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[–] 58 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Note that these are book ages shown on the movie characters. The movies omit the ~17 year time skip between Frodo's 33rd birthday and his flight from the Shire.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I don't know where on earth you are getting that number for Legolas from. His age is never mentioned anywhere in Tolkien's writing. Most estimates are closer to 500.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Granted this is the movies, but wasn't Legolas at the Last Alliance where Isildur cut the ring of Sauron?

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    Actors that old just aren't put in movies anymore.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Legolas being a full millennia older that Gandalf is always so funny to me

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't he technically be ageless since he's a maiar (spelling?) or does this only account for his physical body's age?

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I had not realized there was such a gap between merry and pippin. Or Frodo and Sam for that matter.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    What do the asterisks represent? Uncertainty in the exact value?

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    I believe so. I'm sure someone might have more info, but I just searched and found that people usually give estimates for both Gandalf and Legolas.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Gandalf is dated from embodiment. Gandalf predates the world.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Yep. By the same token, if you did the same thing again at the end of the main events of the story, Gandalf's age would have to be listed as less than 1 year old. His mortal body perished after defeating the Balrog, but he was reimbodied.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    didn't the 5 wizards loose most of their power and memories from when they where maiar? i guess it could be the age of the mind then... gandalf didn't loose anything when he went from gray to white.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Get those men into politics.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Gandalf: 2019 & 0

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Gandalf was younger than what’sHisFace???

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    That's probably just his length of time on Middle Earth, possibly in a mortal(?) body, given that he has technically existed since before the world, itself, having had a hand in creating it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Oh? Is that why they say Gandalf isn’t a wizard and no one knows what he is? He’s like Yoda in that sense? Or yoda is like him, rather?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Who says he's not a wizard? All the wizards in middle earth are descended Angel-like beings. There's only 5 of them. But they're not just old men who figured out magic. They're a counterbalance to their evil counterparts like Morgoth, Sauron and the Balrogs, who are all effectively fallen Angel Spirit things.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Saw a bunch of memes a few … ago where they were claiming we don’t even know what Gandalf is.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It's possible that those memes were about attempts to map the fellowship to DnD classes, which is (1) something lots of people have tried to do (2) an exercise in futility, because only some bits of DnD have ever been based on LotR. Gandalf is too skilled at fighting to be a typical dnd wizard, and his magic is mostly limited by the rules he was given when sent to middle earth, so we don't see him casting spells the way a game wizard would.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It sounds like you might be confusing him with Tom Bombadil? Tom seems to be the embodiment of the spirit of the land -- he's ancient and is totally unaffected by the Rings of Power, but he's tied to his domain.

    He doesn't appear in the movies, but Treebeard in the extended editions takes on some of his lines and characteristics.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Frodo is older than Boromir?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    And Aragorn and King Theoden were roughly the same age. It's mentioned in the appendices that when they were both youths getting some combat experience, they fought together under King Thengel as allies of Gondor in some of the many battles they had against Mordor. Theoden didn't recognize him because he traveled under a fake name back then, and it wouldn't have occured to Theoden that this random dude (as far he knew) that looked half his age could possibly be his old battle comrade.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yep, hobbit's hit adolescence around 30 and young adulthood by late 40's I believe

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