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Why does Gandalf look like an old man?

Why does Gandalf look like an old man?

As one of the Maiar, Gandalf was not a mortal Man but an angelic being who had taken human form. Along with the other Maiar who entered into the world as the five Wizards, he took on the specific form of an aged old man as a sign of his humility.

Why was Gandalf reborn as white?

Gandalf was carried to Caras Galadhon in Lothlórien, where he was healed, given a new staff, and clothed in white, and thus became Gandalf the White.

Are Gandalf the GREY and Gandalf the White the same person?

Despite his background, Gandalf the Grey chose to roam Middle-Earth in his battered Grey Robes and kept his true powers hidden. He returned in The Two Towers as Gandalf the White, a similar but seemingly more powerful being. It was that resurrection that Gandalf transformed from Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White.

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Did Gandalf really die in The Hobbit?

Gandalf really ‘died’, and was changed: for that seems to me the only real cheating, to represent anything that can be called ‘death’ as making no difference. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 156: To Robert Murray, SJ (draft).

Why did Gandalf go back to become Gandalf again?

The ‘wizards’, as such, had failed; or if you like: the crisis had become too grave and needed an enhancement of power. So Gandalf sacrificed himself, was accepted, and enhanced, and returned. ‘Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf.’

Are Gandalf and Gandalf the Grey the same person?

The key is that Gandalf the White and Gandalf the Grey aren’t quite the same person. The Gandalf that Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli knew died, and the being that came back was similar, but not quite exactly the same; as Tolkien writes in Letter 156:

What was the old man’s name in The Hobbit?

‘Gandalf,’ the old man repeated, as if recalling from old memory a long disused word. ‘Yes, that was the name. I was Gandalf.’