How old is gandalf lotr

Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. Morgan Morgan The ent must be older than Gandalf or at least Gandalf's human form. TK - Letter "Treebeard is a character in my story, not me; and though he has a great memory and some earthy wisdom, he is not one of the Wise, and there is quite a lot he does not know or understand".

Gandalf does age during his days in middle earth — user Show 2 more comments. Age as we perceive it doesn't exist for Gandalf. Rocinante Donquixote 17 4 4 bronze badges.

Shevliaskovic Shevliaskovic Didn't Illuvatar intervene directly to return Gandalf to Middle Earth after his mortal form perished with the Balrog? Die as we know it? Probably not, but his body in Middle Earth can be destroyed. As above it took an outside force to send him back to finish the job. If you're asking how long he was in Middle-earth, the answer is "roughly 2, years".

Wad Cheber Wad Cheber 65k 58 58 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. The question is entirely answerable. The Maia Olorin predates earthly time, so can be called 'as old as the world'; Gandalf is very specifically the name for Olorin's embodied form which walked Middle Earth to oppose Sauron. Gandalf and Olorin are not interchangeable; one is a very distinct portion of the other's existence.

You've missed the point; Gandalf is faaaar older than the world. Unanswerably older. It's also worth noting that he never appeared young; none of the Istari did. They came therefore in the shape of Men, though they were never young and aged only slowly This 'aging' appears to have been related to the trials and difficulties they had to endure, rather than to time. Werrf Werrf Listen closely in TFotR - Bilbo gives us a rough time frame of around the s: " - very good year.

Almost as old as I am! Rocinante Donquixote Rocinante Donquixote 17 4 4 bronze badges. This is just before Bilbo's th birthday, but Bilbo is a hobbit and an exceptionally long lived one.

This seems fairly similar to this answer , but with a different number for how old a man usually lives. However, there's a good indication of exactly how long Gandalf has been living in the world of Men thanks to a single line of dialogue from The Two Towers. At that point, the powerful wizard is leaving Edoras to seek out the Rohirrim prior to an epic showdown with Saruman's army before the walls of Helm's Deep.

As he prepares to ride out, Gandalf utters the following line: " lives of men I've walked this earth, and now I have no time. All different races and backgrounds within the world of Men live for different periods of time. However, taking what Gandalf says at face value given his current location and the fact that he has spent much of his physical life in Middle-earth suggests that Gandalf is talking about normal Men here, such as Gondorians and the Rohirrim.

The average age of Men is approximately eighty years old, which gives an excellent indication of how old Gandalf is in his physical form. I find alot of my information, and became the Loremaster that i am, from a certain book. It's called "Characters from Tolkien " and it has a sketchy picture of Gandalf on the cover.

Im sure they sell it at Barnse and Noble, or another major bookseller. They have a map of all of Arda , and illistrations of all of the major events of Arda, from the fasioning of the Great Lamps, to the Flight of the Noldor , to the Destruction of Mordor. Last edited by a moderator: Jan 20, Beorn In the shadows. You must log in or register to reply here.

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