victory.

Larry said...

Celeborn’s most important statement, in my opinion:

“Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.”

Anonymous said...

And Celeborn's warning plays out in the end of Return of the King, albeit with a touch of humor as well as heroism.

LittleRed1

ymarsakar said...

You need to brush up on your Middle Earth fanaticism!

Too busy learning about Source's/Almighty's/God's Creation for that.

ymarsakar said...

I'm reading the lore of human creation right now, and boy is it different from the accepted scientific consensus story.