Interesting Theory

[Elutherian]

I've noticed, along with everyone else, that Gandalf's staff is considerably different in TH than it was in LOTR (talking Gandalf the Grey here). Then I got to looking at our first image of Radagast (the one from the calendar, not the new pic). The staff he has looks oddly similar to Gandalf's from FOTR.

If, and that's a big IF, Radagast dies before this new trilogy ends, and Gandalf's staff suffers some horrible disrepair... could it be possible that Gandalf takes Radagast's staff post-mortem?

 

[stoutfiles]

I'm sure Gandalf went through many staffs.

However, which staff are you talking about? He uses two different staffs in FOTR.

 

[Elutherian]

I can get the 60 years thought though.

 

[Mooseboy018]

He lost his first staff after his battle with Saruman. He has a slightly different staff through the rest of the movie.

 

[Elutherian]

So much for that theory.

 

[SaltedPork]

Does the wizard choose the staff or does the staff choose the wizard? []

 

[DanielLB]

And I have suggested the same in the past. Though, there has also been the suggestion that Gandalf's staff is somewhat living, gradually opening up to it's FOTR appearance.

 

[Faenoriel]

 

[Faenoriel]

It'd be similar to Aragorn keeping and wearing Boromir's... what are they? The things that he wears on his arms to shield them? Anyway Aragorn took them from Boromir when he died and wore them the rest of the trilogy. Very nice thought of Viggo.

 

[DanielLB]

 

[Lacrimae Rerum]

 

[Lily Fairbairn]

And why not? There have been boatloads of pixels spilled over technicalities. [tongue]

 

[DanielLB]

I was nearly there [tongue]

 

[aifeme]

Who makes staffs for Gandalf?[]

 

[painjoiker]

http://espanola2.jhres.schooldesk.net/Portals/Espanola/Jhres/images/School Personnel.jpg

Ok... Now I'm done

 

[DanielLB]

 

[Kangi Ska]

that Radagast is attacked and eaten by his sledge hares.

 

[Bombadil]

When these Dudes arrived coming East
to their Respective regions..

They TOOK classes in Spells,
Wizard Speak
Cojuring,
Invinceability
Etc...
Then only Then
if they kept... their Grades Up
They Passed
and their
Staff is their Diploma.
Hand made in my woodshed in
back of my House in the OldForest

GOLDBERRY varished each one and
Sealed it with An Immortality Kiss.

(Which explains what happened the Blue Wizards..
they were more Jocks
than Students and were sent Back
to the University of Valinor on Football ScholarSHIPs?)

Bom

 

[There&ThereAgain]

delicious when they're stewed.

 

[Valandil ed Imladris]

Gandalf runs a major wood manfactory in mirkwood. That's what the Dol Guldur plot is about: He wants to make an outpost out of Sauron's fortress.