Who would have won in a fight?

>>138866341Gandalf killed a Balrog using his will only, after falling for 3 days into a lake that freezes souls.

>>138866185>OH>MY>GOD>ARE YOU SERIOUS?!

>>138866141>lol pineconesAnd Harry drops dead.

>>138866141Gandalf would just set a firework off in Harry's face

>>138866141dumbledore would have beaten eragon

Isn't Gandalf immortal or smn?

>Ian McKellen declined to play Dumbledore because he was tired of being a wizard>instead we got some shitty Irish drunkI'm still mad.

>>138866846Yes, Gandalf is literally a minor angel.

>literal immortal angel who doesn't just TKO everyone instantly because God wants to have the mortals overcome evil on their ownor>a teenager with magic want, that isn't very good with it

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>>138866895>H.P. - Dumbledore, sir, what did you do before coming here?>D. - [Turnes around] It was a different time, Potter. [Lord of the rings starts].

>>138866982If he is immortal, how come the Balrog killed him?

>>138866181This. Not only is Harry a pussy and Gandalf forbidden from fighting, but they don't even exist in each other's universes.

Run, you fools.

>>138866341If you want a sense of how powerful Gandalf is look at how powerful Sauron is in his prime. Harry Poofer doesnt stand a chance.

>>138867042the balrog only destroyed his physical shell dumdum

Gandalf is a humble fellow and would intentionally die due to some divine plan of Eru or something.He wouldn't fuck up a good guy like Harry.

>>138867088>the balrog only destroyed his physical bodyHuh... That's what killing usually means.

He would destroy both of them.

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>>138867042it's not exactly fair to say he got killed- his spirit left his body and goes to talk to God/Eru, Eru decides since he's the only one of the Istari (the five wizards are angels god sent to guide men, saruman and radagast are two of the others) who's actually doing his job, he'll let him use more of his power this time around. So he sends his spirit back to his body which is still on top of the mountain (people apparently get confused by the movie, he chases the balrog all the way to the top of the mountains then kills him) where gwaihir, the king eagle, takes him to lothlorien. they give him his new robes and staff, tell him he just missed the fellowship, so he decides that since Frodo and Sam are doing their own thing, he'll go find the three hunters and help them to rally the rest of Middle-Earthso it's more like he has an out of body experience than actually dies, but either way 'gandalf' is the angelic spirit, not merely the physical form taken

>"Harry, your wand is broken">wand explodes taking Harry's entire arm with it

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>>138867274>where gwaihir, the king eagle, takes him to lothlorienBut I thought the eagles were assholes who don't care about anything? :)

>>138866215are you retarded?

Accio Ring

>>138867453You better shut your fucking mouth Ornella.

>>138867428no they help out a lot, part of the thing people miss is they aren't all-powerful. they can be killed pretty easily with arrows, and they can't carry people very far- when gwaihir saves gandalf from orthanc, he can barely carry him over to edoras, he has to get a horse (where he gets shadowfax) for the rest of the waythe few times they do pop up are about the most they can do to help, saving people in very desperate situations or killing the enemies they can (battle of five armies, nazgul/fell beasts)

>>138866141It's not apparent to movie watchers, but Gandalf and Saruman aren't old men with magical powers. They're basically archangels sent by the gods the universe to help the lower races organize against evil. But they're prevented from using much of their real power in the mortal world. This is why Gandalf was so afraid to be offered the ring--if it took hold of him he'd prison rape Saruon and then enslave the world for the ring's use in his place. The god races in the Lord of the Rings world hate actually intervening in IRL problems, but when they do someone sneezes and a continent disappears.Now that I type that I wonder how much magic Gandalf could actually use in the mortal world vs Harry. Is Harry actually able to use more tricks vs a depowered Gandalf?

>>138867425mods

was Gandalf ever young or was he just assigned a body of an old man that no longer ages any further? are non-elves even aware of him being an immortal being?

>>138866846Yes he's an angel

Is it ever explained exactly how Gandalf fought the Balrog? Like, did he do it within the limits imposed on him in Middle Earth, or did he go full super saiyan? Did he kill it physically or mentally?

>>138867856they always had the bodies of old men, so men would listen to their advice. I don't think anyone other than elves know he's an angel, other than balrogs (who are fallen angels). Humans etc prob just figure he's a wizard and that's that, they live for a long time

>>138867856>was Gandalf ever young or was he just assigned a body of an old man that no longer ages any further?he got sent over on a ship after the war of the last alliance, his body is deceptive in that it appears to be an old man, but he manages feats of strength and durability far beyond it. are non-elves even aware of him being an immortal being?no. I mean, sauron and other valar/maiar were because they are too, but that's it

>>138866141Gandalf would just cast himself out of the dullest franchise in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.>a-at least the books were good though"No!" The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

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Holy shit, I always thought this was some bluepilled wokeshit that Jackson stuffed into the movie for (((brownie points))) but I skimmed the books and it's in there too. Was Tolkien a proto-tumblrina or what? How did this garbage fly in the 1950s?

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>>138868239>wokeshitImagine thinking a warrior-maiden storyline is toxic feminism.

>>138868239it was just some banter against an arrogant assholethe hobbit's blade did the actual work

>>138866141Gandolf would have pushed harry's shit in Harry was accidentally powerful. Gandolf was intentionally powerful.

>>138868073I read all the HP books recently for the first time. I thought the concept/world/plot/etc was all pretty good but her actual writing style is fanfic-tier terrible. I suddenly remembered when I was a little kid and my mom (who did some editing in the business world) was telling me the mistakes that beginners make when they don't know how to write well. Every paragraph something would just jump off the page at me and I'd think "holy shit she was right."

>>138868073>That feel when you're well enough read to recognize that graphic is a good troll but not enough to fully understand the depth of its trolling

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While Gandalf is an immortal angel, HP can teleport and shoot actual magic missiles

>>138867061If Gandalf is forbidden from fighting why does he fight in every movie?

>>138868742HP is mediocre and jobs to top-tier wizards all over the books though

>>138866141youtube.com/watch?v=kWS93ZuEKuM>magic staff malfunctionslol what now old man? He can't even fight a troll lmao

>>138868781Slaying a few orcs is permitted. Gandalf never uses his full power.

>Gandals is like le super powerful, he's an immortal angel! >barely do any magic in the movie Yeah, he can light his stick, awesome powers, lol

>>138866998that would be better that actual movies

>>138868781he can only use 10% of his powerafter he returned as Gandalf the White he could use 15%

>>138866341Harry wouldn't use avada kedavra because he's a fucking pussy faggot

>>138869002And Harry needs a convenient plot device to overcome his enemies time after time. Wands need to have a fucking conscience of their own just so Voldemort's spell would redirect back at him instead of frying Harry's ass

>>138868970But he attacked Sam in the first one when he was spying. And in the last movie he give the Stewart a good bashing that might've given him a concussion, maybe even possibly killing him.

>>138868908Oh god it's so much worse than I remembered

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>>138869078Where did you pull that load of bullshit from.

>>138867178Ya when you're a mortal being you fucking faggot. Youre not smart or clever

>>138869192>not reading HoME vol.13

animu sorcerers are much more powerful than western jobbers

>>138868908what the fuck was that

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>>138869387Not even the worst part of that film

>>138868633lol yeah I'm in the same boat. Camus is great, the Myth of Sisyphus got me into the "philosophy" shit. for my birthday my girlfriend got me another Camus and a couple Dostoevsky's, including Notes from Underground which I read and thought was absolute kino

>>138869198Fuck off retard. Of course subhuman shit like you has no soul, but humans do.

>>138869458The Plague is Camus best work

>>138867471You shouldn't have come back.

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>>138867984I think he physically killed it by fighting nonstop for a few days or something iirc, ended back up a mountain

>>138867984The Balrog was severely weakened because they fell into a magical lake that extinguished his flames.

>>138869702Wow, user. You really btfoed him here.

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>>138869128Harry about to die at the beggining>oh my mother used the power of love so I don't dieHarry about to die in Philosopher's Stone>oh I disintegrate you if I touch you that's niceHarry about to die in The Chamber of Secrets>oh Fawkes brought me this dope-ass sword so I can a basilisk and it left its tooth so I can destroy your horcrux, nothing personal TomHarry and Sirius about to die from dementors' attack>oh thankfully I went back in time and prevented it by creating a patronus above my power levelHarry about to die from reborn Voldie>oh thankfully J.K.Rowling made sure our wands are made from a feather of the same phoenix and now Priori Incantatem is introduced so no worries here and my parents are also here, dope, I can't die thanks to plot armorHarry about to die in the Ministry of Magic>oh G̶a̶n̶d̶a̶l̶f̶ Dumbledore came to rescue me as usual, coolHarry observes a whole pack of Death Eaters with Malfoy surround Dumbledore>thank God they can't see me thanks to plot-cloakThe Deathly Hallows is just a shit show, I can't even list all the things that could've gone wrong but didn't.

>>138867086how powerful is he? the only thing i know is he invented dragons, can shapeshift and got his finger cut

>>138870125he caused destruction of the greatest civilisation of men by telling them about his bf

>>138870125He said Numenor should go and invade where God lives so they can steal immortality and they actually did it the absolute madmen

Harry Potter is a trust-fund baby that was grandfather’d into an ultra-prestigious private school that caters to race-realists because he knew the headmaster

>>138870192what a faggot, i'm glad they threw him into an active volcano

>>138870192>>138870288ok, so he's jewish. How does that help against offensive HP spells?

>>138870288>tfw Ar-Pharazon got imprisoned in cave under Aman untill the end of the world>tfw he is now immortal in the Undying Landsironing

>>138870288I read that he lost his body in the process. Then what was the thing that got its fingers cut off?

>>138870508he got another body, but was so weakened could only be ugly

>>138870588Was Sauron an incel?

>>138870631I don't think he was ever interested in womenonce he met most beautiful woman on the world and his first thought was that Melkor-sama would be happy with him if he captured her

>>138870631More like he has daddy issues

>>138870631he was a volcel fanook

>>138866141Harry would win if he wasn't a pussy. If he was Gandalf would gut him.

>>138868551What are some examples of these mistakes?

>>138866181this and harry is necessary to kill voldemort

>>138866895>BILBO BAGGINS DO NOT TAKE ME FOR SOME CONJURER OF CHEAP TRICKS>Gandalf said calmly

>>138870707>I don't think he was ever interested in womenHe's coping.

>>138870465>so he's Jewish.KEK

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>>138871079hmmhe was way too happy with thought of Melkor having sex with qtcuck?

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>>138871012Is he though?

>>138871138Just a good friend.

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>>138866499fucking metal

>>138866215

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>>138871228>replying to shitty b8

>>138869865Was the lake magic? I don't remember it being described that way in the book, but I've never read the expanded lore.

>>138871398It's described as being as cold as death or something like that, it's presumably magic if it's so cold it nearly stops Gandalf's heart and can put out Balrog flames

>gandalf 1v1s a balrog and barely comes away with a win>feanor rapes morgoths forces so hard they need 3 balrogs just to stop himan autistic elf would beat them both

>>138871455>it's so cold it nearly stops Gandalf's heartit's called hypothermia>can put out Balrog flameswas Balrog's fire special? if not then it's not magic

>>138871506Only if it's a First Age Elf, they were absolutely broken>>138871533Maiar don't suffer physical issues like hypothermia or cancer or a common cold

>>138868239It's a Macbeth reference, you uncultured retard.

>>138866141

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>>138871603who cares?

>>138868239Glorfindel foretold that the Witch-King would not be killed by a man, and he wasn't. It's funny.

>>138866141Gandalf fucking stomps. It's not even a debate.

>>138871674the whole scene is funny>witch-king arrives>all Gondorians are afraid except king Earnur>his horse gets scared and runs away>WK laughs that Earnur is scared pussy>sees Glorfindel>gets scared and rides away

>>138871151I guess Gandalf could harvest Harry to dispel a horcrux but that doesn't seem like his style

>>138866998Fucking kino.

>>138871533>was Balrog's fire special?What other kind of fire could it possibly be? Or are you saying he was sweating flammable oil and some asshole set him on fire?

>>138871765Horcruxes are a meme. Just obliviate Voldemort. Horcruxes are the retarded evil genii type of immortality that doesn't protect your body or your mind.

>>138866141Harry sucks at every magic except dueling shit or whatever and Dumblesneed would hold back against Sneed Potter

>138871846the origin of the fire may be magical, while the fire themselves aren't different from average one

>>138871846I kind of assumed it was a natural process. It'd be retarded if it wasn't.

How come Saruman didn't come back?

>>138872146they didn't let him into Valinor

>>138870891The most glaring one by far is clumsy overuse of descriptions/adverbs. And worse, the same ones over and over.>He said with a furrow brow>She said shrilly>She cried>He said heatedly>He said calmly>He said with a sneer>His lip curled>He said bravely>He shouted forcefullyThat could all be in one paragraph. You can take any conversation involving the same 2-3 people in any of the seven books and it'll be nearly identical. It's like Rowling is using a fill-in-the-blank template to write characters talking to each other.

>>138872146He gets to wander around as a listless spirit for the rest of eternity in the ether

>>138866499You realize how stupid that sounds when you say it outloud?

>>138866141>a god vs some kid with a scar

>>138872236how come the valar get to make and destroy their own bodies at will but the maiar cant? is body making really hard or something

>>138871571Wasn't Galadriel a first age elf? And she was wearing a goddamn ring. How come she wouldn't leave her gay little forest and fuck up Sauron's shit? I didn't think elves had the same power limiting issues that wizards did.Also, male elves in their final life cycle are able to grow beards. Does that mean Galadriel has a huge golden bush? And are we sure the hairs she gave Gimli were from her head?

>>138871571>Maiar don't suffer physical issues like hypothermia or cancer or a common coldBut they ARE able to catch COVID-19. So please don't be an idiot and wear your mask, and remember to practice social distancing when going on epic quests.

>>138871533It isn't normal fire. It is the Flame of Udûn. That is both the fire as well as the Balrog itself, as they are one and the same. It is a paradox - fire in the service of darkness. The Balrog is a corrupted spirit of fire or a spirit of corrupted fire, as in the naming, there is no difference. Dragons in Middle Earth wield a flame of the same sort. That's why everyone touched by it came away not only scarred, but darkened of spirit.

>>138866141Falfdalf would've killed Harry in an instant.

>>138872407That's right, actually. Covid-19 comes from the same magical universe as elves and wizards.

>>138872239Nah that shits cool as hell and one of the best parts of the books

>>138872350>is body making really hard or somethingIt's basically impossible, it's why Melkor and Sauron had to corrupt things rather than make them from scratch as they would have liked. The whole autistic shitfight started because Melkor decided he knew better than Eru and could make things way better if only he had the ability to do so

>>138867765I just had an idea for a more-Amazon version of Amazon's loosely-based-on-Tolkien show: Gandalf is send back back to present-day Earth to rally the free peoples against Trump, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, homophobia, fat shaming, ageism, and cyberbullying.How many years before someone makes this?

>>138866141Harry potter. he could use one spell to kill him.Gandalf is a shitty wizard that just uses a sword and his staff as a light. And he leads everyone into danger and he just fucking sucks.

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>>138868239>I am NormanI thought her name was Eyowhen

>>138872711Don't deadname him like that dude

>>138872495i never really thought about the difficulty before. crazy melkor could never figure it out after millennia given that aule basically makes the dwarves one night in his basement

>>138866895He knew he'd be too busy raping those underage boys to get any acting done.

>>138866141why would harry fight dumbeldore?

>potter kneels and starts sucking, because he mistakes gandalf with dumbledore>gandalf gets heart attack, because he didn't had sex since second era

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>>138867256...sorry

Ignoring the fact they're both top lads and wouldn't fight eachother. We never really see Gandalf at full power. Is he powerful enough to block/deflect a Harry Potter killing curse? Can't he just blow Harry or his Wand up with a tap of his staff? Magic works completely different in HP and LOTR. Bad thread. A better thread would be about a buddy wizard-cop movie starring those two.

>>138872239It was a time before garbage anime made everything edgy and cringe.

>>138866141Gandalf is not humannot even close

In LOTR, Gandalf is basically an angel (the word in the lore is "Maiar", but it's essentially the same thing), as old as the universe itself. He, Saruman, and the other wizards are on the same "level" in terms of Tolkien's hierarchy as Sauron, the entire War of the Ring is very much Gandalf vs Sauron. Gandalf vs any mortal, or really anything lower on the totem pole than him, isn't a remotely fair fight. The Balrog is able to almost "kill" him because it's also one of the Maiar.>>138873057>A better thread would be about a buddy wizard-cop movie starring those two.Would it be set in England or in Middle-Earth?

>>138873410If the wizards are so goddamn wise and powerful, why does Saruman turn into Hitler, Radagast doesn't do shit, and the two blue wizards literally vanish?

>>138873410Gandalf would probably be too OP for England, Harry could probably handle himself in Middle Earth decently well provided he doesn't run into a Balrog or a native Wizard

>>138873473Saruman knows that fighting against Sauron is a folly, so he tries to make his own ring to have a chanceto get time he pretends to be on Sauron side and contacts him by palantir, which isn't good for mental health

>>138873473The Maiar are wise and powerful but they can be corrupted. Sauron himself is one of the Maiar, he turned evil way back in the beginning and followed Melkor. They're also capable of being selfish and/or dicks (hence the Blue Wizards).

>>138873410>Would it be set in England or in Middle-Earth?England. Kind of like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

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Why was Denethor nerfed so hard in the movies? In the books he battled wills with Sauron daily so he could use a palantir to scope out the rest of the middle earth. The reason he was so fucked up was because a lifetime of fighting the dark lord's mental power had broken his spirit.

>>138873843Probably time restrictions. It's the same way that Boromir kind of comes across as an impatient asshole in the theatrical release if you haven't read the books and know just how long Gondor has been fighting.

>>138873800Magic is how they beat Napoleon.

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>>138874044I know it wasn't the intent, but it's kind of funny that even in an alternate history setting that goes to painstaking length to create a magic system that makes sense, the British version of Waterloo is *still* that they won it by themselves.

>>138873568Saruman may have been in the wrong in hindsight but he reasonably brought up a valid argument.Nobody was anticipating a couple of midgets and a crackhead to actually save the world.

>>138874112>Saruman may have been in the wrong in hindsight but he reasonably brought up a valid argument.He really didn't. Saruman has been around since the world was created, he's well aware what happened to Sauron's old boss, who was way more powerful than Sauron. The other Valar kicked his ass and sent him to the Phantom Zone. He's also well aware of what happened to the Numenorians, Aragorn's ancestors, who were so powerful they beat Sauron with barely a fight and then tried to invade Valinor. The result was pic related.Tolkien was super-Catholic, so it makes sense in his worldview, but Saruman and Sauron are basically both fallen angels who side with the devil (Melkor/Morgoth) despite knowing full well that they're going to lose eventually.

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>>138872239>stupidits supposed to be an epic

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>>138873800>>138874044Shouldnt the french have better mages? Maybe not as good as italian or bohemian ones but...

>>138874380Been forever since I read it but I thought the point was everyone thought "practical magic" had died out, so Strange and Norrell would be the only ones who could do it. It would be weird if there was a society of English magicians who only studied theory and thought magic was extinct when just across the channel there were actual magicians doing their thing.

>>138866141>who would have won in a fight?the death star

>>138866241>Gandalf the Gray is level 39>Harry Potter is level 6yeah but harry is an auror and gandalf basically a support hero

>>138868781Gandalf is a Maiar, essentially a minor god of Arda, in which Middle-Earth exists. He only fights against other supernatural forces that mortals stand no chance against (Balrog, Witch-King, etc.) This is also why he came back from the dead. Sauron is also a Maiar, the most powerful one, as are Balrogs.

>>138874599Is the Witch King really that powerful, practically speaking? I thought his greatest effect was instilling irrational insane fear and despair in everyone around him?

>>138874599why didn't a balrog just steal the ring?

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>>138874599>>138874686No, the Witch-King isn't that powerful, the movies exaggerate the shit out of him for dramatic effect. Aragorn was able to hold him and the rest of the Nazgul off alone on Weathertop, there's no way he would have been able to fight even a single one of the Maiar.

>>138874576This is true, Harry is more of a DPS class

>>138874686He's not a god, just the Nazgul that Sauron granted the most power to out of all the Nine. Gandalf the white actually failed to beat him, that's how strong Sauron is.

>>138874756It probably would have just corrupted the balrog into serving Sauron sooner or later.>>138874825>Gandalf the white actually failed to beat him, that's how strong Sauron is.That was a deleted scene that contradicts everything in the books and Tolkien's own letters so I think we can discount it as non-canon bullshit.

>>138874767The Nazgul were men who Sauron tainted with his Power, their strength is tied to his. As the movies progress, Sauron gets stronger, so the Ringwraiths get stronger.

>>138872239It's fiction, you mongoloid. How do you expect it to sound out of context?

>>138871850This. Horcruxes basically just gave him multiple lifes. Like a cat just kill it enough times and it's gone.

>>138869109What would he use though?

>>138868742People in the potter universe have little deeper understanding of their magic though. It’s why they continually get btfo by things like “old magic” like the love spell HPs mom put on him by sacrificing her life for his. Even voldy doesn’t really understand it or know how to defeat it. All the magic in HP has to be read from a book and used formulaically. Gandalf wrecks Harry no doubt, a more interesting question is Gandalf the grey vs Dumblefag.

>>138868239Being obsessed with politics is a fucking mental illness holy shit

>>138875022>Gandalf wrecks Harry no doubt, a more interesting question is Gandalf the grey vs Dumblefag.I think Gandalf still wrecks Dumbledore, but Dumbledore is able to understand why he's getting his ass kicked. As opposed to 99% of wizards who would be like "wait why is that pinecone a lightning bolt grenade he doesn't even have a wand this is against the rules"

>>138875022Gandalf wouldn't necessarily lose a deathmatch but he could fail at fulfilling his purpose. You get to Gandalf by killing his loved ones.

>>138875140Dumbledore would get that while he's capable of wielding magic, Gandalf *is* magic.

>>138875140>>138875166But Gandalf in the human world wouldn't be allowed to go super saiyan, whereas Dumbledore would.Wait, I'm 37, have a professional job, and a girlfriend, and I'm debating fantasy wizard power levels on 4chan. Goddammit moot.

name one spell Gandalf uses other than the blinding light from 2 and talking to a moth

>>138874686>>138874767In the movie he nearly rocks Gandalf’s shit, but is that really accurate to the books? I thought supposedly Gandalf was exponentially more powerful than the witch king due to Gandalf being a Maiar

>>138875320telling the moria balrog that he shall not pass which spares the fellowship and neither of them end up passing that bridge