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- From: nightsng@anarky.tch.org (Nightsong)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Bombadil etc.
- Message-ID: <3TuqwB5w165w@anarky.tch.org>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 01:57:13 PST
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- > Are you in fact convinced that the Olorin (Maia) and Gandalf were
- > one and the same? I'm not. True, it would be convincing in some ways,
- > but what about the other Istari? Why would Saruman be chosen as head
- > of the White Council, and not mentioned otherwise? I admit that I
- > go back and forth on the issue of whether Gandalf-Mithrandir was
- > the Olorin, but today, I don't think so.
- >
-
- Again, although I am just (again) quoting the "encyclopaedia" of tolkien,
- it says that he was in fact Olo'rin in the Undying Lands. However, the
- author could also be completely wrong. Myself, I have absolutely no
- idea -- there are convincing arguments for both
-