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Old 19th November 2007, 12:18 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Question on Gandalf

Oh, I'm not saying that Jackson didn't make a good fist of the attempt to film an unfilmable book...just that if you attempt to analyse characters in the book by their actions in the film, you're going to run into problems.
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For a all powerful wizard, from what I gathered from the movies
This is a good example - only by reading the books do you realise that this impression, given by the film, is so far from the book's slow reveal of the power and weaknesses of the Istari...
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