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Report: McKellen to reprise Gandalf role
Yahoo ^ | Wednesday April 30 3:16 PM ET

Posted on 04/30/2008 1:56:53 PM PDT by JenB

Ian McKellen will again take up the robes of Gandalf the Wizard in the cinematic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy classic "The Hobbit" a British film magazine reported Wednesday.

But McKellen's publicist warned that final arrangements were yet to be made.

"Of course he wants to do it, but nothing's been agreed or signed," Clair Dobbs said.

(Excerpt) Read more at movies.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies; The Hobbit Hole
KEYWORDS: gandalf; lordoftherings; lotr
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To: Varda

I forgot the symbols in the movie besides the obvious nod to paganism was a peculiar crescent moon and star on the girl as a mark of her status.


61 posted on 05/01/2008 5:30:15 AM PDT by Varda (Let's Go Pens!)
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To: SF Republican
Gandalf being a homo when did this happen?

Oh, he made a comment a year or so ago that he thought Gandalf was a homo, and that he was a former lover of the bad wizard (whatever the heck his name is) and that was the reason for the bad 'blood' between them.

62 posted on 05/01/2008 5:51:23 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
You mean Grandolf the Gay?

LOL

63 posted on 05/01/2008 5:51:51 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: BibChr
Swallowing and not coughing? That's not how I thought of it, but I could be wrong. I don't remember reading any kind of explanation in the books.

I always thought of it as more of a cough--specifically, that he was choking on the word "alone." After he'd been driven from the community of riverfolk, he was by himself for what...500 years? Unless he kept up a constant babble of conversation with himself (which he did, later on, didn't he?) his voice would have become bone-dry and ragged from neglect. And the word "alone" just fits him. My 2c, naturally.

64 posted on 05/01/2008 6:35:40 AM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: MEGoody
Oh, he made a comment a year or so ago that he thought Gandalf was a homo, and that he was a former lover of the bad wizard (whatever the heck his name is) and that was the reason for the bad 'blood' between them.

That's exactly the same as the whole Dumbledore/Grindelwald extra-literary shenanigans, except their bad blood stemmed from something else.

65 posted on 05/01/2008 6:46:13 AM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: grellis

That’s very clever and fitting; but I do remember that Tolkien explained it as a swallowing sound.

If you Google this:

“the name gollum” swallowing

...you’ll see a lot of citations. Check this:

http://greenbooks.theonering.net/questions/files/090100.html


66 posted on 05/01/2008 6:48:12 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: MEGoody

Obviously the man never bothered to read LOTR, or do the least research on what TOLKIEN said about Gandalf : Gandalf is not an elderly man who studied magic for a few decades (as wizards usually are in fantasy literature); he’s an immortal Maiar-and quite literally an angel. Tolkien baldly stated in one of his letters, “Gandalf is an angel”. The maiar (and the even more powerful valar) are to angels what Iluvater (father of light) is to Jehovah. If gays want to project their fantasies onto both historical (Lincoln, too many others to list) and literary figures, I wish they’d at least do so in a way that doesn’t reveal their utter ignorance .


67 posted on 05/01/2008 7:08:46 AM PDT by Verloona Ti
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To: PanzerKardinal

Looks like he was born to play that part too. < /s >


68 posted on 05/02/2008 10:02:24 AM PDT by weegee (Vote Obama 2008 for a bitter America.)
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To: mollynme

I think Shia Leboeuf would be a great young Bilbo.


69 posted on 10/10/2008 3:12:55 AM PDT by Melian
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