Actually, Stephen Colbert 'jokes' that Gandalf was a "Founding Father" ... at the same time as Colbert quotes a very-serious truth the fictional 'wizard' (a former- & returning Majar of Valinor) tells the hobbit Frodo as they sit & think at a stop on Frodo's journey to Mount Doom:
Frodo tells Gandalf that he wishes he had never lived in such times; Gandalf replies, "So do all people who live to see such times. But that is not for you to decide; all for you to decide is what to do with the time that is given."'His name' (below-hyperlinked to my post on MiddleEarth-names & -places etc.) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Gandalf” is built on “Wand (Staff, Cane) Elf” (name of a Dwarf in The Völuspá (a 13th-century Scandinavian manuscript, part of The Poetic Edda)).
Maybe that's why Gandalf always has his staff with him (even after Sauron steals it from him & sends him to the roof of Orthanc, whence Gandalf escapes on the back of an eagle—apparently without retrieving his staff)—because the staff is a part of him (like your hair or breath or teeth are 'a part of you').
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
him why he's not"—Won't you show me
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
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