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Put them together, and you get Gandalf. He found his staff in the ruins of the Stoor community BTW, which I thought was a nice detail. In Old Norse, a real language, "Gandalf" translates to staff elf.
Banned in Baltimore (along with two other films) for a 12-month hiatus by Maryland's State Of Board Censors on November 8, 1962 due to its sexually explicit content. [62] Hideout in the Sun: 1960 1960 Banned in Memphis by the Board of Censors shortly after the film's release in February 1960 due to nudity. [63] Victim: 1961 1961
Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law that is now being challenged by six major book ...
Here is a look at some of the rejected titles, and what their omissions reveal about Florida’s approach to social studies.
Much of the criticism of Harry Potter comes from a small number of evangelical Christians who hold that the series's depiction of witchcraft is dangerous to children. In 1999, Paul Hetrick, spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a US Evangelical Christian group based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, outlined the reasons for his opposition: "[They contain] some powerful and valuable lessons about ...
Gandalf is given several names and epithets in Tolkien's writings. Faramir calls him the Grey Pilgrim, and reports Gandalf as saying, "Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir [a] among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Dwarves, Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I ...
A mural in Jacksonville, Florida. Over 200 people attended a banned-book readout organized by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History at James Weldon Johnson Park near ...
Gandalf described Glorfindel as "one of the mighty of the Firstborn" and "an Elf-lord of a house of princes." When Frodo asks about the protection of Rivendell from Sauron's forces, Gandalf explains: [T 7] In Rivendell there live still some of his chief foes: the Elven-wise, lords of the Eldar from beyond the furthest seas.